Vocabulary

• based on: To use something as the foundation or starting point for something else.
• pick it up: To lift something from a surface.
• in the meantime: During the time between two events; meanwhile.
• ultimately: Done or considered as the final and most important
• specific: Precise; particular; just about that thing
• period: Set amount of time during which events take place
• typically: In a normal or usual way
• severe: Very bad; harsh
• develop: To explain something in steps and in detail
• priority: Thing that is more important/urgent than others
• identify: To indicate who or what someone or something is
• disease: Illness that affects a person, animal, or plant
• mortality: Quality or state of being capable of dying
• inflammation: Painful swelling in the body due to illness
• spread: A big meal, often laid out as a buffet
• viral: Of or caused by a virus
• brain: To strike someone forcefully on the head
• concern: To be about a particular topic
• rare: (Of meat) cooked, but still red and juicy
• contact: Touching or feeling something
• vaccine: Shot using weak disease cells to stop same disease
• illness: Unhealthy condition of the mind or body
• actual: Real or existing in fact, not imagined; real
• risk: To do something potentially dangerous or foolish
• rate: To assess something or consider its qualities
• outbreak: Sudden occurrence of illness, discontent etc.
• infection: (Computers) Having a computer virus
• raw: Being uncontrolled or strong, as your emotions
• correspondent: Journalist, as one reporting from other countries
• pathogen: Any disease-producing agent
• vary: To change something and make it different
• peel: Outer covering, or skin, of a piece of fruit
• order: Religious or social group, as of nuns
• control: A device designed to operate a machine
• worldwide: Spanning or extending throughout the entire world
• fever: A high body temperature, indicating illness
• contaminate: To make impure by adding a harmful element
• virus: File secretly put on computers to cause harm
• pick: Sharp tool used for breaking the ground
• step: Movement done as part of a particular dance
• medical: Of or relating to physical health or medicine
• person: Man, woman or child
• difficult: Hard; not easy; you need to work hard to do it
• notably: In a way that deserves notice; particularly
• deadly: Causing or capable of causing death
• start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
• professor: Teacher who teaches at a college or university
• transmission: Part of car including gears affecting speed of car
• carry: To have a child, be pregnant
• university: High-level educational institution; college
• work: The product of some artistic or literary endeavor
• prevention: Act of stopping something bad from happening
• infect: To introduce a computer virus to
• incubation: Development in a particular environment
• airport: A place where passenger planes land and take off
• transmissible: (Of a disease) able to be transmitted or inherited