Vocabulary

• break down: To forcibly break, destroy or make collapse
• from top to bottom: Completely or thoroughly; in every part.
• move to: To change the place where you live or work.
• intellectual property: Creations of the mind, such as inventions; literary and artistic works; designs; and symbols, names and images used in commerce.
• around the world: In or to many countries.
• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• in terms of
• pandemic: (of a disease) existing in almost all of an area or in almost all of a group of people, animals, or plants
• demonstrate: To display a feeling or ability openly
• effective: Working efficiently to produce a desired result
• hygiene: Cleanliness; being clean
• bacteria: The very small creatures that can cause disease
• intellectual: connected with or using a person’s ability to think in a logical way and understand things
• demand: Desire customers have to buy product, service
• legacy: Literature, arts etc. from previous generations
• property: Particular quality that someone or something has
• increase: To make or become larger in size or amount
• molecule: Two or more atoms chemically combined
• industry: Hard work; being busy working
• competition: Fighting against others to win something
• innovation: Process of creating new ideas or inventions
• cruise: To easily achieve
• remain: To be left behind; to continue to exist
• surface: To give (road) a top layer
• norm: Standard or regular way of doing something
• require: To demand that someone does something
• apply: To spread a substance or liquid over a surface
• temporarily: For a limited amount of time
• create: To make, cause, or bring into existence
• crew: Organized group of workers (e.g. on a ship)
• clinical: Concerning the treatment or observing patients
• oxygen: A gas in the air that we need to breathe
• outbreak: Sudden occurrence of illness, discontent etc.
• accelerate: To cause to occur earlier than expected
• infection: (Computers) Having a computer virus
• coronavirus: Any of a group of RNA viruses that cause a variety of diseases in humans and other animals.
• fold: To bend one part of something against another
• industrial: Concerning making things in factories
• company: Good feeling from being with someone else
• agent: Chemical with the power to make chemical reactions
• technology: Use or knowledge of science in industry etc.
• mainstream: Prevailing current of thought
• distribute: To hand out or give to people
• wipe: To clean or dry something with a cloth
• patent: Legal protection for inventions or ideas
• fungus: Plant, e.g. mushroom/mold, growing in damp places
• operate: To control or handle something, such as a machine
• bleach: Chemical that disinfects and whitens
• format: Form, design, or arrangement of something
• bucket: Open container with a handle used to carry liquids
• hydrogen: Lightest of all chemical elements
• active: Moving around a lot or doing many things
• warehouse: Large building for storing goods, e.g. grain
• transmit: To broadcast by using signals to a radio/TV
• virus: File secretly put on computers to cause harm
• disinfect: To remove bacteria by cleaning
• suspend: To hang something or someone from something
• possibly: May be true or likely, but is uncertain
• difficult: Hard; not easy; you need to work hard to do it
• hard: Difficult to do; difficult to understand
• include: To make someone, something part of a group
• basin: A sink; a place in a bathroom to wash your face
• evenly: Equally; with advantage to both sides
• wide: Having a great distance from one side to the other
• bug: To bother someone
• list: To lean to one side, like a boat or ship
• cripple: To hurt and make useless
• efficacy: Ability to produce a desired outcome
• sanitary: Designed to keep things clean to prevent disease
• shutter: Part of a camera that opens to allow in light
• stricken: Affected by an illness, forceful blow, etc.