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Vocab: Secret of the Yellow Death / Yellow fever circles Brazil

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Anecdote

a)

A remedy to counteract the effects of poison

b)

Short biographical account of an event

c)

A personal story that is used as evidence

d)

A cure for a snake bite

2.

Vaccine

a)

a preparation that is administered (as by injection) to stimulate the body's immune response against a specific infectious agent or disease

b)

A medicine that helps a body avoid certain infections

c)

A machine that sends copies to distant locations

d)

to deprive of an incumbent or occupant

3.

outbreak

a)

Sudden, violent bursting out. Epidemic

b)

A violent expression of feeling

c)

A lot of something happening at once, out of nowhere

d)

Temper Tantrum

4.

megacity

a)

a very large city

b)

a small city

c)

not even a city

d)
5.

snuff (as it is used in the text)

a)

to inhale through the nose especially for smelling

b)

to put an end to

c)

the charred part of a candlewick

d)

materials, supplies, or equipment used in various activities

6.

transmission

a)

an assembly of parts including the speed-changing gears and the driveshaft by which the power is transmitted from an engine to a live axle

b)

Radio waves

c)

to cause or allow to spread

d)

a rendering from one language into another

7.

media

a)

somthing in the middle position

b)

a means of conveying information

c)

a collection of ways to communicate

d)
8.

harmless

a)

not hurtful

b)

super hurtful

9.

inoculate

a)

Introduce a disease to a organism by transmitting the agent which causes it

b)

When you put a little bit of virus in someone to help them respond better to a real version of that virus

c)

having a wavy surface, edge, or markings

d)

to set up for use or service

10.

caseload

a)

the number of poeple needing/ receiving help that is handled by a court or clinic

(*people)

b)

the amout of suitcases a person can take on a plane

c)

a load that fills a car

d)

a large, unspecified quantity

11.

immunization (immunize)

a)

to protect or make resistant to infection (the act of doing so)

b)

making something immune

c)

a treatment that protects you from disease.

12.

mature

a)

to reach a full state of natural development

b)

slow, careful consideration

c)

the external world in its entirety

d)

Trees and wildlife

13.

proboscis

a)

trunk-like process of the head

b)

a long, tube-shaped extension of the mouth in an insect.

c)
d)
14.

nuisance

a)

person or thing causing annoyance

b)

something annoying

c)

something pleasant

d)

person or thing causing pleasure

15.

feeble and enfeeble (choose all appropriate answers)

a)

lacking in strength and energy

b)

weak

c)

a small slender usually steel instrument that has an eye for thread or surgical sutures at one end and that is used for sewin

d)

to make someone weak

16.

microscope

a)

optical instrument used to examine minute objects

b)
c)

a usually tubular optical instrument for viewing distant objects by means of the refraction of light rays through a lens or the reflection of light rays by a concave mirror

d)
17.

stubborn

a)

declining to change a position

b)

refusing to change your mind

c)

easygoing

d)

tending to accept or allow what others want or demand

18.

diagnosis

a)

tending to accept or allow what others want or demand

b)

recognition of a disease based on its symptoms

c)

The answer to what illness a person might have

d)

people settled far from their ancestral homelands

19.

obligingly

a)

to do a favor willingly

b)

to do something unwanted, as a favor

c)

to put in one's debt by a favor or service

d)

to carry out a commitment

e)

obrigada (Portuguese translation)

20.

delirious

a)

having temporary disorder of the mind with symptoms such as ravings hallucinations, and disorder of speech.

b)

an active imagination

c)

frenzied excitement

d)