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vocabulary:

• retail: the activity of selling goods to the public
• justify: to give or to be a good reason for
  Do real changes take place in the brain with age to justify such grumbling?
• grumble: to complain about someone or something in an annoying way
  She spent the evening grumbling to me about her job.
• incident: an event which is either unpleasant or unusual
  how quickly you can react to fast-moving incidents on the road.
• inevitable: certain to happen and unable to be avoided or prevented
  the inevitable: something that is certain to happen and cannot be prevented
  Eventually the inevitable happened and he had a heart attack.
  the near-inevitable slowing with age also partly explains why soccer players are seen as old om their thirties, while golf professionals are still in their prime at that age.
• prime: main or most important; of the best quality; the period in your life when you are most active or successful
  The is a dancer in her prime.
• temporal lobes
  the parts of the brain known as the temporal lobes control new learning.
• vulnerable: able to be easily hurt, influenced or attacked
  i felt very vulnerable, standing there without any clothes on.
• juggle: to throw several objects up into the air, and then catch and throw them up repeatedly so that one or more stays in the air, usually in order to entertain people; to succeed in arranging your life so that you have tome to involve yourself in two or more different activities or groups of people
  Working memory is the brain's blackboard, where we juggle from moment to moment the things we have to keep in mind when solving problems, planning tasks and generally organising our day-to-day life.
• Absent-mindedness: describe someone who often forgets things or does not pay aatention ot what is happening near them because they are thing about other things
  Absent-mindedness occurs at all ages because of imperfections in the working memory system. 
• creep: to move slowly, quietly and carefully, usually in order to avoid being noticed
  creep up: if the value or amount of something creeps up, it slowly increases.
  Such absent-mindedness tends to creep up on us as we age.
• chalk: (noun.)a type of soft white rock or a stick of this rock or a similar substance used for writing or drawing.
  chalk: (verb.) to write something with a pieve of chalk
  It occurs because our plans and intentions, which are chalked up on the mental blackboard, are easily wiped out.
• stray: stray things have moved apart from similar things and are not in their expected place
  stray dog
• preoccupation: an idea or subject that someone things about most of the time.
  Stress and preoccupation can also cause such absent-mindedness.
• bleak: depressing
  the news, however, is not all bleak.
• superior: better
  the mentally active professors in their sixties and early seventies were superior to their contemporaries.
• contemporary: a person who is of the same age as you
  she didnt mix with her contemporaries, preferring the company of older people.  
• sprout: to produce leaves or to begin to grow
  he has shown that animals kept in stimulating environments show sprouting and lengthening of the connecting nerve fibres in their brains.
• beneficial: helpful, useful
  a stay in the country will be beneficial to his health
• contestant: someone who competes in a contest
• apparatus: a set of equipment or a structured system
  the divers checked their breathing apparatus.
• intrigue: to interest someone
  Such findings lead to the intriguing possibility of mental fitness training.
• faculty: capability
  just as people go bald or grey at different rates, so the same is true for their mental faculties.