#3 COVID: ONE YEAR ON

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📣 Vocabulary：

1. pandemic：a disease that affects people over a very large area or the whole world.

👉🏻The government should control SARS before it becomes a pandemic.

2. take hold：to start to have a definite effect.

👉🏻The economic recovery is just beginning to take hold now.

3. wimpy：not strong, brave, or confident.

👉🏻I was too wimpy to be a boxer so I decided to be a musician.

4. sheer：used to emphasize how very great, important, or powerful a quality or feeling is; nothing except.

👉🏻Immense and sheer, the mountains emerge from a fog of silk.

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

👉🏻the reforms will kick in later this year.

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

👉🏻Billions of dollars will have been poured into the human genome project.

7. take stock：to think carefully about the things that have happened in a situation in order to decide what to do next.

👉🏻While in the hospital, Jeremy took stock of his life.

8. virologist：the scientific study of viruses or of the diseases caused by them.

👉🏻The world-leading virologist has joined the new EU COVID-19 advisory team.

9. pneumonia：a serious illness that affects your lungs and makes it difficult for you to breathe.

👉🏻People who are bedridden can easily get pneumonia.

10. death toll：the number of people who die because of an event such as a war or an accident.

👉🏻The day after the explosion the death toll had risen to 90.

11. recap：to repeat the main points of an explanation or a description.

👉🏻To recap, our main aim is to increase sales by 15 percent this year.

12. zoologist：a person who scientifically studies animals.

👉🏻I'd paint like a zoologist, catching the animals doing things they actually do.

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