Vocabulary

• at least: As a minimum
• stave off: To keep something away; To repel
• on board: Being on a ship, plane, or other vehicle
• used to: Did regularly before, but don't do now
• entire: Complete or full; with no part left out; whole
• stick: To push a sharp or pointed object into something
• effort: Amount of work used trying to do something
• period: Set amount of time during which events take place
• devastating: To cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
• force: Group of persons trained for military action; army
• describe: To tell the appearance, sound, smell of something
• disease: Illness that affects a person, animal, or plant
• spread: A big meal, often laid out as a buffet
• measure: Plan to achieve a desired result
• prevent: To stop something from happening or existing
• strict: Tending to enforce rules; severe
• estimate: Guess or calculation of cost, size or value
• quarantine: To isolate ill people to prevent disease spreading
• mean: Average of a set of numbers
• state: Region within a country, with its own government
• remain: To be left behind; to continue to exist
• population: Number of people who live in a country, area etc.
• drastic: Serious, severe or extreme
• plague: To cause to have continual problems with something
• board: Surface for posting or showing information
• deem: To judge something to be a certain thing, way
• relate: To demonstrate a logical relationship between
• isolation: Condition of being in a distinct, separate place
• infection: (Computers) Having a computer virus
• century: Period of 100 years
• place: To put someone in a particular type of situation
• impose: To make someone to do or endure something
• suit: To be appropriate for a given situation
• protect: To defend someone or something from harm or danger
• successful: Having the desired effect or result
• set: Prepared for something; ready
• vain: Too proud of yourself, especially your appearance
• isolate: To identify, consider, or deal with separately
• official: Real, exact, truely felt
• carry: To have a child, be pregnant
• port: City where ships can shelter during a storm
• long: Person's name
• word: Unit of language that has a meaning
• ashore: Onto the land from the water
• infest: (Of bad things) to be present in in large numbers
• stave: Wooden post used in structures and buildings
• decimate: to kill a large number of something, or to reduce something severely
• mid: At (or near) the middle point
• stasis: When the normal flow of a liquid slows or stops
• directive: An order from an authority