Vocabulary

• diabetes: Illness where there is too much sugar in the blood
• general: Widespread, normal or usual
• era: Period characterized by particular events, people
• normal: Standard or regular way of doing something
• receptor: A nerve ending that changes stimuli into impulses
• con: To trick or deceive someone
• hay: Dry grass used as food for animals
• soy: Food substance made from soya beans
• metro: Underground railway or subway
• van: Truck with an enclosed cargo space
• do: To act; to perform actions
• primer: A kind of paint put on to make the top coat better
• solo: Being performed or done alone
• sea: Very large group of people, similar-looking things
• piano: Keyboard instrument used for playing music
• llama: Wild South American animal related to camels
• apoptosis: Type of cell death in which the cell uses specialized cellular machinery to kill itself; a cell suicide mechanism that enables metazoans to control cell number and eliminate cells that threaten the animal's survival
• se: South-east
• le
• son: Male child; friendly way of addressing a boy
• ecuador: A republic in northwestern South America; became independent from Spain in; the landscape is dominated by the Andes
• en: Half the width of an em
• doc: Shortened form of “doctor”
• casa: Spanish a house or dwelling
• la: The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization
• ere: (Poetic) before
• bien: (French) good
• uno: One in Spanish
• al: AL is an acronym
• para: Shortened form of paragraph