Vocabulary

• seek out: To look for and find someone or something, especially when it is not easy to find.
• in other words: Stating something in a different way, often to make it clearer or more understandable.
• think of: To look on as (being something specific); consider
• prior to: Before a particular time or event.
• long for: To have a strong desire or yearning for something.
• on the street: Located on or along a public road in a town or city.
• parties involved: The individuals, groups, or entities that are participating in or affected by a particular situation, agreement, or event.
• in touch: Having contact or communication with someone.
• chronic: Always or often doing something, e.g. lying
• individual: Single person, looked at separately from others
• significant: Large enough to be noticed or have an effect
• phenomenon: Unusual event, fact that can be studied
• access: Way to enter a place, e.g. a station or stadium
• period: Set amount of time during which events take place
• obesity: State of being so fat it can harm your health
• scale: Size, level, or amount when compared
• psychological: Concerning the study of the mind
• necessarily: In a way that is needed/required/is unavoidable
• disease: Illness that affects a person, animal, or plant
• reward: To give something because of someone's good work
• inflammation: Painful swelling in the body due to illness
• research: To study in order to discover new ideas and facts
• ability: The power, resources or skill to do something
• increase: To make or become larger in size or amount
• lack: To not have, or not have enough, of something
• exercise: To work out to become stronger and healthier
• stroke: When blood cannot get to brain, causing damage
• quarantine: To isolate ill people to prevent disease spreading
• mechanism: Part of a machine that performs a certain function
• interaction: Process of people or things affecting each other
• response: Something said/written as an answer to something
• inflammatory: Making or intended to make someone angry
• contact: Touching or feeling something
• havoc: Situation with destruction, damage and confusion
• complete: To finish or reach the end of doing something
• risk: To do something potentially dangerous or foolish
• prior: Existing or coming earlier in time
• likelihood: Chance that something might happen
• induce: To make someone do something; create an outcome
• social: Involving activity with people, e.g. in free time
• activity: An action or task, e.g. sports, washing clothes
• notice: To become aware by sight, touch, or hearing
• intentional: Done with a deliberate plan to do or achieve
• nasal: Concerning, used for, or relating to the nose
• chance: The way something happens without planning
• subjective: Using personal feelings and opinions not facts
• hook: Bent tool used to catch fish or to hang things on
• worse: Comparative of 'bad'; more bad
• virus: File secretly put on computers to cause harm
• loneliness: State of feeling sad because you are alone
• great: Very good; better than before
• change: To exchange one set of clothes for another
• cellular: Concerning a cell of a living thing
• include: To make someone, something part of a group
• capitalism: Economic system where companies own industry
• healthy: In good condition physically, or financially; well
• feel: To be aware of or experience an emotion, sensation
• gene: Part of cell controlling development of a thing
• design: To plan in a particular way to fulfill a purpose
• coronary: Concerning the heart
• lonely: Sad because apart from other people
• transcription: Something written from spoken material
• hungry: Feeling a need or want to eat food
• smoke: To give off a cloud of grey gas from burning
• humankind: All of the living human inhabitants of the earth