Matching Pairs NYT Article vocabularyOnline version Learning to Live with the Virus by Ann Kill 1 to persist 2 a preview 3 to come to terms with something 4 mandatory 5 to impose (e.g. rules, restrictions) 6 to be devoid of something 7 a precaution 8 a lockdown 9 abundant 10 to refrain from something 11 an outbreak 12 social distancing 13 restrictions 14 to embrace something (e.g. changes) to accept something unpleasant by learning to deal with it something done to protect people or things against possible harm or trouble to stop yourself from doing something taking steps such as encouraging working from home, closing schools, and cancelling large events in order to slow the spread of a disease an occasion or time when access to a place is restricted because of some danger to introduce something such as a new law or new system, and force people to accept it to accept something something that gives an idea of what a future event will be like rules, actions, or situations that limit or control someone or something required by law, obligatory to be completely without something the sudden start of a disease or a war existing in large quantities; more than enough to continue to exist