Vocabulary

• at least: As a minimum
• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• per year: For each year; annually.
• spill over: To flow over the edge of a container.
• think of: To look on as (being something specific); consider
• in fact: Used to emphasize the truth of a statement, especially one that contrasts with or contradicts something else.
• in the world: Used to emphasize a question expressing surprise, confusion, disbelief
• in the future: At a later time; in times to come.
• come back: To reply to someone, often forcefully
• for example: As an illustration or instance.
• as well as: Also; in addition to
• move around: To change position or location; to go from place to place.
• get a sense: To understand or perceive something intuitively.
• in the middle of: In the central part or point of something.
• play out: To use up or exhaust
• by itself: Alone; without help or assistance.
• reduce the risk: To lessen the probability of something dangerous or harmful occurring.
• approach: To get close to reaching something or somewhere
• pandemic: (of a disease) existing in almost all of an area or in almost all of a group of people, animals, or plants
• stretch: To make your arm, leg muscles long to ease them
• period: Set amount of time during which events take place
• determine: To control exactly how something will be or act
• experience: Thing a person has done or that happened to them
• tend: To move or act in a certain manner
• random: Chosen, done without a particular plan or pattern
• interact: To talk or do things with each other
• catastrophic: Causing a lot of damage or suffering
• disease: Illness that affects a person, animal, or plant
• represent: To depict art objects, figures, scenes; to portray
• roughly: Approximately; (of numbers) about; around
• spread: A big meal, often laid out as a buffet
• exist: To be present, alive or real
• prime: To get a person ready for; prepare someone
• estimate: Guess or calculation of cost, size or value
• ignore: To not listen to, look at, or pay attention to
• emerge: To rise or appear out of some background
• virtual: Existing only on the internet or on a computer
• contact: Touching or feeling something
• population: Number of people who live in a country, area etc.
• generate: To create or be produced or bring into existence
• optimistic: Tending to believe the future will be good
• prophecy: Statement that something will happen in the future
• risk: To do something potentially dangerous or foolish
• destructive: Causing a very large amount of damage
• ground: To break (coffee, etc.) into tiny bits with machine
• isolation: Condition of being in a distinct, separate place
• defeat: To beat an enemy, team, disease
• likelihood: Chance that something might happen
• outbreak: Sudden occurrence of illness, discontent etc.
• pathogen: Any disease-producing agent
• spill: Accident when someone falls
• trace: To make an outline to determine a shape
• haven: Place where people can feel safe and happy
• pessimistic: Having negative feelings about the future
• multiply: To increase in number by reproducing/having babies
• pick: Sharp tool used for breaking the ground
• change: To exchange one set of clothes for another
• microbe: Very small, microscopic, living thing
• surprisingly: In an unexpected manner; to an unexpected degree
• future: Time that is to come after the present
• immunity: State of not being able to catch a disease
• percentage: Part of a whole divided into hundredths
• world: All the humans, events, activities on the earth
• globe: A round object, e.g. like the earth; sphere
• reservoir: A lake storing water for use by the community
• travel: To go to a place that is far away
• live: To be alive
• happen: To take place or occur
• people: Persons sharing culture, country, background, etc.
• long: Person's name
• swine: A pig
• flu: Illness causing headache, fever etc.