Vocabulary

• slip in: To enter a place quietly or unnoticed.
• pass as: To pretend to be somebody else successfully.
• for someone: On behalf of or intended for a particular person.
• search for: To try to find someone or something.
• on the street: Located on or along a public road in a town or city.
• dead or alive: Regardless of whether someone is living or dead; in any condition.
• on the ground: Located on the surface of the earth.
• look for: To try to find a thing or person that is lost
• going on: To continue doing something
• run by: To be managed or controlled by someone or a group.
• slip into: To quickly put on (a piece of clothing).
• evidence of: Facts, objects, or signs that make you believe that something is true.
• put out: To publish, e.g. a book
• for fear of: Because of anxiety or apprehension that something undesirable might happen.
• overwhelmed: To defeat something or someone completely
• scenario: An imagined sequence of events in a plan/project
• overwhelming: To defeat something or someone completely
• enormous: Huge; very big; very important
• multiple: Having or involving more than one of something
• ritual: Performed as part of a ceremony
• treat: To pay for the food or enjoyment of someone else
• capacity: Ability to hold, involve or contain (e.g. liquids)
• fear: Unpleasant feeling caused by being aware of danger
• demand: Desire customers have to buy product, service
• slip: Act of beginning to fall from losing balance
• compound: Series of buildings that are walled or fenced off
• bit: Device put in a horse's mouth to control it
• distress: State of great sadness, anxiety or pain
• collapse: To fold (e.g. a stroller) down to make it smaller
• condition: To improve something to make it better
• direct: To tell someone in a very clear way to do something
• trap: Device used for catching animals
• witness: To see the signing of an official document
• aid: To help others and provide things
• convert: To switch from a religion, belief etc. to another
• civil: Of citizens of a country; not military, criminal
• rush: To attack someone suddenly in a group
• rescue: To save someone who is in danger or in trouble
• scramble: To cause war planes to take off quickly
• foreign: Being of a different place or country
• academy: School that specializes in certain subjects
• vary: To change something and make it different
• count: To add things together to find the total number
• distribution: Dividing or spreading out to others
• funeral: Ceremony of burying, burning a dead body
• limit: Point beyond which it is not possible to go
• manage: To survive hardships and difficulties; to cope
• allow: To admit the validity or truth of something
• makeshift: That only serves as something temporarily
• government: Group of people and system that rule a nation
• damage: Physical harm that is done to something
• basic: At the most important or easiest (beginner) level
• drive: A person's ambition and motivation to do something
• densely: Thickly (filled or covered)
• step: Movement done as part of a particular dance
• pull: Act of breathing in smoke, as from a pipe
• hamper: to prevent somebody from easily doing or achieving something
• abdominal: Concerned with the stomach area of a body
• coup: Successful taking over of a thing; sudden success
• difficult: Hard; not easy; you need to work hard to do it
• devastation: Act of ruining or destroying something
• recognizable: Being easily identified because of some quality
• carry: To have a child, be pregnant
• train: Line of people, animals moving the same direction
• side: To decide to agree with one point, not the other
• agonizing: To suffer painfully over something; be in agony
• country: An area of land that is controlled by a government
• stench: Very bad smell
• undercover: Operating in disguise; incognito
• mint: Candies with the taste of mint
• rubble: Rough, broken stones from destroyed building
• buddhist: Someone who follows the teachings of Buddha
• apprehend: To arrest someone
• morgue: Place to store dead bodies before they are buried
• junta: Military group that seized control of a country
• manpower: The workers available
• nan: Flat Indian bread