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Injuries and Accidents | Pre-intermediate Vocabulary
Talking about injuries and accidents in English
It’s a sad fact of life that sometimes people have injuries or accidents. This topic has specific and commonly-used vocabulary that can help you describe what happened.
Learn 15 words to describe injuries and accidents
Use these flashcards to learn the meaning of the terms for this unit. You can also practice the pronunciation by listening to the audio on each card.
Practice Exercises for Vocabulary about Injuries and Accidents
Vocabulary Quiz
Let us review 15 vocabulary terms to describe injuries and accidents
| alright | good enough, although not very good: |
| apply (something) | to spread a substance on a surface |
| arm | the long part at each side of the human body, ending in a hand |
| bandage | a long piece of soft cloth that you tie around an injured part of the body |
| be born | When a person or animal is born, they come out of their mother’s body and start to exist |
| broken | damaged and separated into pieces: |
| cover | to put something over something else, in order to protect or hide it |
| cut | an injury made when the skin is cut with something sharp |
| have a temperature | to be hotter than usual because you are sick |
| healthy | physically strong and well |
| minor | not important or serious |
| slip | to slide by accident and fall or almost fall |
| symptom | a physical feeling or problem that shows that you have a particular illness |
| swell | to increase in size: |
| infection | a disease in a part of your body that is caused by bacteria or a virus: |