Vocabulary

• know about: To have information or understanding of a subject or situation.
• come up: To come closer to someone; approach
• point out: To make others aware of an idea
• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• happen on: To find or discover by accident.
• in terms of
• in relation to: Concerning; with reference to; regarding.
• sort: To organize things by putting them into groups
• context: Set of facts surrounding a person or event
• apparently: According to what you heard; from what can be seen
• engage: To start to fight with an enemy
• trigger: Lever on a gun that you pull to fire
• multiple: Having or involving more than one of something
• guarantee: To promise to repair a broken product
• matter: To be of great importance; to count
• aware: Knowing or feeling that something exists
• executive: A senior manager in a business or organization
• purpose: Reason for which something is done; aim; goal
• pressure: Anxiety caused by difficult problems
• relationship: Connection between two or more people or things
• political: Being active or interested in government matters
• establish: To set or create something to last for a long time
• affect: To cause a change in something else
• suspect: Person thought to have committed a crime
• wonder: Surprise caused by experiencing something amazing
• generally: Usually; as a rule; by, to or for most people
• administration: Act of giving e.g. medicine to a patient
• deliver: To give birth to a child; help a woman give birth
• record: Highest or most extreme level achieved
• breach: To break laws or barriers (e.g. walls)
• correspondent: Journalist, as one reporting from other countries
• minor: Not so large in size; not important or valuable
• appear: To be seen, become visible; come into sight
• detention: Act of keeping someone in jail or similar
• arrest: To attract someone's attention and hold interest
• sign: Indication that something exists or will happen
• british: Concerning the culture and people of British
• order: Religious or social group, as of nuns
• enforcement: Process of making sure that rules are followed
• information: Collection of facts and details about something
• citizen: Person who belongs to and has rights in a country
• subsequently: After something else has happened; as a result
• change: To exchange one set of clothes for another
• business: A company formed for making profit
• crackdown: Increased effort to enforce the law or a rule
• include: To make someone, something part of a group
• immigration: Process of moving your home to a new country
• isolate: To identify, consider, or deal with separately
• start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
• hold: To agree to keep something for someone
• vet: Short for 'veterinarian' or 'veterinary surgeon'
• deportation: Act of expelling a person from their native land
• ministry: Body of religious workers and leaders
• detain: To keep someone somewhere, e.g. in jail
• update: Addition of a current version of something
• ascertain: To try to work out or establish facts
• visa: Authorization to enter a foreign country
• deport: To force a person to leave a country
• draconian: (Of action, punishment) very strong or severe
• spokesman: Advocate who represents another’s policy/purpose
• purview: Area of authority, knowledge of influence