Vocabulary

• on to: Toward something; forward
• a couple hundred: Approximately two hundred.
• have been around: To have a lot of experience in life.
• fill in: To put earth in e.g. a hole
• make up: To invent or create a story
• food source: A place or thing from which food is obtained.
• source for: A place, person, or thing from which something comes or can be obtained.
• have to: Must do
• set out: To arrange something in an orderly fashion
• at a time: Separately; one by one
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• food: What people and animals eat to live
• make: To arrange or prepare something e.g. dinner
• people: Persons sharing culture, country, background, etc.
• safe: Highly likely
• stop: To block or close something
• live: To be alive
• adult: Person or animal that is fully grown
• kill: To cause someone to experience a lot of pain
• pass: Act of giving a ball to another player in a sport
• fire: Heat and the flame produced when burning
• wish: To want something to happen or to become true
• unable: Not being able to do something
• mosquito: Small flying insect which sucks blood
• virus: File secretly put on computers to cause harm
• awful: Very bad; horrible; terrible
• bite: Amount of food taken into your mouth at one time
• fighting: To argue or quarrel with someone about something
• develop: To explain something in steps and in detail
• research: To study in order to discover new ideas and facts
• couple: To join something to something else
• historically: In history; in the past
• promise: To say you will certainly do something
• bug: To bother someone
• environmental: Of the natural world of plants and animals
• smart: Fashionable; well-dressed; well-groomed
• mate: A friend who you work, live, or go to school with
• nasty: Very bad, unpleasant, or offensive
• genetically: Caused or controlled, or by genes
• itchy: Nervous and unable to relax
• release: To free someone from a responsibility or burden
• focus: To see clearly by adjusting your eyes or a camera
• ecological: Concerning the environment, plants, or animals
• medically: As regards medical matters
• function: Social event, or party such as a wedding
• harmful: Likely to cause damage or injury
• basically: Used before you explain something simply, clearly
• targeting: To aim at; to focus on something
• strain: To remove the water from (food) using a colander
• resistant: Not affected by something
• target: A goal or amount you are trying to achieve
• deadly: Causing or capable of causing death
• freely: (Living, existing) without being controlled
• infect: To introduce a computer virus to
• transmit: To broadcast by using signals to a radio/TV
• modify: To make minor change to something
• gene: Part of cell controlling development of a thing
• bacteria: The very small creatures that can cause disease
• modifies: To make minor change to something
• insert: To put something into a certain place or spot
• bacterium: The very small creatures that can cause disease
• extinct: (Of animal, etc.) having died out; with none left
• eradication: Complete destruction of every trace of something
• eradicate: To remove or destroy something completely
• intentionally: With a plan to do or achieve something
• transmission: Part of car including gears affecting speed of car
• resistance: Force that stops or slows movement of something
• suck: To be very bad, undesirable or unpleasant
• parasite: Small animal or plant living off a bigger one
• pollinate: (Of bees) to put pollen on plant so it makes seed
• mutate: To develop into another thing; change
• migrate: To move from one country or place to live or work
• pest: Person, often a small child, who bothers people
• ripple: Small gentle low wave on the surface of water, etc.
• biomass: Number of living things in a particular area
• genus: Category of particular animal or plant species
• outright: In a complete manner; totally
• ca: CA is an acronym
• vector: Math a quantity that has both size and direction
• gigantic: Extremely large