The Great Serum Race Vocabulary

pedestrian

• someone who walks

• a widespread sickness

• someone who lives in an area

• dangerous

treacherous

• deadly

• dangerous

• defensive

• determined

vanish

• arrive

• stay

• resist

• disappear

quarantine

• a hospital for widespread sickness

• a situation of separating ailing patients from healthy patients

• a highly contagious disease, with a fever and sore throat

• a dangerous situation

perish

• come back to life after being dead

• die

• widespread illness

• unfortunate news

rendezvous

• a French bread

• a necessary medicine

• separating sick from well

• an intentional meeting

The ___________________ conditions in Alaska made travel by dog sled very treacherous.

• eerie

• fierce

• pedestrian

• perish

Shoes and clothes made of ______________________ helped Alaskan natives survive in wet conditions.

• frostbite

• snowbound

• buckshot

• sealskin

The mushers were rushing the _________________________ ______________________________ to Nome as quickly as they could.

• epidemic plight

• lethal antitoxin

• diphtheria serum

• rendezvous gale

The _______________- force winds made it difficult to see the other musher at their _______________________ point.

• windswept, caretaker

• underside, railroad

• lethal, intercept

• gale, rendezvous