Vocabulary for Reading 5: How to Kill Someone With a Chair

Vocabulary flashcards generated from the provided lecture notes for exam preparation.

prison

(noun) the place you go if you kill, steal, or harm people

“If you killed someone with a chair, you would go to _______.”

metabolism

(noun) the process by which your body changes food into energy

“Sitting in chairs all day slows your _______.”

circulation

(noun) the movement of blood around the body

“Exercise improves your blood _______.”

spine

(noun) the long bone in your back

“The football hit the player’s back and injured his _______.”

lungs

(noun) the two organs in your chest that you use to breathe air

“Smoking will injure your _______.”

diabetes

(noun) the disease in which your blood sugar goes too high or low

“If you eat too many sweets, you might get _______.”

depression

(noun) a mental illness that makes you feel very sad

“The man suffered deep _______ after his wife died.”

mobility

(noun) the ability to move freely

“An electric wheelchair has given my grandmother greater _______.”

evolution

(noun) the idea that plants and animals change over time

“During most of human _______, humans didn’t sit in chairs.”

standpoint

(noun) way of thinking about something, way of looking at something

“We have different _______s about the problem.”

exist

(verb) to be real or present; to be

“Do you think that kappa _______ in our world?”

anatomy

(noun) the structure of the human or animal body

“Studying _______ helps us understand how the body works.”

ordinary

(adjective) regular, not special

“Our family isn’t rich or famous. We’re just _______.”

squat

(verb) to sit by bending your knees and lowering your body

“The child likes to _______ on the ground while playing with her toys.”

posture

(noun) the way you hold your body

“Bad _______ can give you back pains.”

germs

(noun) very small living things that can make you sick

“You should wash your hands before eating to wash the _______ off your hands.”

disgusting

(adjective) so bad and shocking that it makes you feel sick

“What’s that _______ smell”?

angle

(noun) the space between two lines that meet at a point

“The Tower of Pisa tilts at a 5.5° _______.

digestive system

(noun phrase) the system that breaks down food from your mouth to your bottom

“If you eat too much junk food, your _______ will work too hard.”

degree

(noun) a unit for measuring temperatures or angles, shown by the symbol ° written after a number

“Today is very hot. It’s 37 _______s Celsius.

realistic

(adjective) something that can happen in the real world

“Learning 1,000 new words in one night is not _______.”