#3 COVID: One year on

 

1. pandemic: a disease that affects people, animal or plants around the world

👉 The bird flu pandemic is well controlled.

2. take hold: to become strong; to be established

👉 Economic reform have begun to take hold.

3. wimpy: not strong, brave or confident

👉 It's difficult to find wimpy in a sentence.

4. sheer:(verb) change direction suddenly

👉 I thought the boats were going to collide, but one sheered off/away at the last second.

            

  (adj) used to emphasize how very great, important, or powerful a quality or feeling is; nothing except

👉 It was sheer coincidence that we met.

  (adj) extremely steep; almost vertical

👉 a sheer moutain side

5. kick in: to start to have an effect or to happen

👉 It takes half an hour for the medication to kick in.

6. genome: the complete set of genetic material of a human, animal, plant, or other living thing

👉 The Human Genome Project has several objectives.

7. vaccine: a substance containing a virus or bacterium in a form that is not harmful, given to a person or animal to prevent them from getting the disease that the virus or bacterium causes

👉 The vaccine was used to protect the whole population against infection.

8. outbreak: a time when something suddenly begins, especially a diease or something else dangerous or unpleasant 

👉 The outbreak of riot caused many people die.

9. feeble: weak and without energy, strength, or power

👉 A feeble cry came from the next door.

10. zoologist: a person who scientifically studies animals

👉 The zoologist had spent a long time living with monkeys.