Vocabulary

• ward off: To avert, deflect, or repel (something dangerous or undesirable).
• at home: In one's own residence or country.
• right in front: Directly ahead; in a position immediately before someone or something.
• play out: To use up or exhaust
• in turn: One after the other in a sequence or rotation.
• aside from
• territory: Area of land defended by an animal
• government: Group of people and system that rule a nation
• foreign: Being of a different place or country
• dispute: To argue with someone about something
• accuse: To claim that someone has done something wrong
• dangerous: Involving the chance of hurt or damage; risky
• south: Direction to your right when facing the rising sun
• unrest: Disturbance, e.g. of crowd in protest against
• rig: To dishonestly fix the result of elections, games
• provocative: Causing anger/sexual interest, e.g. deliberately
• loom: To appear in a large, unclear, or threatening form
• sea: Very large group of people, similar-looking things
• vietnam: A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea; achieved independence from France in
• china: A communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world
• embassy: Building where an ambassador works