Unit 9 vocabulary

Question 1

tentative

Answer 1

uncertain

Question 2

wary

Answer 2

careful and watchful

Question 3

reckless

Answer 3

not thinking about the danger or possible bad effects of your actions

Question 4

rash

Answer 4

do sth without considering what might happen

Question 5

exasperate

Answer 5

cause anger , annoyance

Question 6

aggravate

Answer 6

make worse

Question 7

soothe

Answer 7

make sth calmer or less painful

Question 8

placate

Answer 8

calm down sb

Question 9

artificial respiration

Answer 9

a technique for helping sb breath again after their breathing stops

Question 10

cardiac arrest

Answer 10

heart attack

Question 11

intesive care

Answer 11

special unit of a hospital for very sick patients

Question 12

invasive surgery

Answer 12

medical operarion which involves cutting or putting an instrument inyo a patient’s body

Question 13

life expectancy

Answer 13

average length of time that a person or an animal is expected to live

Question 14

local anesthetic

Answer 14

drug that stops feeling

Question 15

mortality rate

Answer 15

death rate

Question 16

organ transplant

Answer 16

surgical removal of an organ and it’s replacement with an organ taken from the body of another person

Question 17

contagious

Answer 17

able to spread from one person to another

Question 18

fatal

Answer 18

causing death

Question 19

incurable

Answer 19

cannot be cured

Question 20

prolonged

Answer 20

continuing for a long time

Question 21

contain

Answer 21

prevent sth dangerous from spreading

Question 22

intervention

Answer 22

involvement in a situation taken to improve it

Question 23

contract

Answer 23

catch (a disease or an illness)

Question 24

administer

Answer 24

give sb a medical treatment

Question 25

vulnerable

Answer 25

able to be hurt

Question 26

susceptible

Answer 26

having little resistance

Question 27

deficient

Answer 27

lacking in sth necessary

Question 28

consistency

Answer 28

quality of staying the same in different times

Question 29

disclose

Answer 29

reveal

Question 30

complacent

Answer 30

feeling satisfaction or lack of worry

Question 31

competent

Answer 31

capable

Question 32

seize

Answer 32

take by force

Question 33

expend

Answer 33

pay , make use of

Question 34

ratify

Answer 34

approve

Question 35

bill

Answer 35

proposal for a new law

Question 36

condone

Answer 36

treat bad behavior as acceptable , pardon

Question 37

condemn

Answer 37

disapprove

Question 38

debilitating

Answer 38

making sth mentally or physically weak

Question 39

strain

Answer 39

type of disease

Question 40

recurrent

Answer 40

happening again and again