Vocabulary

• draw up: To create a formal document
• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• pull back: To move to a safer area; retreat
• by itself: Alone; without help or assistance.
• depending on: To rely on for support (financial or emotional)
• over time: Gradually; as time passes.
• change over: To switch from one thing to another.
• at most: Not more than; a maximum of.
• roll it: To prepare a marijuana cigarette.
• throw off: To put out (heat, smell etc.); emit
• off of: From a position on something; down from.
• cap off: To end something in an exciting or extreme way
• scoop it up: To acquire or collect something quickly and eagerly.
• check out
• subscribe: To regularly pay to receive a service
• stick: To push a sharp or pointed object into something
• access: Way to enter a place, e.g. a station or stadium
• technique: Way of doing by using special knowledge or skill
• diabetes: Illness where there is too much sugar in the blood
• concept: Abstract idea of something or how it works
• immediately: Without any delay; straight away
• flip: To turn your body in the air, as in gymnastics
• hygiene: Cleanliness; being clean
• consider: To think carefully about something
• familiar: Well-known or easily recognized
• purpose: Reason for which something is done; aim; goal
• rid: To cause to no longer have (pest, problem)
• precise: (Of language details etc.) Very accurate and exact
• prevent: To stop something from happening or existing
• affect: To cause a change in something else
• alter: To change so (clothing) fits better
• regular: Having an equal amount of space or time in between
• draw: To attract attention to someone or something
• glucose: Natural type of sugar found in fruits and plants
• generally: Usually; as a rule; by, to or for most people
• settle: To make (a child, etc.) feel calm/ready for sleep
• perform: To carry out an action well or successfully
• typical: Normal; usual; expected
• insulin: Substance in the body processing sugar into energy
• scoop: To dig out for a hole with a tool or hands
• equal: Same in shape, size, or number
• throw: To use your arm to make something fly in the air
• alcohol: A colorless liquid that can catch fire (C2H5OH)
• intermediate: Between; in the middle; moderate
• peak: Part of a cap that sticks out over your eyes
• pop: To cause something to open or burst suddenly
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• depend: Be controlled or determined by (someone/something)
• channel: Long hole dug in the ground, e.g. to move water
• important: Having power or authority
• decrease: To reduce the size, amount or number of something
• order: Religious or social group, as of nuns
• act: To behave in a certain way
• dose: An amount of medicine to be taken at any one time
• contaminate: To make impure by adding a harmful element
• daily: Happening every day
• physician: A medical doctor
• pull: Act of breathing in smoke, as from a pipe
• remember: To give someone a gift, e.g. birthday, wedding
• contamination: Being impure because of a harmful agent
• hold: To agree to keep something for someone
• administer: To give e.g. medicine to a patient
• check: Paper showing how much you owe at a restaurant
• deplete: To reduce the amount, strength or number of
• cap: Covering for the end or top of something
• inject: To add or put in more (money, energy etc.)
• injection: Act of adding or putting in; adding to
• notify: To inform; to communicate specific information
• syringe: Device with a needle to take blood/inject drugs
• vial: Small container of glass or plastic
• plunger: Tool with rubber ends used to clean clogged drains