Vocabulary

• threat to: A person or thing likely to cause damage or danger.
• such as: For example; like
• deal with
• present: Being in attendance; being there; having turned up
• matter: To be of great importance; to count
• negative: The opposite to a positive electrical charge
• force: Group of persons trained for military action; army
• advantage: Thing making the chance of success higher
• general: Widespread, normal or usual
• consider: To think carefully about something
• develop: To explain something in steps and in detail
• familiar: Well-known or easily recognized
• priority: Thing that is more important/urgent than others
• roughly: Approximately; (of numbers) about; around
• pressure: Anxiety caused by difficult problems
• align: To arrange (e.g. objects) in line with one another
• conduct: Your behavior
• military: Army or armed forces
• reach: To come to or arrive at a goal or destination
• deal: To cope with something - usually troubles
• direct: To tell someone in a very clear way to do something
• journal: A diary; record of what you do every day
• region: Part of a country, of the world, area, etc.
• threat: Warning of probable trouble
• advance: Forward movement by an army
• administration: Act of giving e.g. medicine to a patient
• counter: To say or do something in opposition or resistance
• pace: Rate of speed at which something moves or happens
• rely: Depend on with full trust or confidence
• deter: To stop people doing a thing; stop from happening
• internal: Being or happening in the body
• command: To be able to see far from a certain location
• withdraw: To take money out of a bank account
• secret: Kept hidden from others; Known only to a few people
• informal: Casual; relaxed
• defense: Argument in support of something
• depend: Be controlled or determined by (someone/something)
• insist: To demand that someone do something
• withdrawal: Action of pulling back or move away or backward
• policy: Document stating terms of an insurance agreement
• sign: Indication that something exists or will happen
• sole: The part of your foot which touches the ground
• peninsula: Narrow strip of land projecting into a sea or lake
• troop: Group of people
• soul: Central or basic part of something
• middle: Place that is halfway between two things
• pull: Act of breathing in smoke, as from a pipe
• change: To exchange one set of clothes for another
• nuclear: Concerning or involving the center of an atom
• senate: A board of governors at a college or university
• secretary: Office worker who makes appointments, etc.
• footprint: Mark left by a foot of an animal or human
• march: To force someone to walk somewhere
• machine: Piece of equipment used to do work
• ballistic: Of the science of movement of rockets and bullets
• pentagon: A five-sided shape
• memo: Brief note or message left for another person
• homeland: Country where you were born