Pandemic

When an infectious disease spreads over a country or many countries at the same time



Word Structure

pan-DEM-ik

Sentence Examples

The Black Death was a pandemic.

The pandemic spread quickly.

Sanitation can slow a pandemic.

Semantic Relatives

plague

spread

virus

Morphological Relatives

epidemic

endemic



Textbook

Explore World History Chapter 5 by Attainment

Deeper Dive

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