Vocabulary

• on hold: Temporarily delayed or suspended.
• set up
• properly: In an appropriate or correct manner
• expect: To believe something is probably going to happen
• commit: To do something bad, usually a crime
• relationship: Connection between two or more people or things
• influence: To affect or change something indirectly
• concrete: Hard building material made of cement, sand, water
• prime: To get a person ready for; prepare someone
• statement: Record of activity in a bank account over time
• dialogue: Conversation between two or more individuals
• remain: To be left behind; to continue to exist
• association: Organization of people with the same interest
• security: Department in a company in charge of protection
• raise: To increase a bet above another when playing cards
• core: To take out the central section of a fruit
• budget: Amount of money planned to be spent
• halt: To stop, or cause something, e.g. a car, to stop
• rely: Depend on with full trust or confidence
• formal: Observing rules and procedures strictly
• strategic: Concerned with strategy; well thought out
• foreign: Being of a different place or country
• defense: Argument in support of something
• escalate: To increase in size, intensity, or scope
• policy: Document stating terms of an insurance agreement
• sign: Indication that something exists or will happen
• restore: To return a thing to its original condition
• sector: Part that a place is divided into
• support: To give assistance or advice to someone
• defend: To protect and explain your position in court
• set: Prepared for something; ready
• suspend: To hang something or someone from something
• grow: To get bigger and more mature; make plants do this
• deep: Complex and important
• include: To make someone, something part of a group
• nation: Area or region controlled by a government and army
• mining: To place a bomb in the ground or the sea
• hold: To agree to keep something for someone
• govern: To officially control land and make policies
• cover: To record a different version of another song
• bilateral: Involving two groups of people or two countries
• country: An area of land that is controlled by a government
• meet: To provide something that is necessary
• ministry: Body of religious workers and leaders
• call: A order or request for action
• early: Coming/happening before others in a time sequence
• spokesperson: Advocate who represents another’s policy/purpose
• partnership: Shared business relationship with someone
• deepen: To become louder, lower or greater in degree