Reading Vocabulary 5 Flashcards
Dependent?
-depending on a person or thing for aid, support, life
Commitment?
-engagement, promise, involvement
Combat?
-to oppose in battle; fight against
Evident?
- easy to see or understand; readily apparent
- obvious
Plague?
-any widespread and usually highly contagious disease with a high fatality rate (Plage, Pest)
discrepancy?
-disagreement, as between facts or claims
Sanitation?
-the state of being clean and conducive(beneficial) to health (Hygiene)
Unsanitary?
-not conducive to or promoting health; dirty, unhygienic
Adequate?
- able to fulfill a need or requirement without being abundant, outstanding
- enough
Diarrheal?
- excessive and frequent evacuation of watery feces (Kot)
- >Durchfall
Regard?
- to think or consider in a particular way ->betrachten
- to look at, observe
NCD stands for? The meaning?
- non communicable disease
- not caused by infectious agents
Emerged?
- to come into view
- >appear
Striking?
-attracting attention; fine; impressive
severely?
-strictly, harshly, sharply, extremely, hard, dangerously
Appropriate?
- right, or suitable
- suitable for a particular person
Maternal?
-related through one’s mother
Supply?
- the act of providing,
- to make available for us
Distribution?
- to divide in portions
- to separate into categories
Profound?
- showing or requiring great, deep knowledge or understanding
- deeply felt or held; intense
Expenditures?
- outgoing, input
- Ausgaben, Aufwand
Strain?
- to pull, draw, or stretch tight (anspannen)
- Belastung, Anstrengung/ belasten, anstrengen
Hardship?
-condition of life hard to endure (Not, Elend)
Insurance?
-promise of reimbursement in case of loss
Generic drug?
-drugs which are usually cheaper that brand-name drugs
Patent?
-an invention protected by such a grant
Remarkable?
-worthy of note or attentions (bemerkenswert)
Discouraging?
-to deprive(berauben) of confidence, hope, or spirit
->entmutigend
Contaminated?
- to make impure(unrein) or unclean by contact or mixture
- >verunreinigen, verseuchen
Incentive?
-a motivation influence; stimulus (Anreiz)