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