Words & Phrases |
Paraphrasing |
drive something home |
stress a point forcefully |
pet |
(v.) stroke or pat (an animal) |
sneeze |
make a sudden involuntary expulsion of air from the nose and mouth due
to irritation of one's nostrils |
cough |
expel air from the lungs with a sudden sharp sound |
offhand |
curt, abrupt, terse, brusque, rude, casual |
respectively |
separately or individually |
disparity |
a great difference (= discrepancy, imbalance, gap) |
put in the contact lenses |
Ětake out the contact lenses |
ward off |
prevent someone/thing from harming or affecting one |
contagion |
the communication of disease from one person to another by close contact |
microbe |
a micro-organism, especially bacterium causing disease or fermentation |
diarrhea (diarrhoea) |
a condition in which faeces are discharged from the bowels frequently and
in a liquid form |
epidemic |
a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular
time |
antibiotic |
a medicine that inhibits the growth of or destroys micro-organisms |
on top of |
in additon to, besides, as well as |
carrier |
a person or animal that transmits a disease-causing organism to others |
menace |
a threat or danger |
E.coli |
the bacterium Escherichia coli, commonly found in the intestines of humans
and other animals |
reptile |
a cold-blooded animal which has a dry scaly skin and lays soft-shelled
eggs on land |
stack |
a large quantity of something |
hygiene |
conditions of keeping yourself and your surroundings clean, especially
in order to prevent illness |
dysentery |
an infection in a person's intestines that causes severe diarrhoea |
consider it done |
I'm on it, I'm committed to doing it without fail, You can trust me, |
bone-chilling |
extemely frightening, scary, terrifying, bloodcurdling, hair-raisin, spine-chilling,
goose-bumpy |
fend off |
ward off |
jot down |
write quickly down |
rinse |
wash with clean water to remove soap or dirt |
disposable |
(of an article) intended to be used once and then thrown away |