1. Killer Plagues Name: __________________________
Workshop #2 Vocabulary
Killer Plagues
Name: __________________________

2. What do you think they mean??
Abandoned
Contagious
Contaminated
Courageous
Epidemic
Estimate
Expose
Extensive
Feasible
Impact
Infect
Internal
Laboratory
Resistance
vaccine

3. Abandoned
Verb
Left behind
The crew had to abandoned the sinking ship.

4. Contagious Adjective Spreadable by touch or through the air
Chicken pox and the flu are contagious diseases.

5. Contaminated Verb Infected
The doctor used a new needle with every patient so she wouldn’t contaminate anyone.

6. Courageous Adjective Brave
Many courageous people marched in the protest against segregation.

7. Epidemic Noun Adjective
The rapid spread of a disease among many people
Adjective
Spreading rapidly to many people
A flu epidemic forced many students to miss school.

8. Estimate Verb To make a guess related to a number, amount, or size
We estimated that it would take us five hours to finish the project.

9. Expose Verb To leave without protection
Wear gloves so that you don’t expose your hands to the harsh cold.

10. Extensive Adjective In-depth, comprehensive
We did extensive research before writing our report.

11. feasible Adjective Possible
I think it’s feasible that I can be on the debate team and play football this season.

12. impact Noun An effect or result
Keeping the store open an extra hour had a great impact on sales.

13. infect Verb To give someone a disease
Mosquitoes can infect people with diseases.

14. internal Verb Inside something, like your body
Dana was hit by a car and suffered internal bleeding.

15. Laboratory Noun A place where scientists do research
The scientist was conducting several experiments in her laboratory.

16. resistance Noun The ability to fight off or overcome something
He developed a sore throat because his resistance was low.

17. Vaccine
Noun
A substance that protects people against getting a disease
Scientists are working on making a vaccine for Ebola.