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