hastened | hurried |
contagious | easily transmitted |
congenital | present from birth |
contentious | likely to disagree |
ingestion | taking food |
incision | a cut |
to notch | to make a V-shaped cut in a surface |
recurring | (of injury) coming back |
vertigo | fear of height |
to nausea | to get sick at sea |
to press forward | to move through sth |
to encapsulate | to contain |
bystander | witness |
respectively | in the order mentioned |
framework for sth | the set of principles used to decide sth |
to trample | to cause damage |
mundane | boring, uneventful |
to discard sth | to get rid of sth |
checkered | having good and bad moments |
quick fix | a fast way of improving a situation |
salubrious | helpgiving |
insalubrious | not helpgiving |
to have first hand experience | to experience sth by oneself |
inundated | flooded |
to jump the gun | to be quick when doing sth |