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#3 Vocabulary Of Covid One Year On

VOCABULARY


-pandemic

(of a disease) existing in almost all of an area or in almost all of a group of people, animals, or in almost all of a group of people, animals, or plants.

In some parts of the world malaria is still pandemic.

-take hold

to become strong; to be established.

The economic recovery is just beginning to take hold now.

-wimpy

not strong, brave, or confident

I was too wimpy to be a boxer so I decided to be a musician.

-sheer

used to emphasize how very great, important, or powerful a quality or feeling is; nothing except

His success was due to sheer willpower/determination.

-kick in

to start to have an effect or to happen

It takes half an hour for the medication to kick in.

-genome

the complete set of genetic material of a human, animal, plant, or other living thing

Although the copy numbers of the vector genome were reduced, our data did not rule out promoter shut-off completely.

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VOCABULARY exceedingly (adv.) 非常地 to a very great degree ◆ He was  clever ,  handsome , and exceedingly  rich . persistence (n.) 持續存在；堅持不懈 the fact that someone or something persists ◆ Most financial analysts have been surprised by the persistence  of  the recession. schizophrenia (n.) 精神分裂症 a serious mental illness in which someone cannot  understand  what is  real  and what is  imaginary ◆ He was  diagnosed  with  paranoid  schizophrenia octogenarian (n.) 八旬老人 a person who is between 80 and 89 years old ◆ My sick grandpa was very excited to be reaching octogenarian status.  cholesterol (n.) 膽固醇 a substance containing a lot of fat that is found in the body tissue and blood of all animals, thought to be part of the cause of heart dise...
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