Vocabulary

• at risk: In danger; likely to be harmed
• evidence of: Facts, objects, or signs that make you believe that something is true.
• available from: Obtainable or accessible from a particular source or location.
• to order: To give an instruction or command.
• majority: Amount that is more than half of a group
• evidence: Factual proof that helps to establish the truth
• attempt: To try to do something challenging or difficult
• treat: To pay for the food or enjoyment of someone else
• develop: To explain something in steps and in detail
• disease: Illness that affects a person, animal, or plant
• bacteria: The very small creatures that can cause disease
• stroke: When blood cannot get to brain, causing damage
• suspect: Person thought to have committed a crime
• state: Region within a country, with its own government
• brain: To strike someone forcefully on the head
• rare: (Of meat) cooked, but still red and juicy
• contact: Touching or feeling something
• form: Sports team or person's current winning record
• result: Something produced through tests or experiments
• prescription: Specific medicine officially ordered for a patient
• seek: To ask someone for help
• risk: To do something potentially dangerous or foolish
• outbreak: Sudden occurrence of illness, discontent etc.
• infection: (Computers) Having a computer virus
• expose: To make visible, without covering or protection
• investigate: To try to find out facts; to carry out research
• receive: To get something someone has given or sent to you
• company: Good feeling from being with someone else
• pain: Strong feeling of hurt or discomfort
• fungus: Plant, e.g. mushroom/mold, growing in damp places
• custom: Person's regular, daily habit or practice
• control: A device designed to operate a machine
• order: Religious or social group, as of nuns
• confirm: To formally approve or check something
• fever: A high body temperature, indicating illness
• recall: (Company) asking for the return of faulty goods
• learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
• speech: A formal talk to an audience
• virus: File secretly put on computers to cause harm
• parasite: Small animal or plant living off a bigger one
• protect: To defend someone or something from harm or danger
• sudden: Happening or done quickly or unexpectedly
• onset: When something, e.g. an illness, starts; beginning
• medication: Substance to relieve pain or cure sickness
• specialty: Skill or a dish that a person, business is good at
• cord: A long strong material, thicker than string
• suspend: To hang something or someone from something
• find: To become aware of something that is happening
• weakness: Fault or bad quality preventing success
• spinal: Concerning the spine or nerves in your back
• inspection: Official examination to make sure everything is ok
• infect: To introduce a computer virus to
• headache: Pain in the head
• prevention: Act of stopping something bad from happening
• stiffness: Firm resoluteness in purpose or opinion or action
• steroid: Drug making muscles bigger and giving more energy
• fungal: Concerning fungi
• ember: Wood still hot and red after a fire stops burning
• meningitis: A serious illness affecting part of the brain