Subject: Vocabulary List #4 / Health

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Words Meaning / Example

Verbs
1. prevent keep (something) from happening or arising
Actions must be taken to prevent further accidents.
Nouns
2. malnutrition the unhealthy condition that results from not eating enough food:
poor nutrition
Each year six million children under the age of 5 years die because of
diseases that result from  malnutrition.
3. survival the act or fact of living longer than another person or thing
He had nothing to live for, but somehow the human instinct for
survival overcame all the odds.
4. depression a mood disorder marked especially by sadness, inactivity, difficulty in
thinking and concentration
Feelings of depression and despair are common.
5. insomnia habitual sleeplessness; inability to sleep
True insomnia, the inability to get to sleep or maintain sleep is
actually fairly rare.
6. disease a disorder of structure or function in a human, animal, or plant,
especially one that produces specific signs or symptoms or that
affects a specific location and is not simply a direct result of physical
injury
Obesity is a major factor in illnesses such as heart disease and certain
forms of diabetes.
Adjectives
7. impressive evoking admiration
It was an impressive view of the mountains.
8. mysterious difficult or impossible to understand
His colleague had vanished in mysterious circumstances.