Vocabulary

• think of: To look on as (being something specific); consider
• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• speak out: To express your opinion frankly and publicly, especially about something that you disagree with.
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• in public: In a place where anyone can see or hear you.
• family members: People related by blood, marriage, or adoption.
• hold water: To be logical, consistent, or sound; to stand up to scrutiny.
• in the world: Used to emphasize a question expressing surprise, confusion, or disbelief.
• pattern: Model to follow in making or doing something
• tackle: To start working on a difficult problem
• exclusive: Being available only to people with a lot of money
• traumatic: Causing upsetting emotional effects over time
• extent: Point, level or limit to which something reaches
• spare: To make (money or time) available for
• distress: State of great sadness, anxiety or pain
• estimate: Guess or calculation of cost, size or value
• abuse: To mistreat or be cruel towards someone
• suffer: To experience pain, illness, or injury
• absurd: So foolish as to be difficult to believe
• emerge: To rise or appear out of some background
• region: Part of a country, of the world, area, etc.
• section: A part of a whole
• grant: To admit an opinion is true but not fully agreeing
• religious: Following the rules and beliefs of a faith
• film: Thin layer that covers something
• disgusting: Having a very bad taste
• mass: Religious ceremony in some Christian churches
• haunt: To remain in the mind causing worry, sadness, pain
• torture: Hurting someone to force them to give information
• construction: Act of building something; thing that is built
• era: Period characterized by particular events, people
• fall: Season after summer and before winter; Autumn
• correspondent: Journalist, as one reporting from other countries
• investigate: To try to find out facts; to carry out research
• satellite: Device sent into space that aids communication
• guard: To keep watch over something to protect it
• detention: Act of keeping someone in jail or similar
• analysis: Careful study to better understand something
• obtain: To be given or to earn something through efforts
• offer: Price you say you are willing to pay for something
• memorize: To study something so that you remember it
• gang: Group that you disapprove of, e.g. criminals
• brutality: Extremely mean or violent act or treatment
• refuge: Somewhere you can find safety or hide
• corridor: Passageway between rooms in a buildings
• government: Group of people and system that rule a nation
• detail: Small part of something; tiny fact
• bucket: Open container with a handle used to carry liquids
• horrific: Terrifying and shocking
• testimony: Public statement of personal religious experiences
• anonymity: When no one knows your identity
• torment: Great mental or physical pain
• hold: To agree to keep something for someone
• remove: To get rid of something completely
• firsthand: Received directly from a source
• weak: Not having a strong character
• full: Containing all the parts; complete
• add: To include as well
• barbaric: Uncivilized; cruel and wild
• usual: Being the way things occur most of the time
• tell: To (strongly) advise a person to do something
• detain: To keep someone somewhere, e.g. in jail
• move: To cause someone to have certain emotions
• man: Humans in general, including male and female
• vocational: Concerning the training in special job skills
• call: A order or request for action
• speak: To be able to use a certain language
• muslim: Of or relating to Islam
• eyewitness: Someone who sees and event with their own eyes
• handcuff: Police object used to restrain hands of criminals
• complicity: Involvement with someone in a crime, etc.