Vocabulary

• around the world: In or to many countries.
• increased risk: A greater chance of something harmful or dangerous happening.
• on sunday: Every Sunday; each Sunday.
• together with: In addition to; along with.
• think about: To consider something carefully.
• have to: Must do
• in areas: Located or occurring within specific regions or locations.
• 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
• trigger: Lever on a gun that you pull to fire
• compromise: To weaken your position or views
• contagious: Able to be passed on by touch
• coincidence: Occurrence by chance, not design or planned
• develop: To explain something in steps and in detail
• resilient: Recovering quickly from something bad
• strain: To remove the water from (food) using a colander
• identify: To indicate who or what someone or something is
• respiratory: (Medical) concerning breathing
• roughly: Approximately; (of numbers) about; around
• spread: A big meal, often laid out as a buffet
• ability: The power, resources or skill to do something
• increase: To make or become larger in size or amount
• protein: Group of molecules made from amino acids
• underestimate: To make too low a guess of something's size, value
• spike: The top point in a graph
• affect: To cause a change in something else
• concern: To be about a particular topic
• suspect: Person thought to have committed a crime
• prompt: Message on a computer requiring attention
• adapt: To change something for a different function
• response: Something said/written as an answer to something
• dominant: The strongest; most powerful
• behavior: The way a person or thing acts; manner
• cause: Belief, goal or organization that people support
• form: Sports team or person's current winning record
• sequence: Part of a movie showing one part of the story
• population: Number of people who live in a country, area etc.
• rapidly: With great speed; quickly
• vaccine: Shot using weak disease cells to stop same disease
• compare: To consider how similar and different things are
• widespread: Happening or existing in many places
• declare: To make a statement in a strong and confident way
• risk: To do something potentially dangerous or foolish
• prior: Existing or coming earlier in time
• respond: To answer something or someone
• agency: Business that provides some service for others
• infection: (Computers) Having a computer virus
• race: Speed contest between people, animals or vehicles
• detect: To discover or identify the presence of something
• diagnose: To determine the cause of an illness or problem
• place: To put someone in a particular type of situation
• sound: Sensible, dependable and reliable
• fully: Completely or entirely
• tweak: To make a small change or adjustment
• ban: To make something illegal or not allowed
• rise: To wake up and get out of bed after sleeping
• grow: To get bigger and more mature; make plants do this
• include: To make someone, something part of a group
• world: All the humans, events, activities on the earth
• entry: Act of entering a room, building, party
• human: A person; a man, woman or child
• vaccination: Type of injection to prevent getting a disease
• barren: (Of a woman) not able to have children
• evade: To avoid being captured; avoid answering