English vocab 9&10

• Develop


  To grow or cause to grow and become more mature, advanced, or elaborate
• Tactile


  Of or connected with the sense of touch
• Impaired


  Was weakened or damaged
• Regain


  Obtain possession or use of (something) again after losing it
• Desire


  A strong feeling of wanting to have something or wishing for something to happen
• Passion


  A strong and barely controllable emotion
• Impact


  The action of one object coming forcibly into contact with another
• Prototype


  The original model of something from which other forms are copied
• Beat


  To defeat or do better than
• Solve


  To find an answer to a problem
• Plague


  To cause worry, pain, or difficulty to someone or something
• Tripping


  A journey in which you go somewhere, usually for a short time, and come back
• Tangled


  Twisted into an untidy mess
• Drag


  To move something by pulling it along a surface, usually the ground
• Bearable


  If an unpleasant situation is bearable, you can accept or deal with it
• Alert


  Quick to see, understand, and act in a particular situation
• Threat


  Suggestion that something unpleasant or violent will happen, especially if a particular action or order is not followed
• Symptom


  A physical or mental change that is caused by a particular condition or disease
• Affect


  To have an influence on someone or something, or to cause a change
• Wander


  To walk around slowly in a relaxed way without any clear purpose or direction
• Caretaker


  A person employed to take care of a large building, such as a school, and who deals with the cleaning, repairs, and maintenance
• Nebulizer


  A device that changes a liquid into a fine spray so that it can be breathed in
• Aim


  A result that your actions or intentions are intended to achieve
• Makerspace


  A place where people can come together to create or invent things either using traditional tools or making that has been invented for a particular purpose
• Device


  An object
• Treatment


  The way something is behaved towards
• Provide


  To give someone something that they need
• Source


  The place something comes from, starts from, or the cause of something
• Sustainable


  Able to continue over a period of time
• Probe


  To try to discover information that other people don't want to know, by asking questions
• Convert


  To cause something/someone to change in form or character carefully and not suddenly
• Current


  Of the present time
• Desalination


  The process of removing salt from sea water
• Potable


  Clear and safe to drink
• Aid


  To help
• Coverage


  The reporting of a particular important event/subject
• Conventional


  Traditional, ordinary
• Layer


  A level of material, such as a type of sock/glass, that is different from the material above, below, or around it
• Impenetrable


  Impossible to see through/go through
• Perforate


  To make a hole/holes in something