Power Words

2. A connection between two people or things.
4. (in behavior) To look or concentrate intently on some particular point or thing.
5. Any event or situation that draws someone’s attention away from whatever had been his or her main focus. Distractions can be external events, such as sounds or sights; or they can be internal events, such as thoughts or emotions.
6. A learning disability that makes it hard for an individual to spell, quickly recognized combinations of written letters as particular words, and trouble figuring out the sound that should be associated with a particular combination of letters.
8. The phenomenon of focusing mental resources on a specific object or event.
11. Something that plays a role in a particular condition or event; a contributor.
12. An electronic device that contains books, reports or other types of text-based materials.
13. In psychology, the belief about and attitude toward a situation that influences behavior. For instance, holding a mindset that stress may be beneficial can help improve performance under pressure.
15. A group of interconnected people or things. (v.) The act of connecting with other people who work in a given area or do similar thing (such as artists, business leaders or medical-support groups), often by going to gatherings where such people would be expected, and then chatting them up. (n. networking)

1. An organized collection of related data.
3. Someone who studies the structure or function of the brain and other parts of the nervous system.
7. Something that represents another thing, often as an ideal version of it.
8. Short for application, or a computer program designed for a specific task
9. On the internet. (adj.) A term for what can be found or accessed on the internet.
10. An outbreak of disease that affects a large proportion of the population across a country or the world.
14. An adjective indicating that something has been developed numerically on a computer or on some other electronic device, based on a binary system