COVID: One year on












1. outbreak: The relatively recent outbreak of street violence and protests largely reflect the frustration of young people unable to find jobs.

2. take stock: It was time to stand back and take stock of his career.

3. sequence: The action sequences are the best part of the film.

4. pandemic: The intelligence estimate portrays the pandemic as the bad side of globalisation.

5. take hold: The fever was beginning to take hold.

6. wimpy: She was too wimpy to say what she really thought.

7. sheer: We were impressed by the sheer size of the cathedral.

8. kicks in: The storm is expected to kick in shortly after sunrise.

9. genome: Billions of dollars will have been poured into the human genome project.



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