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 | |