Flu Season Word Search
A free Flu Season word search you can play straight in the browser. The 12-word list draws on the holidays, weather, and activities of a season, hidden across a 15×15 grid in every direction. Drag through the letters to mark a word off.
Words to find: INFLUENZA, VACCINE, FEVER, COUGH, SNEEZE, FATIGUE, SNOW, FROST, FREEZE, BLIZZARD, SLEET, HAIL.
Diagonals are where most players stall. Once you are down to the last word or two, sweep the diagonals deliberately.
Flu Season word list, defined
General dictionary meanings, not specific to this puzzle's theme.
- INFLUENZA /ˌɪnfluˈenzə/ · noun
- Influenza is a contagious respiratory infection caused by influenza viruses. In everyday English, it is usually called flu. Related: flu, grip.
- VACCINE /vækˈsiːn/ · noun and verb
- As a noun, a vaccine is a biological preparation that stimulates the immune system to develop protection against a specific disease or pathogen. As a verb, to vaccinate means to administer a vaccine, thereby providing or aiming to provide immunity. Related: immunization, inoculation, immuniser.
- FEVER /ˈfiːvər/ · noun
- An abnormally high body temperature, typically a symptom of illness or infection. By extension, a state of intense excitement, agitation, or contagious enthusiasm. Related: temperature, pyrexia, febrility, frenzy.
- COUGH /kɒf/ (UK), /kɔːf/ or /kɑːf/ (US) · noun, verb
- A cough is a sudden, forceful expulsion of air from the lungs, typically to clear the throat or airways of irritants, mucus, or foreign particles. As a verb, it means to expel air in this way. Related: clear the throat, hack, wheeze.
- SNEEZE /sniːz/ · verb and noun
- To sneeze is to expel air suddenly through the nose and mouth, usually as an involuntary reflex. As a noun, a sneeze is the sudden, explosive act or sound that produces this expulsion.
- FATIGUE /fəˈtiːɡ/ · noun & verb
- As a noun, extreme tiredness resulting from mental or physical exertion or illness; as a verb (now chiefly technical), to tire or weaken someone or something. Related: tiredness, weariness, exhaustion, lassitude.
- SNOW /snoʊ/ · noun, verb
- Snow is atmospheric water frozen into ice crystals that falls to the ground as flakes or accumulates as a white covering. As a verb, snow means to fall as snow or to cover or obscure something with snow. Related: snowfall, snowflake, snowstorm, flurry.
- FROST /frɒst/ (UK), /frɔːst/ (US) · noun
- A thin layer of ice crystals that forms on surfaces when water vapour freezes at or below freezing temperature; also the condition of freezing cold weather that kills or damages plants. Related: ice, rime, hoarfrost, freeze.
- FREEZE /friːz/ · verb
- To solidify or cause a liquid to solidify as a result of cold; more broadly, to stop moving suddenly, to become fixed and immobile, or to suspend something such as prices, wages, or assets temporarily. Related: congeal, solidify, chill, harden.
- BLIZZARD /ˈblɪz.əd/ · noun
- A severe snowstorm with strong sustained winds and heavy blowing snow that drastically reduces visibility, typically lasting several hours; more generally, any overwhelming rush or flurry of something. Related: snowstorm, whiteout, tempest, gale.
- SLEET /sliːt/ · noun, verb
- Sleet is wintry precipitation consisting of ice pellets or, in British usage, a mixture of rain and snow. As a verb, it means to fall as sleet. Related: ice pellets, icy rain, mixed precipitation, hail.
- HAIL /heɪl/ · noun, verb, and interjection
- Hail is precipitation in the form of hard balls or lumps of ice. As a verb, it means to greet someone enthusiastically or call out to attract attention; as an interjection, it is a formal greeting or acclamation. Related: hailstones, ice pellets, greeting, salutation.
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