unit 2 a healthy body Flashcards
contact sport
a sport in which the participants necessarily come into bodily contact with one another.
extreme sports
Extreme sports is a sub-category of sports that are described as any kind of sport “of a character or kind farthest removed from the ordinary or average”. These kinds of sports often carry out the potential risk of serious and permanent physical injury and even death.
lacrosse
chogan
rodeo
cowboys do it
umpire
referee
real up and coming talent
likely to achieve success soon or in the near future:
I just need to take down some details
write the things that you are listening or looking
tedious
boring
fanatical
ta asobi
malnourished
mal‧nour‧ished /ˌmælˈnʌrɪʃt◂ $ -ˈnɜː-, -ˈnʌ-/ adjective
someone who is malnourished is ill or weak because they have not had enough good food to eat
malnourished children
metabolism
me‧tab‧o‧lis‧m /məˈtæbəlɪzəm/ noun [countable, uncountable]
the chemical processes by which food is changed into energy in your body
This drug speeds up your metabolism.
protein/carbohydrate/alcohol etc metabolism
The vast majority of alcohol metabolism occurs in the liver.
metabolism of
the metabolism of fat by the liver
crash diet
crash ˌdiet noun [countable]
an attempt to lose a lot of weight quickly by strictly limiting how much you eat
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crash diet
• One needed to go on a crash diet, the other was in the middle of a nervous breakdown.
• A crash diet will leave you hungry, you will binge and you will not get anywhere.
• So to maximise the benefits to your metabolic rate, resolve never to crash diet again.
obese
o‧bese /əʊˈbiːs $ oʊ-/ ●○○ adjective
very fat in a way that is unhealthy► see thesaurus at fat
underweight
un‧der‧weight /ˌʌndəˈweɪt◂ $ -ər-/ adjective
weighing less than is expected or usual OPP overweight
Women who smoke risk giving birth to underweight babies.
► see thesaurus at thin
Examples from the Corpus
underweight
• The doctor says that I’m underweight and has put me on a special diet.
• Half the under-fives are underweight, and nearly 500,000 die each year.
• The child is born seriously underweight, and underweight babies can not catch up with large ones.
• Women who consume large amounts of caffeine are more likely to give birth to underweight babies.
• a premature, underweight baby
sedentary
sed‧en‧ta‧ry /ˈsedəntəri $ -teri/ adjective
1 formal spending a lot of time sitting down, and not moving or exercising very much
sedentary life/job/lifestyle etc
health problems caused by our sedentary lifestyles
2 technical a sedentary group of people tend always to live in the same place
a sedentary people living north of the Danube
Examples from the Corpus
sedentary
• Quite simply, like millions of other people, we had become sedentary.
• America’s young people are too sedentary.
• The exercise program was aimed at men in their fifties and sixties who were previously sedentary.
• By their mid-40s, more than 40 percent of males and more than 80 percent of females are sedentary.
• I tend now to the sedentary, and when I walk in the city I prefer to amble.
snip
snip1 /snɪp/ verb (snipped, snipping) [intransitive, transitive]
to cut something by making quick cuts with scissors
I snipped the string and untied the parcel.
snip something off (=remove it by snipping)
Snip the ends of the beans off before you cook them.
► see thesaurus at cut
→ See Verb table
Examples from the Corpus
snip
• Andrews snipped and sewed the masterpiece into one-piece garments.
• He stepped forward and allowed him to snip away at the stitching.
• She snipped crisp green stalks with a pair of scissors.
wriggle
wrig‧gle1 /ˈrɪɡəl/ verb
1 [intransitive] to twist your body from side to side with small quick movements
Stop wriggling and let me put your T-shirt on.
wriggle under/through/into
He wriggled through the window.
The dog wriggled free and ran off.
► see thesaurus at move
2 [transitive] to move a part of your body backwards and forwards with small movements
She took off her shoes and wriggled her toes.
