Vocabulary

• such as: For example; like
• tit for tat: An equivalent given in return; retaliation.
• rely on: To depend on someone or something
• specific: Precise; particular; just about that thing
• struggle: To try very hard to do something difficult
• engage: To start to fight with an enemy
• access: Way to enter a place, e.g. a station or stadium
• crisis: Unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty
• revenue: Money that is made by or paid to a business
• executive: A senior manager in a business or organization
• track: To use marks to follow a wild animal
• reverse: Setting that makes the vehicle go backward
• state: Region within a country, with its own government
• confront: To make someone, e.g. who has lied, face the truth
• direct: To tell someone in a very clear way to do something
• backlash: a strong negative reaction by a large number of people, for example to something that has recently changed in society
• giant: Tall, large, and powerful human-like creatures
• engagement: Something you must do at a set time; appointment
• stiff: Slang term for a dead body
• throw: To use your arm to make something fly in the air
• trade: A specific industry, e.g. shoe making
• dire: (E.g. of consequences) very serious
• rely: Depend on with full trust or confidence
• fall: Season after summer and before winter; Autumn
• era: Period characterized by particular events, people
• aim: Act of pointing something at a target
• treatment: Medicine or method to make someone healthier
• company: Good feeling from being with someone else
• broad: General; not detailed
• escalate: To increase in size, intensity, or scope
• limit: Point beyond which it is not possible to go
• mainstream: Prevailing current of thought
• order: Religious or social group, as of nuns
• operate: To control or handle something, such as a machine
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• own: To have something as your property
• chip: To break a small piece off something such as a cup
• business: A company formed for making profit
• chart: Drawing showing information in a clear way
• part: Division of a book
• start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
• world: All the humans, events, activities on the earth
• chuck: To throw carelessly or casually
• picture: General situation or state of being
• fight: To argue or quarrel with someone about something
• lose: To be unable to keep in check or control something
• allege: To state without proof
• tat: Lacework made by knotting or looping