| Maternity leave | a period of time when a woman temporarily leaves her job to have a baby |
| content | information, images, video, etc. that are included as part of something such as a website |
| auditory memory | The ability to retain and recall that which is heard. |
| associate | to link; to group together |
| early adopter | a person who starts using a product or technology as soon as it becomes available |
| Doomscrolling | the activity of spending a lot of time looking at your phone or computer and reading bad or negative news stories |
| doomed | likely to have an unfortunate and inescapable outcome; ill-fated. |
| overloaded | given too much to cope with |
| oversee | to supervise |
| counterintuitive | goes against your gut feeling or common sense |
| overwhelmed | overpowered |
| Core | fundamental |
| tenuous | weak,vague |
| embrace | accept readily |
| To foresee | to see or know ahead of time |
| a burden | A hardship; something difficult to bear |
| dismiss | put away from consideration; reject |
| kick out | to force someone to leave a place or organization |
| put to use | to apply, to utilize |
| hotshot employee | a worker who is very successful |
| an exaggeration | saying that something is better/worse/more/less than it really is |
| live up to | reach an expected standard |
| rack up | to accumulate |
| toy with | to play with, not take seriously |
| walk somebody through | to slowly and carefully explain to someone how to do something |
| be stretched thin | not have sufficient resources to carry out tasks, have too much work |
| Float around | to move without a specific purpose |
| Be side-lined | to stop someone taking an active and important part in something |
| credentials | written evidence showing that a person has a right to a certain position or authority |
| intimidated by | frightened or nervous because you are not confident in a situation |
| Back up | to support |
| for kicks | for fun |
