Vocabulary

• rather than: More exactly; more correctly
• think on: To consider something carefully before making a decision.
• in areas: Located or occurring within specific regions or locations.
• potential: Capable of happening or becoming reality
• devastating: To cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
• epidemic: Disease that spreads quickly affecting many
• advantage: Thing making the chance of success higher
• audience: Group of people attending a play, movie etc.
• exact: Completely correct; accurate; specific
• amount: Quantity of something
• failure: When things go wrong; lack of function
• ability: The power, resources or skill to do something
• military: Army or armed forces
• concern: To be about a particular topic
• dramatically: In a sudden or extreme manner
• catastrophe: Very bad disaster causing much suffering, etc.
• expertise: The special knowledge that an expert has
• huge: Very very large
• modest: Not large in amount, size, etc.; moderate
• compare: To consider how similar and different things are
• secure: To get or achieve something with certainty
• advance: Forward movement by an army
• budget: Amount of money planned to be spent
• reason: To think and make conclusions in a logical manner
• risk: To do something potentially dangerous or foolish
• invest: To use resources to build for the future
• wealth: Amount of money or possessions you own, e.g. large
• reserve: To arrange for a room or table be kept for you
• system: Set of organized, planned ideas that work together
• harm: To damage, injure, or hurt someone or something
• germ: Tiny organism that can cause sickness and disease
• worldwide: Spanning or extending throughout the entire world
• infectious: Capable of transmitting disease to others
• virus: File secretly put on computers to cause harm
• great: Very good; better than before
• prepare: To make something ready for use
• applaud: To clap the hands together to express support
• fast: In a way that is difficult to move or change
• part: Division of a book
• start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
• finally: used especially at the beginning of a sentence to introduce the last point or idea
• world: All the humans, events, activities on the earth
• train: Line of people, animals moving the same direction
• problem: Something difficult to deal with or causes trouble
• diagnostic: Concerning finding out the cause of a problem
• flu: Illness causing headache, fever etc.
• logistic: Concerning planning and organizing a large project
• logo: Name, symbol or picture which represents a company
• whoosh: Sound made when something moves quickly past you