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reading vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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outdoors | Any area outside buildings or shelter, typically that far away from human habitation. |
indoors | The area or space inside a building. |
occurrence | something that happens or exists a common/everyday/frequent/regular occurrence Vandalism used to be a rare occurrence here |
death toll | the number of people killed in an accident, a war, a disaster, etc. |
otherwise | used to state what the result would be if something did not happen or if the situation were different. |
lessen | Make or become less; diminish. |
injure | injure somebody/something/yourself to harm yourself or somebody else physically, especially in an accident. |
struck | past tense, past participle of strikestrike something (+ adv./prep.) (formal) to hit or kick a ball, |
homeless | having no home The program has been set up to help homeless people. |
countless | ​very many; too many to be counted or mentioned. |