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Word | Meaning | Advanced |
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bat | n: a nocturnal animal with wings that flies and feeds at night, similar to a mouse; a piece of wood with a handle used for hitting the ball in sports including baseball, cricket, and table tennis | |
infect | v: to affect a person, an animal, or a plant with a disease-causing organism | |
virus | n: a tiny infectious organic material that causes disease in people, animals, and plants | |
rabies | n: a viral disease that affects the nervous system of mammals, including humans; transmitted through the saliva of infected animals, most often through a bite, which can lead to paralysis, seizures, and death if left untreated | |
diagnose | v: to determine or distinguish the nature of a problem or an illness through a careful analysis | |
lethal | adj: causing or capable of causing death; extremely dangerous | |
mammal | n: any animal of which the female gives birth to live young, not eggs, and feeds her young on milk from her own body | |
faze | v: to disturb or disconcert someone, often causing them to lose their confidence or composure; to unsettle, intimidate, or fluster | |
infection | n: a condition in which pathogenic microorganisms or viruses have entered the body | |
relation | n: the way two persons or groups of people feel and act toward one another | |
evolve | v: to develop gradually, or to cause the development of something or someone gradually | |
specific | adj: clearly defined or particular to a certain thing or situation; distinct, explicit, and precise | |
creature | n: a living being, especially an animal | |
unlikely | adj: not probable or likely to happen | |
influenza | n: (formal for flu) a highly contagious viral disease that causes fever, severe aching, and catarrh and often occurs in epidemics | |
relate | v: to establish a connection or association between two or more things; to narrate or tell about an event, experience, or relationship; to empathize or feel sympathy with someone or something | |
immune | adj: protected against a particular disease or toxin due to the presence of specific antibodies or sensitized white blood cells | |
defend | v: to protect someone or something from attack, criticism, danger, etc. | |
steady | adj: firmly fixed, supported, or balanced; not shaking or moving | |
stream | n: a small, narrow river; a continuous flow of something, such as liquid, gas, people, vehicles, etc. | |
criteria | n: (plural of criterion) standards or conditions by which something may be judged or decided | |
typical | adj: having the usual characteristics or traits of a specific group of things | |
adaptation | n: the action or process of changing to suit different conditions | |
pathogen | n: a bacterium, virus, or other microorganism that causes disease | |
controllable | adj: able to be controlled or directed | |
strain | n: a force or pressure that stretches or pulls something, sometimes causing damage; (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups | |
mammalian | adj: of or relating to mammals, a class of warm-blooded vertebrate animals that typically nurse their young and have hair or fur on their skin; characterized by mammalian qualities, such as nurturing and protective behavior | |
overdrive | n: a gear in a vehicle that allows the engine to operate at a higher speed than the vehicle’s speed, resulting in greater fuel efficiency and smoother driving; (verb) to drive or work too hard | |
horde | n: a large group of people or animals, especially one that is chaotic or uncontrolled | |
antibody | n: a substance produced in the blood that attacks and kills harmful bacteria, viruses, etc., to fight disease | |
inflame | v: to cause very strong feelings such as anger or excitement in a person or a group of people | |
molecule | n: a group of two or more atoms held together by attractive forces known as chemical bonds | |
invade | v: to enter aggressively into another’s territory by military force for conquest and occupation | |
progression | n: the act or process of changing to the next stage or phase or moving forward | |
assault | n: a violent physical attack; the crime of forcing someone to submit to sexual intercourse against their will | |
tissue | n: an ensemble of similar cells of the animal or plant that together carry out a specific function | |
damage | v: to harm or cause injury to something or someone, often resulting in decreased value or functionality; to impair or negatively affect something, such as a reputation or relationship; (noun) harm or injury that is caused to a person, thing, or entity | |
virulent | adj: extremely harmful or poisonous, especially in a physical or biological sense; highly infectious or contagious; intensely bitter or hostile | |
vulnerable | adj: capable of being hurt or influenced physically or mentally | |
evolutionary | adj: relating to or denoting how living things develop or change from earlier forms | |
millennium | n: a span of 1000 years, or the 1000th anniversary (plural: millennia) | |
adapt | v: to make fit for or change to suit a new purpose or environment | |
develop | v: to grow or expand; to improve or refine through a process of progress and refinement, often to achieve greater sophistication or complexity; to elaborate or add detail to something that is in the process of being created | |
trait | n: a particular feature of your nature | |
flee | v: to leave by running away, especially out of fear or danger | |
intensive | adj: involving a lot of work or activity in a short time | |
