Vocabulary Flashcards

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Epidemic

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Outbreak of a disease that spreads more quickly and more extensively among a group of people than would normally be expected.

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Keen

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Quick to understand things.

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Quarantine

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A place in which people or animals spend a period of isolation to prevent the spread of disease.

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Cynical

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Doubting or contemptuous of human nature or of the motives, goodness, or sincerity of others.

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Innumerable

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Too many to be counted.

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Emigrate

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To leave a place, especially a native country, to go and live in another country.

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Queue

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To form a line while waiting for something.

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Extraction

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The taking away or getting rid of something.

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Reprieve

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Temporary relief from something harmful, especially danger or pain.

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Alleged

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Claimed but not yet proven to have taken place, have been committed, or be as described.