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Word | Meaning | Advanced |
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smallpox | n: a highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever, weakness, spots on the skin, and often death | |
deadly | adj: likely to cause or capable of causing death | |
fortunate | adj: having good luck or lucky | |
eradicate | v: to get rid of or destroy something completely, especially something bad | |
virus | n: a tiny infectious organic material that causes disease in people, animals, and plants | |
rogue | n: a deceitful and unreliable person; a person who behaves badly | |
vaccine | n: a substance that is put into the body and protects them from disease by causing them to produce antibodies (= proteins that attack harmful bacteria, viruses, etc.) | |
antiviral | adj: inhibiting or stopping the growth and reproduction of viruses; (noun) any drug that destroys viruses | |
improve | v: to make or become better | |
treatment | n: the way in which someone deals with or behaves towards someone or something; medical care provided to a patient for an injury or illness. | |
ethical | adj: of or relating to principles about what is right and wrong, or the branch of knowledge dealing with these | |
expose | v: to show something by uncovering it; to make something accessible to some action or influence | |
lethal | adj: causing or capable of causing death; extremely dangerous | |
lab | n: a workplace for the conduct of scientific research; a laboratory | |
biology | n: the scientific study of life and the natural processes of living things | |
relative | adj: considered and evaluated through comparison with something else | |
experiment | n: the scientific test conducted to observe what happens and gain new knowledge | |
scenario | n: a description of possible actions or events in the future; a written outline of a play, film, or literary work | |
dilemma | n: a situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two or more options, especially that are equally unfavorable ones | |
aim | v: to try or plan to get or achieve something | |
welfare | n: the general health, happiness, and prosperous of a person or group | |
typical | adj: having the usual characteristics or traits of a specific group of things | |
widespread | adj: existing or happening in various places or among many people | |
ethics | n: a branch of philosophy that considers what is morally right and wrong conduct; a set of beliefs about what is morally right and wrong | |
conduct | v: to organize and carry out a particular activity | |
philosophy | n: the study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values, mind | |
moral | adj: concerned with the principles of what is right and wrong, fairness, honesty, etc. | |
binary | n: a system of numbers that uses only two digits, 0 and 1 | |
sake | n: purpose; reason for wanting something done | |
historic | adj: famous or significant in history, or potentially so | |
contemporary | adj: belonging to the same or present time | |
grant | v: to agree to give or allow somebody | |
enlightenment | n: education that results in understanding and the spread of knowledge | |
conception | n: a general idea or belief of what something or someone is like or should be; an understanding of a situation or a principle | |
utilitarianism | n: the belief that the actions are the right if they are useful or for the benefit of a majority | |
elaborate | adj: containing a lot of carefully prepared and organized or many complicated and detailed parts | |
peter | v: to fail or lose power, efficiency, or value gradually before coming to an end | |
entity | n: something that exists independently and has its own identity | |
inclusive | adj: including much or everything, and especially including stated limits; not excluding any of the people, things, ideas, etc. involved in something | |
dramatically | adv: in a very impressive manner | |
widen | v: to become or make something broader, wider, more extensive | |
scope | n: the range of one’s perceptions, thoughts, or actions, or a subject that | |
unnerving | adj: making someone lose courage or confidence, or feel nervous or frightened | |
genetic | adj: of or relating to genes (= parts of the DNA in cells) or the science of genes | |
intellect | n: the ability to think logically and comprehend information, especially at an advanced level | |
coop | v: a farm building or enclosure for housing poultry | |
inequality | n: the unfairness of a society in which some people have more opportunity, money, etc. than others; (mathematics) relation between two values when they are different | |
regret | v: to feel sad, repentant, or disappointed over something you have done or something you have not been able to do | |
calculation | n: the act or process of using numbers to judge an amount of something | |
unstable | adj: lacking solidity, persistence, or firmness and therefore not strong, safe, or likely to continue; lacking control of one’s emotions | |
theoretical | adj: relating to the concepts and principles upon which a particular topic is founded, rather than practice and experience | |
sacrifice | n: the act of killing an animal or person or surrendering a possession as an offering to a deity; (verb) to give up something important or valuable to help another person or get or do something that seems more important | |
balance | n: a condition in which everything has the same weight or force; something left after other parts have been taken away | |
tip | n: the top or extreme point of something slender or tapering, usually a mountain or hill; a piece of advice about something practical; a small amount of money given for services | |
comply | v: to obey an order, set of rules, or request | |
guarantee | v: to promise something will happen formally, especially that certain conditions about a product, service, or transaction would be met | |
discovery | n: the act or process of finding information, a place, or an object, or learning about something that was previously not known | |
tricky | adj: requiring care and skill because challenging to do or deal with | |
quantity | n: the amount or number of something; magnitude | |
uncertain | adj: not being sure of something; not being able to choose | |
essentially | adv: relating to the essential features or concepts of anything | |
mathematics | n: the science dealing with the logic of quantities, shapes, spaces, and arrangement | |
complicated | adj: involving a lot of different things or parts in a way that is difficult to understand or analyze |