Vocabulary

• dry out: To remove moisture from something; to become completely dry.
• in writing: Expressed or presented in written form, rather than spoken.
• evidence of: Facts, objects, or signs that make you believe that something is true.
• at least: As a minimum
• breathe in: To inhale; to take air into the lungs.
• help out: To assist someone
• get here: To arrive at a specific location.
• at some point: At an unspecified time, usually in the future.
• wake up: To stop sleeping
• look for: To try to find a thing or person that is lost
• on top of that: In addition to something already mentioned; furthermore.
• burn up: To consume all of something, e.g. fuel, energy
• build up: To increase the amount; collect something
• fill up
• with it: Intelligent, alert, and up-to-date.
• as a result of: Because of something; owing to.
• spread around: To distribute something to a wide area or to many people.
• instead of: When one thing is replaced by another
• on earth: Used to emphasize a question expressing surprise or anger.
• come together: To assemble or unite; to start working together.
• based on: To use something as the foundation or starting point for something else.
• shy of: A little less than; just under a certain amount.
• come after: To follow someone in order to threaten them
• go out: To leave a building (e.g. a house)
• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• literally: In a literal manner or sense; exactly as stated.
• overwhelmed: To defeat something or someone completely
• incredible: Very good; amazing
• immune: Having a special protection from, e.g. the law
• critical: Making a negative judgment of something
• panic: Overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
• tackle: To start working on a difficult problem
• immediately: Without any delay; straight away
• interfere: To get involved in something not your business
• disease: Illness that affects a person, animal, or plant
• complex: Group of buildings all used for the same purpose
• spread: A big meal, often laid out as a buffet
• research: To study in order to discover new ideas and facts
• sheer: To suddenly turn or change direction
• fluid: A material that can easily flow, e.g. water
• grind: To break (coffee, etc.) into tiny bits with machine
• exclusively: For the use of only one person or group
• brew: A beer; a drink of beer
• grasp: Person's control over something
• vaccine: Shot using weak disease cells to stop same disease
• survive: To continue to live despite illness or trouble
• create: To make, cause, or bring into existence
• eradicate: To remove or destroy something completely
• humanity: Quality of being understanding or sympathetic
• haunt: To remain in the mind causing worry, sadness, pain
• tissue: Substance formed by cells of living thing; flesh
• major: High-ranking officer in the army
• infection: (Computers) Having a computer virus
• abusive: Saying or doing bad or cruel things to others
• mild: Gentle in nature or behavior
• leave: To go away from; depart
• enlightenment: State of having a lot of knowledge and wisdom
• activate: To cause to happen; cause a chemical reaction
• century: Period of 100 years
• science: Study of the physical world, based on facts
• system: Set of organized, planned ideas that work together
• invade: To enter something causing a harmful result
• terrible: Very bad; horrible
• worse: Comparative of 'bad'; more bad
• virus: File secretly put on computers to cause harm
• compel: To force someone to do something
• cellular: Concerning a cell of a living thing
• hard: Difficult to do; difficult to understand
• immunity: State of not being able to catch a disease
• scourge: Person or thing causing great suffering
• world: All the humans, events, activities on the earth
• transmission: Part of car including gears affecting speed of car
• real: Actually existing or happening, not imagined
• case: Container used to carry things, e.g. clothes
• powder: Dry material made up of small powder-like pieces
• life: All the living things e.g. animals, plants, humans
• rash: Without much thought; done or acting too quickly
• human: A person; a man, woman or child
• fight: To argue or quarrel with someone about something
• dangerous: Involving the chance of hurt or damage; risky
• light: To cause something to burn; put a burning match to
• molecular: About or caused by molecules
• smallpox: Contagious disease with pimples that leave scars
• carnage: Destruction and devastation involving human deaths
• slay: To kill violently
• pus: Yellow fluid produced from inflamed wound, etc.
• humankind: All of the living human inhabitants of the earth