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Exam Date: Nov 15
Part 33
Word-of-the-Day
Alert
Pronunciation
/@"l3:t/
Alert is used as an Adjective, Noun and Transitive Verb
Meaning
Quick to notice and react to things around you (Adjective)
A warning about a possibly dangerous situation (Noun)
To warn someone of a possibly dangerous situation (Verb)
Usage
Teachers need to be alert to sudden changes in students’ behaviour (Adjective)
Six hours later she still wasn’t home so they alerted the police. (Verb)
WHO issues global alert over new virus. (Noun)
(Source: CLD- 2nd Edition)
Today’s Reading
The World Health Organisation has put out a global alert after two men were struck down with a previously unknown virus related to the deadly Sars infection and the common cold.
The UN health body’s alert comes after a 49-year-old Qatari man, affected by the virus, is critically ill in a hospital in Britain following a recent trip to Saudi Arabia, where it said a second patient with an almost identical virus had already died. (The Gulf News)
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