Vocabulary

• have to: Must do
• feel sick: To experience a sensation of nausea or illness
• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• next to: Being located along side another
• lead to: To result in some action
• go back to: To return to a starting point
• with it: Intelligent, alert, and up-to-date.
• look for: To try to find a thing or person that is lost
• of late: Recently; lately.
• at least: As a minimum
• as long as: For the period that; provided that.
• used to: Did regularly before, but don't do now
• number of people: The total count of individuals within a group or gathering.
• clear up: To tidy things away, e.g. dirty dishes after meal
• talking about: To discuss a particular topic.
• have against: Hold a grudge or dislike towards someone.
• ultimately: Done or considered as the final and most important
• crucial: Extremely important or necessary
• susceptible: Likely to fall prey to, be drawn to or influenced
• immune: Having a special protection from, e.g. the law
• situation: Place, position or area that something is in
• compromise: To weaken your position or views
• period: Set amount of time during which events take place
• contagious: Able to be passed on by touch
• realize: To become aware of or understand mentally
• average: Total of numbers divided by the number of items
• urge: A strong desire for something
• strain: To remove the water from (food) using a colander
• describe: To tell the appearance, sound, smell of something
• disease: Illness that affects a person, animal, or plant
• mortality: Quality or state of being capable of dying
• current: Electricity flowing through wires
• extent: Point, level or limit to which something reaches
• frankly: Speaking honestly and directly
• spread: A big meal, often laid out as a buffet
• brand: A mark burned on an animal to show who owns it
• calm: Without wind or storm; quiet; peaceful
• expert: Skillful person with special knowledge
• numb: Unable to feel a body part due to cold or illness
• vigilant: Being watchful; careful to monitor events
• predict: To guess or estimate what will or might happen
• occur: To come to pass or to happen
• reach: To come to or arrive at a goal or destination
• pneumonia: Serious illness affecting the lungs and breathing
• similar: Nearly the same; alike
• physically: In a manner related to the body
• cause: Belief, goal or organization that people support
• congress: Meeting of elected or appointed representatives
• population: Number of people who live in a country, area etc.
• vaccine: Shot using weak disease cells to stop same disease
• fatal: Causing death; having very bad consequences
• compare: To consider how similar and different things are
• rate: To assess something or consider its qualities
• lead: Wire for electricity, computer, etc.; cable
• cure: Something that solves a problem or makes it better
• social: Involving activity with people, e.g. in free time
• scary: Causing fear; frightening
• coronavirus: Any of a group of RNA viruses that cause a variety of diseases in humans and other animals.
• defense: Argument in support of something
• shield: A family's coat of arms or insignia
• fever: A high body temperature, indicating illness
• natural: Being as one would expect; being usual or normal
• protect: To defend someone or something from harm or danger
• virus: File secretly put on computers to cause harm
• backdrop: Contextual meaning or background
• fatality: Death resulting from an accident or a disaster
• person: Man, woman or child
• difference: A thing or issue that people do not agree about
• immunity: State of not being able to catch a disease
• reproduction: Act or process of producing a copy of something
• infect: To introduce a computer virus to
• flu: Illness causing headache, fever etc.
• incubation: Development in a particular environment
• naught: Quantity of no importance, nonexistence