Vocabulary

• restaurant chain: A group of restaurants owned by the same company and operating under the same brand name.
• certain foods: Specific types of food, often referring to those with particular characteristics or effects.
• figure out: To understand the behavior of someone
• fell ill: To become sick; to start suffering from a disease.
• due to: Because of; owing to
• foot the bill: To pay a bill
• have to: Must do
• as a whole: Considering everything together; in general.
• figure: To appear in a game, play or event
• material: Cloth; fabric
• properly: In an appropriate or correct manner
• evidence: Factual proof that helps to establish the truth
• positive: Showing agreement or support for something
• completely: In every way or as much as possible
• severe: Very bad; harsh
• amount: Quantity of something
• crack: Attempt to achieve a goal or objective
• increase: To make or become larger in size or amount
• financial: Involving money
• conference: Series of lectures held as an event
• court: To act in a way to shows you wish to marry someone
• settle: To make (a child, etc.) feel calm/ready for sleep
• form: Sports team or person's current winning record
• contact: Touching or feeling something
• drastic: Serious, severe or extreme
• fatal: Causing death; having very bad consequences
• survive: To continue to live despite illness or trouble
• due: When something is required or expected
• insurance: Protection against loss/injury/death you pay for
• mystery: Quality of being strange and not understood
• press: Machine using pressure to shape, flatten, squeeze
• responsibility: Job, task or thing you are expected to look after
• fall: Season after summer and before winter; Autumn
• leave: To go away from; depart
• investigate: To try to find out facts; to carry out research
• lapse: (Of license, etc.) to stop being valid; expire
• scandal: Unacceptable/immoral event causing public shock
• promise: To say you will certainly do something
• public: Owned by the government
• liver: Organ from animals served as food
• forensic: Establishing facts or evidence in investigations
• question: To ask for or try to get information
• liability: Something that is owed to someone else, e.g. debt
• restaurant: Place where you can order, buy and eat a meal
• cover: To record a different version of another song
• case: Container used to carry things, e.g. clothes
• mayor: Head of a town or city government
• toxin: Any poisonous substance
• fallout: Radioactive particles after a nuclear explosion
• lab: Short for 'laboratory'