CAE reading coronavirus article lexis

What's the meaning of 'send a shudder'

• to be annoyed about a situation

• to cause you to feel extremely worried or frightened

• said if you know who gave you the information being discussed but do not want to say who it was

'Officials were scrambling' means:

• officials were making eggs

• officials were planning

• officials were moving quickly

'Stock prices plunged' means

• they went down fast

• they went up

• they went down slowly

'fallout' means

• the effects of a trip

• the unpleasant effects of an argument

• the unpleasant effects of an action or event

'sluggishly' means

• fortunatelly

• slowly

• gradually

'to grapple' means

• to repair

• to make juice

• to fight

'sought' is the past of

• see

• seek

• sew

'overburdened ' means

• having too much to carry, contain, or deal with

• to describe or explain something in such a simple way that it is no longer correct or true

• considering or presenting something complicated in a simple way, especially a way that is too simple

'yield' means

• to finish doing something or end, or to cause someone or something to finish

• to cause something to exist, or to make something new or imaginative

• to supply or produce something positive such as a profit, an amount of food, or information