MY MINI-DICTIONARY

Melissa Gutiérrez Michaels

Grupo 9
• Plaster: This device is used when people are broken. Example:
I have to wear this plaster cast on my arm for a month.
• Swelling: Is the enlargement of organs caused by accumulation
of excess fluid in tissues. Example: I was next to a flower when
a bee stung me and made me a swelling.
• Childbirth: Is the culmination of a human pregnancy or
gestation period. Example: 20% of women died in childbirth.
• Illnesses: can be defined as a state of poor health. Example:
People often caught illnesses while they were in the hospital
and died.
• Deck: A platform extending horizontally from one side of a ship
to the other. Example: she went up on deck to see what she
could do to help.
• Insurance: Is when we get a protection for our lives.
Example: He had casualty insurance, so the family could
pay bills after his accident, until he could return to work.
• Toothpaste: A paste used for cleaning the teeth, applied
with a toothbrush. Example: Every morning I use the
toothpaste.
• Leech: Animal which sticks to your body and suck blood.
• Stick: A piece of wood, such as a tree branch, that is used
for fuel, cut for lumber, or shaped for a specific purpose.
• Trouser: Garment that is used to cover part of the waist
to the ankles of people. Example: On my birthday gave
me a pair of trousers.
• Brave: Possessing or displaying courage; valiant. Example : To
brave the storm.
• Lifeboat: A boat used for rescue service. Example: All 1000
passengers were in the lifeboats and not one passenger died
in the fire.
• Sickness: The condition of being sick; illness.
• Diseases: A pathological condition of a part, organ, or system
of an organism resulting from various causes, such as
infection, genetic defect, or environmental stress, and
characterized by an identifiable group of signs or symptoms.
Example: the disease was killing him.
• Strange: Not previously known; unfamiliar. Example: Many of
diferents methods seem very strange today.
• Instead: As a substitute or an equivalent. Example: Having
planned to drive, we walked instead.
• Curing: Restoration of health; recovery from disease.
Example: thanks to the curing I was able to move my arm.
• Odour: The property of a substance that gives it a
characteristic scent or smell. Example: they use perfum to
cover body odours.
• Rescued: To set free, as from danger or imprisonment;
save. Example: they all recued someone.
• Drop: The distance through which something falls or
drops.
• Until: Up to the time of. Example: we danced until
dawn.
• Colleague: A fellow member of a profession, staff, or
academic faculty; an associate.
• Manage: To direct or control the use of the things.
• Customer: One that buys goods or services.
• Rich: Possessing great material. Example: Now that he
was rich he was not thought ignorant any more, but
simply eccentric