Vocabulary

• along with: In addition to; together with.
• on board: Being on a ship, plane, or other vehicle
• ultimate: Basic; original; most significant
• crisis: Unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty
• failure: When things go wrong; lack of function
• spread: A big meal, often laid out as a buffet
• significantly: In a way that is important or noticeable
• separate: Being different from or unrelated to another
• reality: What is true, as opposed to what is imagined
• blame: To say someone is responsible for something bad
• prime: To get a person ready for; prepare someone
• brutal: Extremely violent or mean
• authority: The power to give orders to people
• state: Region within a country, with its own government
• court: To act in a way to shows you wish to marry someone
• judge: Person who decides on the results of a contest
• indicate: To show something; direct attention to; point out
• observe: To celebrate a particular holiday/religious event
• seek: To ask someone for help
• administration: Act of giving e.g. medicine to a patient
• board: Surface for posting or showing information
• terrain: Characteristics (e.g. rough) of a piece of land
• humanity: Quality of being understanding or sympathetic
• outrageous: Exceeding the usual limits; far too extreme
• relief: Aid given to people in need as after war/disaster
• trade: A specific industry, e.g. shoe making
• defense: Argument in support of something
• arrest: To attract someone's attention and hold interest
• uncertainty: Feeling of not really knowing what will happen
• foul: Terrible in smell, taste, appearance or morals
• civilian: Ordinary person who is not in the army
• crash: To damage an object by causing it to hit something
• point: An item to be discussed
• middle: Place that is halfway between two things
• rise: To wake up and get out of bed after sleeping
• step: Movement done as part of a particular dance
• change: To exchange one set of clothes for another
• mourn: To feel or show extreme sadness
• helicopter: Aircraft with spinning blades at the top
• start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
• return: To hit something back to the other player or team
• overnight: (Becoming famous, etc.) in a short amount of time
• country: An area of land that is controlled by a government
• foggy: With cloudy air that makes seeing things difficult
• touch: To affect feelings, especially by causing sympathy
• starvation: Extreme hunger; death from lack of food
• dead: Not alive
• leadership: Quality of being able to guide or influence others
• burial: Act or ceremony of burying, e.g. of the dead
• dam: Wall built to stop the flow of water
• spokesman: Advocate who represents another’s policy/purpose
• equivalence: When something is equal to something else
• bc: Before Christ; used after dates/years
• ayatollah: Important religious or political leader in Iran