Vocabulary

• at night: During the night; in the nighttime.
• depending on: To rely on for support (financial or emotional)
• also known as: Also called; alternatively named.
• fight off: To defend a position, often violently
• in trouble: Experiencing difficulties, problems, or legal issues.
• cool down: To become cooler; to reduce in temperature.
• break down: To forcibly break, destroy or make collapse
• over to: Used to hand over to someone else to speak
• essential: Extremely or most important and necessary
• immune: Having a special protection from, e.g. the law
• recommend: To advise or suggest that someone do something
• potentially: That could happen or become reality
• consequence: Importance of a person or thing
• bacteria: The very small creatures that can cause disease
• capable: Being able to do something very well; proficient
• function: Social event, or party such as a wedding
• brain: To strike someone forcefully on the head
• occur: To come to pass or to happen
• reach: To come to or arrive at a goal or destination
• journal: A diary; record of what you do every day
• cause: Belief, goal or organization that people support
• plain: Obvious; clearly so, true
• cabinet: Piece of furniture resembling a cupboard
• raise: To increase a bet above another when playing cards
• core: To take out the central section of a fruit
• impair: To damage or weaken something
• illness: Unhealthy condition of the mind or body
• sweat: To do an amount of hard work
• degree: Amount or extent of something
• break: To create a new record e.g. running the 100m dash
• infection: (Computers) Having a computer virus
• reduce: To try to decrease, e.g. your weight if overweight
• enhance: To improve; make bigger or better
• internal: Being or happening in the body
• mild: Gentle in nature or behavior
• leave: To go away from; depart
• suggest: To mention something that could be done; propose
• previously: At an earlier time
• naked: Not wearing any clothes; without covering
• normal: Standard or regular way of doing something
• activity: An action or task, e.g. sports, washing clothes
• enzyme: A protein made by cells
• vary: To change something and make it different
• inhibit: To stop a person expressing themselves normally
• depend: Be controlled or determined by (someone/something)
• important: Having power or authority
• duration: Length of time that something lasts
• system: Set of organized, planned ideas that work together
• invade: To enter something causing a harmful result
• allow: To admit the validity or truth of something
• hydrate: To give or add water to something or someone
• fever: A high body temperature, indicating illness
• hypothalamus: Basal part of the diencephalon governing autonomic nervous system
• virus: File secretly put on computers to cause harm
• thermostat: Instrument that controls temperature in buildings
• medication: Substance to relieve pain or cure sickness
• remember: To give someone a gift, e.g. birthday, wedding
• malfunction: A failure of something to work properly
• fast: In a way that is difficult to move or change
• dissipate: To disappear over time
• behold: To look at
• bacterium: The very small creatures that can cause disease
• cover: To record a different version of another song
• elevate: To make something higher
• believe: To think or accept that something is true
• antigen: Substance that produces antibodies in the body
• dehydrate: To cause (skin, body) to lose water that is needed