Vocabulary

• in the hope of: With the expectation or desire for something to happen.
• play it safe: To avoid risks; to be cautious.
• along with: In addition to; together with.
• lock down: To secure a building or area to prevent entry or exit.
• spread out: To extend or stretch over a large area.
• for some reason: For a reason that is not known or not easily explained.
• in under: Located inside and beneath something.
• situation: Place, position or area that something is in
• identify: To indicate who or what someone or something is
• stress: To emphasize one or more parts of a word, sentence
• spread: A big meal, often laid out as a buffet
• prevent: To stop something from happening or existing
• burden: To weigh down with a load; impose a task upon
• ease: To make something less difficult, tight, stressed
• reason: To think and make conclusions in a logical manner
• seal: To close tightly to protect it from leaking
• lift: Picking someone up in a car and taking to a place
• outbreak: Sudden occurrence of illness, discontent etc.
• coronavirus: Any of a group of RNA viruses that cause a variety of diseases in humans and other animals.
• instruction: A command for someone formally to do something
• scramble: To cause war planes to take off quickly
• activity: An action or task, e.g. sports, washing clothes
• haven: Place where people can feel safe and happy
• system: Set of organized, planned ideas that work together
• haul: To pull or drag something heavy (e.g. boat)
• information: Collection of facts and details about something
• act: To behave in a certain way
• public: Owned by the government
• government: Group of people and system that rule a nation
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• build: Your physical shape; physique
• virus: File secretly put on computers to cause harm
• surround: To be all the way around something
• excellent: Extremely good
• prepare: To make something ready for use
• wear: To have clothes, glasses, shoes etc. on your body
• hide: To go to, or put a thing where it can't be found
• province: Subject that a person has a good knowledge of
• deadly: Causing or capable of causing death
• apartment: Set of rooms to live in on one floor of a building
• healthcare: Nursing care to prevent illness or recover from it
• lock: To become fixed in place and hard to move
• mask: To hide something so that it cannot be seen
• meat: Flesh of a dead animal that you eat
• safe: Highly likely
• supermarket: Self-service store selling groceries etc.