Vocabulary

• weird: Odd or unusual; surprising; strange
• stick: To push a sharp or pointed object into something
• fatigue: Breaking due to being moved or bent many times
• immune: Having a special protection from, e.g. the law
• trigger: Lever on a gun that you pull to fire
• evidence: Factual proof that helps to establish the truth
• improve: To make, or become, something better
• treat: To pay for the food or enjoyment of someone else
• bizarre: Odd or strange
• specifically: As regards a particular thing; closely related to
• general: Widespread, normal or usual
• develop: To explain something in steps and in detail
• bacteria: The very small creatures that can cause disease
• disease: Illness that affects a person, animal, or plant
• barrier: Difficult situation preventing something happening
• stress: To emphasize one or more parts of a word, sentence
• inflammation: Painful swelling in the body due to illness
• irritable: Annoyed; easily annoyed or angered
• gut: To destroy the inside of a building , e.g. by fire
• research: To study in order to discover new ideas and facts
• increase: To make or become larger in size or amount
• absorb: To take up all attention / energy of something
• affect: To cause a change in something else
• intestine: Long tube in the body for digesting food
• brain: To strike someone forcefully on the head
• genetic: Of, relating to, or controlled by genes
• response: Something said/written as an answer to something
• explain: To make clear or easy to understand by describing
• suppress: To prevent the display of emotion or feeling
• form: Sports team or person's current winning record
• inflammatory: Making or intended to make someone angry
• effect: An advantage, benefit
• pretty: Being attractive to the eye in a simple way
• option: A choice
• risk: To do something potentially dangerous or foolish
• tissue: Substance formed by cells of living thing; flesh
• mucus: Thick liquid substance made in certain parts of the human body, such as the nose
• cure: Something that solves a problem or makes it better
• suggest: To mention something that could be done; propose
• treatment: Medicine or method to make someone healthier
• investigate: To try to find out facts; to carry out research
• combine: To mix several things together to form one thing
• depend: Be controlled or determined by (someone/something)
• pain: Strong feeling of hurt or discomfort
• terrible: Very bad; horrible
• exacerbate: To increase the severity or bitterness of
• liver: Organ from animals served as food
• damage: Physical harm that is done to something
• bowel: End part of the intestine, connected to the anus
• flare: To become angry or excited suddenly
• oral: Concerning the mouth
• battle: Military fight between armies
• discomfort: To cause to feel uncomfortable or not at ease
• colon: Lower part of intestine turning food into waste
• microbiome: the microorganisms (= living things too small to be seen) that exist in a particular environment or in the human body
• cancer: Any growth caused by abnormal cell division
• nicotine: Addictive substance in tobacco
• bloody: Covered or spotted with blood on the surface
• overactive: More active than normal, other people