Vocabulary

• have to: Must do
• take some time: To allocate or dedicate a period to a specific activity or purpose.
• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• apartment building: A building with many apartments or flats
• sheer number: A large quantity or amount of something.
• to pieces: Broken into many small parts.
• amounted to: To have reached a total of; to be equal to.
• along with: In addition to; together with.
• going on: To continue doing something
• wait for: To wait until someone comes, or something happens
• right next to: Immediately adjacent to; in very close proximity to.
• next to: Being located along side another
• used to: Did regularly before, but don't do now
• of course: Sure ; Certainly
• deal with
• incredibly important: Extremely significant or crucial.
• take out: To apply for and get a license
• sort: To organize things by putting them into groups
• approach: To get close to reaching something or somewhere
• desperate: Being beyond hope; prepared to do anything
• devastating: To cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
• scale: Size, level, or amount when compared
• scene: Incident where someone behaves angrily, badly
• awful: Very bad; horrible; terrible
• amount: Quantity of something
• imagine: To think creatively about; form mental picture of
• reality: What is true, as opposed to what is imagined
• sheer: To suddenly turn or change direction
• escape: Act to briefly ignoring boring or bad things
• intensity: Great energy, strength, or concentration
• capital: Writing the first letter of a word in big letters
• shelter: Place to protect people/animals from abuse
• filter: Device to remove certain types of light, sound
• survive: To continue to live despite illness or trouble
• couple: To join something to something else
• wage: Money paid to a worker for the hours they worked
• slam: To criticize sharply
• leave: To go away from; depart
• drone: A remote controlled flying device
• deprive: To deny someone access to or take away something
• invasion: Entry into a place to cause harm
• destroy: To damage so badly that something no longer exists
• shatter: To break into small pieces
• destruction: Act of destroying; damaging beyond repair
• interior: Part of country that is far from the border, coast
• president: Person in charge of a country, or organization
• dust: To apply a fine powder to, e.g. sugar to a cake
• build: Your physical shape; physique
• support: To give assistance or advice to someone
• corridor: Passageway between rooms in a buildings
• chance: The way something happens without planning
• last: Final; with nothing following; after all others
• basement: Floor or room in a building beneath the ground
• difficult: Hard; not easy; you need to work hard to do it
• hide: To go to, or put a thing where it can't be found
• missile: A weapon that is thrown, shot or launched
• burn: To destroy with fire
• carry: To have a child, be pregnant
• overnight: (Becoming famous, etc.) in a short amount of time
• underway: Happening now
• mayor: Head of a town or city government
• live: To be alive
• meet: To provide something that is necessary
• hear: To be aware of sound; to perceive with the ear
• ballistic: Of the science of movement of rockets and bullets
• rubble: Rough, broken stones from destroyed building
• bomb: To attack with explosives
• underwear: Clothes worn next to skin/under outer clothes
• patriot: Person who loves and defends their own country
• underscore: To highlight or stress