Vocabulary

• under fire: Being heavily criticized.
• have to: Must do
• on the lookout: Vigilantly searching for someone or something.
• think of: To look on as (being something specific); consider
• lock on: To establish a tracking signal on a target, typically used in the context of missile guidance systems.
• take out: To apply for and get a license
• care of: Used in an address to indicate the person who will receive the mail for someone else.
• to let: Indicates that a property is available for rent.
• draw out: To lengthen (far beyond the normal limits)
• blow up: To suddenly become angry
• on board: Being on a ship, plane, or other vehicle
• look for: To try to find a thing or person that is lost
• forget about: To stop thinking about something; to ignore something.
• absolutely: Completely; totally; very
• approach: To get close to reaching something or somewhere
• figure: To appear in a game, play or event
• extremely: In a way that is much more than usual or expected
• engage: To start to fight with an enemy
• immediately: Without any delay; straight away
• structure: The way in which the parts of a system or object are arranged or organized, or a system arranged in this way
• position: Person's opinion or attitude about something
• facility: Piece of equipment or buildings with a special use
• havoc: Situation with destruction, damage and confusion
• complete: To finish or reach the end of doing something
• board: Surface for posting or showing information
• blow: To move something using air
• resistance: Force that stops or slows movement of something
• shore: Land along the edge of a sea, lake or river
• respond: To answer something or someone
• detect: To discover or identify the presence of something
• request: To ask for, usually politely and formally
• enemy: Something that stops you doing what you want
• activity: An action or task, e.g. sports, washing clothes
• destroy: To damage so badly that something no longer exists
• defense: Argument in support of something
• promotion: Act of advertising a product to people
• evacuate: To move people from dangerous to a safe places
• aircraft: Vehicle that can fly
• head: To hit a ball with your head in a game
• flight: Act of leaving a place, usually to escape danger
• pick: Sharp tool used for breaking the ground
• find: To become aware of something that is happening
• land: Region or country
• assistance: Act of helping someone
• captain: Title of a senior officer in the military
• liberty: Doing as one wants without asking
• adjacent: Being close or near to a border, wall, or point
• submarine: Ship that travels above and below the sea
• affirmative: Saying 'yes'; confirming; agreeing to
• hold: To agree to keep something for someone
• area: Amount of measured space
• check: Paper showing how much you owe at a restaurant
• remove: To get rid of something completely
• cover: To record a different version of another song
• personnel: Group of people who work for a company or group
• sloppy: (Of people) Not clean or orderly; messy
• pest: Person, often a small child, who bothers people
• seismic: Of earthquakes
• jet: Stream of liquid/gas shooting out of small opening
• unit: One apartment in a building
• datum: Item of factual information
• mainland: Main land mass of a country or continent
• converge: (E.g. of two roads) to come together
• radar: Radio device used to find the location of objects
• unstable: (Of a chair, etc.) likely to move, fall etc.
• widow: Woman whose husband has died
• cannon: Large wheeled gun that fires heavy metal balls
• suspenseful: Marked by anxious feelings caused by uncertainty
• commando: A member of an attacking military unit
• info: Shortened form of the word 'information'
• nah: Way of saying 'No'
• inlet: Water protruding into land, e.g. a bay
• mainframe: Large computer with considerable power