process | n: a series of actions or operations performed to achieve a particular outcome or goal; a systematic procedure or approach used to accomplish a specific task or objective; a method of treating milk to make it suitable for consumption or use in other dairy products | |
temperature | n: the degree of hotness or coldness of a thing or place | |
metabolism | n: the set of chemical reactions in cells or organisms that are necessary for life-sustaining | |
react | v: to take action in response to something | |
oxygen | n: the chemical element with the symbol O that is present in air and water and is necessary for people, animals, and plants to live | |
fragment | n: a small piece or part broken off or detached | |
loose | adj: not securely fixed or fastened in place or able to be detached or separated from something | |
dampen | v: to make something wet or moist; to reduce the intensity or impact of something, such as a feeling, sound, or movement | |
dam | n: a wall constructed over a river to block the flow of water, mainly used to generate energy | |
associate | v: to mentally connect someone or something with someone or something else | |
deploy | v: to move troops or weapons into a position or military action; to bring into something in an effective way | |
absent | adj: not present in a particular place at a particular time | |
genome | n: the complete set or sequence of genes of a human, animal, plant, or other living things | |
coexist | v: to live or exist together at the same time in the same place | |
impressive | adj: arousing admiration due to size, quality, or skill | |
negative | adj: having the quality of something bad or harmful; expressing refusal | |
consequence | n: the outcome of a particular action or event, especially relative to an individual | |
accord | n: an official agreement or treaty between two organizations, countries, etc.; (verb) allow to have | |
efficient | adj: performing at the highest level of productivity with the least wasted effort or resources; capable of achieving maximum output with minimum wasted effort, time, or materials | |
counteract | v: to act against something to reduce its bad or harmful effects or neutralize it | |
frequent | adj: happening constantly | |
sustain | v: to supply enough of what somebody or something needs to survive or exist; to accept as valid | |
contribute | v: to give something, especially money or goods, to provide or achieve something together with other people | |
chromosome | n: a long and string-like DNA molecule containing the part or all of the genetic material of an organism that controls what an animal or plant is like | |
sequence | n: a series of related events, actions, numbers, etc., which have a particular order | |
telomere | n: a structure that protects the terminal regions of chromosome | |
cousin | n: the child of your aunt or uncle | |
grant | v: to agree to give or allow somebody | |
lifespan | n: the length of time for which a person, animal lives, or thing exists | |
invincible | adj: incapable of being conquered, defeated, or overcome; unassailable | |
disease | n: a disorder or illness that affects the body or mind, often characterized by specific symptoms or abnormal functioning of organs or systems | |
bacteria | n: single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms that exist in large numbers in the air, water, and soil, and also in living and dead creatures and plants, and are often a cause of disease | |
unfamiliar | adj: not known or recognized; not experienced or encountered before | |
fungus | n: a type of organism that includes yeasts, molds, and mushrooms, which are heterotrophic, meaning they do not produce their food and must consume organic matter to survive | |
ravage | v: to cause damage to something badly | |
syndrome | n: a group of signs and symptoms that occur together and are characteristic of a particular condition or disorder | |
disrupt | v: to prevent or stop something, especially an event, activity, or process, from continuing in the usual way by causing a problem or disturbance | |
hibernation | n: a state of inactivity and metabolic depression in animals during the winter | |
deteriorate | v: to become worse in quality; to decline or degenerate | |
critic | n: someone who expresses opinions about the quality of books, music, etc. | |
ecosystem | n: all the plants and living creatures in an area and the way they affect each other and the environment | |
pollination | n: the transfer of pollen from the male reproductive organs of one flower to the female reproductive organs of another flower, resulting in fertilization and the production of seeds | |
disperse | v: to spread out or distribute over a broad region, or to cause something to do so | |
consume | v: to spend something, especially fuel, energy, or time, in a large amount | |
pest | n: a destructive insect or other animals that are harmful to crops, animals, or humans; someone or something that is annoying or troublesome | |
insect | n: any small creature that has six legs and a body divided into three sections | |
encroach | v: to advance beyond the usual or acceptable limit gradually and often without being noticed; to infringe upon someone’s territory, rights, privacy, etc. | |
preserve | v: to keep or maintain a particular quality, feature, etc., especially to prevent it from decaying, being damaged, or being destroyed | |
unique | adj: being the only one of its kind; unlike anything else | |
antiviral | adj: inhibiting or stopping the growth and reproduction of viruses; (noun) any drug that destroys viruses | |
viral | adj: relating to or caused by a virus | |
immunity | n: the ability of an organism to resist infection or disease, often due to the presence of antibodies |