Vocabulary

• speak out: To express your opinion frankly and publicly, especially about something that you disagree with.
• against you: In opposition to you.
• expect: To believe something is probably going to happen
• encourage: To increase the chance of something happening
• suspect: Person thought to have committed a crime
• foundation: Base or important starting point
• suppress: To prevent the display of emotion or feeling
• democracy: System of government in which everyone is equal
• security: Department in a company in charge of protection
• raise: To increase a bet above another when playing cards
• colleague: Person you work or cooperate with
• receive: To get something someone has given or sent to you
• text: To send a message by phone or other device
• place: To put someone in a particular type of situation
• committee: Group of people who do or decide something
• system: Set of organized, planned ideas that work together
• threaten: To cause something potential harm, or put at risk
• government: Group of people and system that rule a nation
• head: To hit a ball with your head in a game
• shut: To stop being open for business
• world: All the humans, events, activities on the earth
• work: The product of some artistic or literary endeavor
• freedom: State of being free, not being controlled
• happen: To take place or occur
• give: Degree of flexibility in something, a material
• bounty: Supply of something good in plentiful amounts
• advocacy: Request for change
• pro: Reason given in support of something
• activist: A person who tries to change a government, society
• people: Persons sharing culture, country, background, etc.
• tell: To (strongly) advise a person to do something
• report: Account of the necessary facts and information
• national: Concerning a nation as a whole
• message: Main idea or theme in a story, book, or film
• shock: The passage of an electricity through the body
• kidnap: To take someone and demand money to return them
• careful: Trying not to make mistakes; working slowly
• judiciary: System of judges and courts in a country
• online: Connected to the internet
• eve: The time just before something happens