#3 COVID: One year on

This time I'm gonna shares some vocabs in the podcast of BBC world service.

Covid: One year on

1. outbreak

The outbreak of the riot happened in this street where people were initially just protesting and chanting out loud.

2. take stock

Take stock in how things are going, what changes you'd like to make, and set the plan in motion for the fall.

3.  pandemic

Clearly, it was just an accident of history, a fluke, a momentary incursion of an otherwise universal pandemic.

4. take hold

From the reforms that followed, a new life began to take hold, and more than one innovation was meritorious.

5. wimpy

Alone, most of the electronic bits are wimpy and would die of nonuse.

6. sheer

 It is difficult to convey the sheer complexity of the situation.

7. kicks in

The region's profligate economies will struggle for longer as austerity kicks in.

8. genome

Many knowledgeable people have a deep dislike of the Human Genome Project.

9. reveal

When we opened on the former things good record, the face will unconsciously reveal the truth's smile.

10. lockdown

The campus was placed on lockdown shortly after the shootings were reported, and Monday's classes were canceled.

11. swept across

Within minutes the brown patch of sky enveloped me, as a violent storm swept across the dunes.