Vocabulary

• feed on: To eat a particular food.
• taken over: To gain control of (a company) from someone else
• wipe out: To destroy or be destroyed
• at risk: In danger; likely to be harmed
• prey on: To victimize or exploit someone, especially someone vulnerable.
• entire: Complete or full; with no part left out; whole
• reveal: To show something that was hidden before
• matter: To be of great importance; to count
• compelling: To force someone to do something
• amount: Quantity of something
• spread: A big meal, often laid out as a buffet
• brain: To strike someone forcefully on the head
• prey: To hunt (other animals) in order to eat them
• release: To free someone from a responsibility or burden
• risk: To do something potentially dangerous or foolish
• race: Speed contest between people, animals or vehicles
• strange: Unusual or odd; surprising because unexpected
• root: Emotional connection with a place, history etc.
• wipe: To clean or dry something with a cloth
• humidity: Amount of moisture in the air in a particular area
• fungus: Plant, e.g. mushroom/mold, growing in damp places
• place: To put someone in a particular type of situation
• act: To behave in a certain way
• parasite: Small animal or plant living off a bigger one
• host: Mass; a great number
• decompose: To cause (chemical) to separate into smaller parts
• head: To hit a ball with your head in a game
• perfect: So good it cannot be improved
• feed: To give food, e.g. to animals or a baby
• land: Region or country
• bite: Amount of food taken into your mouth at one time
• grow: To get bigger and more mature; make plants do this
• gruesome: Showing horrible scenes, e.g. showing blood
• area: Amount of measured space
• growth: Improvement, development in a skill over time
• world: All the humans, events, activities on the earth
• nature: Person's character or particular way of behaving
• forest: Large area with many trees
• parasitic: Living on larger plant/animal and dependent on it
• network: Group of computers connected to each other
• death: When someone dies; the end of life
• infect: To introduce a computer virus to
• spore: Tiny cell like dust that can reproduce itself
• clamp: Something used to fasten two things together
• slime: Thick slippery substance, often rather disgusting
• ant: Insect with six legs that lives in large groups