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Monday, August 26, 2013

Vocabulary: Fall #2

Obesity: The condition of being overweight.
Accumulate: Acquire an increasing number or quantity of.
Mass: Typically large body of water with no definite shape.
           -The majority of
Disease: A disorder of structure in a human, plant, or animal that create symptoms affecting a specific spot.
Diet: Specific food a person, animal, or community habitually eat.
Prevalence: Fact of being commonness.
Stigma: Mark of disgrace associated with certain circumstances, quality, or person.
Prevent(able)- To keep from happening
Adolescent: Process of development from child into an adult
Cardiovascular: Of relating to or involving heart and blood vessels
Excessive: More than normal
Mechanism: Arrangement of connected parts in a machine: natural process by which something takes place.
Sedentary: Inactive; (a person) spending too much time seated
Predispose: To give tendency to beforehand; make liable
Syndrome: A group of symptoms that are characteristic of a specific disorder, disease, and such like

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