Vocabulary

• present: Being in attendance; being there; having turned up
• opportunity: Time, situation when a thing might be done; chance
• situation: Place, position or area that something is in
• conflict: Argument or struggle between two or more parties
• convince: To persuade someone, or make them feel sure
• community: Group of people who share a common idea or area
• productive: Producing things in large quantities; fertile
• symptom: Sign that suggests that there is a problem
• spread: A big meal, often laid out as a buffet
• prevent: To stop something from happening or existing
• desire: To wish for, hope or want something
• exist: To be present, alive or real
• region: Part of a country, of the world, area, etc.
• population: Number of people who live in a country, area etc.
• contact: Touching or feeling something
• reaction: Bodily response to a drug or something eaten
• illness: Unhealthy condition of the mind or body
• curb: Anything that restrains or controls
• democratic: (Of government) giving the people power, a vote
• declare: To make a statement in a strong and confident way
• subject: The person, thing, or idea that is being discussed, described, or studied.
• break: To create a new record e.g. running the 100m dash
• ground: To break (coffee, etc.) into tiny bits with machine
• record: Highest or most extreme level achieved
• outbreak: Sudden occurrence of illness, discontent etc.
• fall: Season after summer and before winter; Autumn
• rush: To attack someone suddenly in a group
• leave: To go away from; depart
• social: Involving activity with people, e.g. in free time
• treatment: Medicine or method to make someone healthier
• previously: At an earlier time
• trace: To make an outline to determine a shape
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• place: To put someone in a particular type of situation
• hit: To have a negative impact on a person/place/thing
• hostility: Hostile action; an act of war
• order: Religious or social group, as of nuns
• fact: Something that is known or proved to be true
• amplify: To increase the effect of something
• zone: Area of space designated for a particular use
• virus: File secretly put on computers to cause harm
• transmission: Part of car including gears affecting speed of car
• hoax: Act intended to deceive or trick
• misinformation: Information that is incorrect
• prevention: Act of stopping something bad from happening
• officer: Person of high position in an organization
• displacement: Number of liters a petrol engine has
• mistrust: To feel that you cannot trust someone or something
• decease: To die
• handwash: Washing or laundering by hand not with a machine