Thursday, 26 March 2020

The Columbian Exchange - vocabulary

Study the words and try to recall how they were used in the video.

VERBS
NOUNS
ADJECTIVES
ADVERBS
to diminish
to expose sb to sth
to decrease / decrease of
to conquer
to succumb to
to starve / starvation
to grow crops
to breed animals
to double
to vaccinate sb / vaccine
to wipe sth out

variation
smallpox
measles
mumps
typhus
chicken pox
venereal syphilis
a culprit
a villain
malnutrition
a survivor
abundance of
famine
extinction
immunity / immune
an STD (Sexually Transmitted Disease)
an STI
susceptible to
infertile
revolutionary
demanding
impoverished
continually
dramatically
definitely
inadvertently

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