Dopamine/Snap

a type of neurotransmitter. Your body makes it, and your nervous system uses it to send messages between nerve cells. That's why it's sometimes called a chemical messenger. Dopamine plays a role in how we feel pleasure. It's a big part of our unique human ability to think and plan

• Dopamine

• on a whim

• tweak

• hack (n)

• hack (v)

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

​connected with relationships between people

___ skills

• eerily

• interpersonal

• Birds of a feather flock together

• One bad apple spoils the bunch

• snap

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

​in a strange, mysterious and frightening way

The streets are ______ quiet here at night.

• eerily

• interpersonal

• Birds of a feather flock together

• One bad apple spoils the bunch

• snap

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

to make slight changes to a machine, system, etc. to improve it

I think you'll have to ___ these figures a little before you show them to the boss.//to pull or twist something suddenly

• Dopamine

• on a whim

• tweak

• hack (n)

• hack (v)

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

(North American English, informal) to drive a taxi//(usually go ___ing)

(especially British English)to ride a horse for pleasure//can/can’t ___ it

(informal)to be able/not able to manage in a particular situation

Lots of people leave this job because they can't ___ it.//(computing) to work together informally and often quickly with other people to create a program using different technologies

We spent the morning ___ing around with HTML and building web pages.//to kick something roughly or without control

He ___ed the ball away.//to hit and cut somebody/something in a rough, heavy way//

• Dopamine

• on a whim

• tweak

• hack (n)

• hack (v)

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

a strategy or technique that you use in order to manage an activity in a more efficient way//​an ordinary horse or one that can be hired(disapproving) a person who does the hard and often boring work for an organization, especially a politician//(disapproving) a writer, especially of newspaper articles, who does a lot of low quality work and does not get paid much

• Dopamine

• on a whim

• tweak

• hack (n)

• hack (v)

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

​(saying) people of the same sort (are found together)

• eerily

• interpersonal

• Birds of a feather flock together

• One bad apple spoils the bunch

• snap

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

one bad apple spoils the (whole) barrel//proverb It only takes one person, thing, element, etc., to ruin the entire group, situation, project, etc. Refers to the fact that a rotting apple can cause other apples in close proximity to begin to rot as well.

• eerily

• interpersonal

• Birds of a feather flock together

• One bad apple spoils the bunch

• snap

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

to suddenly be unable to control your feelings any longer because the situation has become too difficult//___ (at somebody/something) to try to bite somebody/something (SYNONYM nip) The dogs snarled and ___ped at our heels.//to speak or say something in an impatient, usually angry, voice//to move, or to move something, into a particular position quickly, especially with a sudden sharp noise//to break something suddenly with a sharp noise; to be broken in this way

___ something The wind had ___ped the tree in two.

• eerily

• interpersonal

• Birds of a feather flock together

• One bad apple spoils the bunch

• snap

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CCSS.L.5.5C

​a sudden wish to do or have something, especially when it is something unusual or unnecessary

We bought the house ___.

• Dopamine

• on a whim

• tweak

• hack (n)

• hack (v)

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4