Health and Illness
Jo's knee joint _____ up after someone kicked it during the match. She could hardly bend it.
swelled
Players love it when the crowd starts booing / chanting / screaming their name.
chanting
We live in a very __________ community in which everybody knows what everybody else is up to.
close-knit
Dan has been ______ with a tropical disease. However, the doctor says that there is a cure.
diagnosed
In ice hockey, players who commit a foul are sent to the foul-hall / bad-spot / sin-bin.
sin-bin
It's tough living in a _________ area where nobody has a job or much money.
deprived
A ______ on drug smuggling by boarder police has been successful. Over a hundred arrests have been made.
crackdown
Pilling was s_______ in the 60th minute of the match because he picked up an injury.
substituted
At university, Delia avoided me like the ________. I think she thought I was boring.
plague
The government is worried about the latest _______ of cholera in the impoverished south of the country.
outbreak
The horse was way out in front for most of the race but f______ over the last hundred meters and finished second.
faded
Although brothers, Tim and Simon are like ________ and cheese. They have nothing in common.
chalk
The _______ ignored the family of beggars sitting on the side of the road.
passerby
Don't give up. You need to have the ________ of your convictions.
courage
My _______ upbringing didn't prepare me for this. As a child, I had everything I needed, and I didn't know how hard life could be.
sheltered