Vocabulary

• formerly known as: Used to indicate a previous name of a person or place.
• used to: Did regularly before, but don't do now
• rely on: To depend on someone or something
• essential: Extremely or most important and necessary
• immune: Having a special protection from, e.g. the law
• physical: Health check at the doctors' or hospital
• common: Area in a city or town that is open to everyone
• strain: To remove the water from (food) using a colander
• disease: Illness that affects a person, animal, or plant
• previous: Existing or happening before the present time
• spread: A big meal, often laid out as a buffet
• initial: First letter of your given name
• tongue: Long, thin part of (e.g. shoe under the laces)
• concern: To be about a particular topic
• suspect: Person thought to have committed a crime
• crowd: To force too many things, people into
• direct: To tell someone in a very clear way to do something
• response: Something said/written as an answer to something
• register: To record your name on an official list; sign up
• contact: Touching or feeling something
• rapidly: With great speed; quickly
• illness: Unhealthy condition of the mind or body
• coordinate: To match styles or colors that go well together
• democratic: (Of government) giving the people power, a vote
• declare: To make a statement in a strong and confident way
• outbreak: Sudden occurrence of illness, discontent etc.
• rely: Depend on with full trust or confidence
• moment: Very short or brief period of time
• public: Owned by the government
• fever: A high body temperature, indicating illness
• abdomen: The part of the body where the stomach is
• transmit: To broadcast by using signals to a radio/TV
• virus: File secretly put on computers to cause harm
• person: Man, woman or child
• include: To make someone, something part of a group
• start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
• world: All the humans, events, activities on the earth
• widely: To a large degree; over a large range
• clear: Empty; without anything in it or on it
• dangerous: Involving the chance of hurt or damage; risky
• happen: To take place or occur
• international: Of or relating to several countries
• people: Persons sharing culture, country, background, etc.
• tell: To (strongly) advise a person to do something
• infect: To introduce a computer virus to
• flu: Illness causing headache, fever etc.
• health: (Person, company) being in a good condition; well
• neighbor: Person who lives, or is near, you
• terrify: To scare or greatly frighten
• plaid: Cloth with colored yarns in a crossbarred pattern