Vocabulary

• in the world: Used to emphasize a question expressing surprise, confusion, or disbelief.
• on to: Toward something; forward
• at least: As a minimum
• on the surface: Appearing to be true or real until examined more closely.
• instead of: When one thing is replaced by another
• along with: In addition to; together with.
• have to: Must do
• literally: In a literal manner or sense; exactly as stated.
• incredible: Very good; amazing
• immune: Having a special protection from, e.g. the law
• pandemic: (of a disease) existing in almost all of an area or in almost all of a group of people, animals, or plants
• realize: To become aware of or understand mentally
• typically: In a normal or usual way
• exposure: Allowing light through a cameras lens onto film
• disease: Illness that affects a person, animal, or plant
• protein: Group of molecules made from amino acids
• prevent: To stop something from happening or existing
• spike: The top point in a graph
• accessible: Able to be entered, reached or used
• foundation: Base or important starting point
• cause: Belief, goal or organization that people support
• surface: To give (road) a top layer
• require: To demand that someone does something
• collaboration: Act of working with someone to complete a task
• vaccine: Shot using weak disease cells to stop same disease
• optimistic: Tending to believe the future will be good
• create: To make, cause, or bring into existence
• volume: Number or amount of something e.g. sales
• risk: To do something potentially dangerous or foolish
• shape: The outer form of something, what it looks like
• produce: Fresh foods such as fruits and vegetables
• pathogen: Any disease-producing agent
• expose: To make visible, without covering or protection
• coronavirus: Any of a group of RNA viruses that cause a variety of diseases in humans and other animals.
• invention: Something new that is different from other things
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• promise: To say you will certainly do something
• system: Set of organized, planned ideas that work together
• multiply: To increase in number by reproducing/having babies
• urgent: Very important and needing immediate attention
• piece: A counter in a board game
• receptor: A nerve ending that changes stimuli into impulses
• virus: File secretly put on computers to cause harm
• great: Very good; better than before
• cell: Smallest unit of living things in biology
• make: To arrange or prepare something e.g. dinner
• fast: In a way that is difficult to move or change
• part: Division of a book
• world: All the humans, events, activities on the earth
• code: To express information in a series of numbers
• inject: To add or put in more (money, energy etc.)
• body: The physical structure of a person or animal.
• dna: Chemical in living cells with genetic information