WorksheetsVocab: Secret of the Yellow Death / Yellow fever circles Brazil
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 20mins
Anecdote
A remedy to counteract the effects of poison
Short biographical account of an event
A personal story that is used as evidence
A cure for a snake bite
Vaccine
a preparation that is administered (as by injection) to stimulate the body's immune response against a specific infectious agent or disease
A medicine that helps a body avoid certain infections
A machine that sends copies to distant locations
to deprive of an incumbent or occupant
outbreak
Sudden, violent bursting out. Epidemic
A violent expression of feeling
A lot of something happening at once, out of nowhere
Temper Tantrum
megacity
a very large city
a small city
not even a city
snuff (as it is used in the text)
to inhale through the nose especially for smelling
to put an end to
the charred part of a candlewick
materials, supplies, or equipment used in various activities
transmission
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
Radio waves
to cause or allow to spread
a rendering from one language into another
media
somthing in the middle position
a means of conveying information
a collection of ways to communicate
harmless
not hurtful
super hurtful
inoculate
Introduce a disease to a organism by transmitting the agent which causes it
When you put a little bit of virus in someone to help them respond better to a real version of that virus
having a wavy surface, edge, or markings
to set up for use or service
caseload
the number of poeple needing/ receiving help that is handled by a court or clinic
(*people)
the amout of suitcases a person can take on a plane
a load that fills a car
a large, unspecified quantity
immunization (immunize)
to protect or make resistant to infection (the act of doing so)
making something immune
a treatment that protects you from disease.
mature
to reach a full state of natural development
slow, careful consideration
the external world in its entirety
Trees and wildlife
proboscis
trunk-like process of the head
a long, tube-shaped extension of the mouth in an insect.
nuisance
person or thing causing annoyance
something annoying
something pleasant
person or thing causing pleasure
feeble and enfeeble (choose all appropriate answers)
lacking in strength and energy
weak
a small slender usually steel instrument that has an eye for thread or surgical sutures at one end and that is used for sewin
to make someone weak
microscope
optical instrument used to examine minute objects
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
stubborn
declining to change a position
refusing to change your mind
easygoing
tending to accept or allow what others want or demand
diagnosis
tending to accept or allow what others want or demand
recognition of a disease based on its symptoms
The answer to what illness a person might have
people settled far from their ancestral homelands
obligingly
to do a favor willingly
to do something unwanted, as a favor
to put in one's debt by a favor or service
to carry out a commitment
obrigada (Portuguese translation)
delirious
having temporary disorder of the mind with symptoms such as ravings hallucinations, and disorder of speech.
an active imagination
frenzied excitement
