Vocabulary

• with it: Intelligent, alert, and up-to-date.
• epidemic: Disease that spreads quickly affecting many
• obesity: State of being so fat it can harm your health
• consider: To think carefully about something
• divide: To split numbers by another number, e.g. 6 / 2 = 3
• condition: To improve something to make it better
• conventional: Following the common attitudes and practices
• drastically: In a sudden, extreme or severe manner
• define: To explain the meaning of words
• risk: To do something potentially dangerous or foolish
• premature: Happening before the natural or desired time
• exercise: To work out to become stronger and healthier
• mass: Religious ceremony in some Christian churches
• statistic: Number that represents a piece of information
• excess: Amount that is more than necessary or over a limit
• scary: Causing fear; frightening
• diet: To eat special or less food, as to lose weight
• obese: Fat over a long period, so harming your health
• square: Shape with 4 equal length sides and 4 equal angles
• important: Having power or authority
• storage: Act of storing something; a depository for goods
• person: Man, woman or child
• index: Number showing how prices, wages changed over time
• grow: To get bigger and more mature; make plants do this
• difficult: Hard; not easy; you need to work hard to do it
• medical: Of or relating to physical health or medicine
• surpass: To go beyond or achieve more than someone
• great: Very good; better than before
• type: Printed letters or blocks used for printing them
• country: An area of land that is controlled by a government
• weight: How heavy something is
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• calculate: To find an answer using mathematics
• death: When someone dies; the end of life
• lose: To be unable to keep in check or control something
• people: Persons sharing culture, country, background, etc.
• health: (Person, company) being in a good condition; well
• number: Symbols such as 1, 2, 56, 793
• height: Distance of something from the bottom to the top
• preventable: Being capable of being stopped from happening
• smoking: The act of enjoying cigarettes, pipes, cigars, etc.