Vocabulary

• outside of: Located or situated beyond the boundaries or confines of something.
• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• down with: Suffering from an illness.
• wait on: To serve customers in a restaurant, shop, etc.
• grab: To take and hold something quickly
• properly: In an appropriate or correct manner
• determine: To control exactly how something will be or act
• attempt: To try to do something challenging or difficult
• exclusive: Being available only to people with a lot of money
• confidence: Feeling that you can do well at something
• demand: Desire customers have to buy product, service
• failure: When things go wrong; lack of function
• stunning: Causing amazement, e.g. because so very good
• alert: Being aware and able to respond quickly
• concern: To be about a particular topic
• desperately: In a way that shows you don't have much hope
• crowd: To force too many things, people into
• confront: To make someone, e.g. who has lied, face the truth
• direct: To tell someone in a very clear way to do something
• grip: To hold someone's interest
• edge: An advantage you have over others
• transparent: Being open to see and to public criticism
• seemingly: Appearing to be but may not actually be; probably
• remarkable: Interesting and unexpected, worthy of notice
• congress: Meeting of elected or appointed representatives
• security: Department in a company in charge of protection
• reaction: Bodily response to a drug or something eaten
• fall: Season after summer and before winter; Autumn
• stage: To organize an event to gain public interest
• secret: Kept hidden from others; Known only to a few people
• buck: To resist or go against the trend
• investigation: Search for information about something
• enforcement: Process of making sure that rules are followed
• learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
• rally: Public meeting to support or oppose something
• continue: To do something without stopping, or after pausing
• build: Your physical shape; physique
• unfold: (Of a situation) to be told or revealed
• event: Any social gathering; occasion; planned activity
• point: An item to be discussed
• resign: To leave a job because you want to
• secretary: Office worker who makes appointments, etc.
• service: Work that a person does to assist others
• area: Amount of measured space
• defensive: Protecting something, yourself from attack
• yell: A sudden loud cry or shout
• climb: To rise gradually and steadily to a higher point
• allege: To state without proof
• happen: To take place or occur
• tactical: Doing things to get the result you want; planned
• hear: To be aware of sound; to perceive with the ear
• assassin: Person who kills a public figure
• assassination: Murder of a public figure by surprise attack
• butler: Senior male servant in a household
• swat: To hit, slap, or smack, e.g. so as to kill a fly
• homeland: Country where you were born
• gunman: Person who shoots a gun (as specified)
• abc: First letters of the Roman alphabet