Vocabulary

• at the moment: At this time; now
• at least: As a minimum
• in hospital: Admitted to a hospital for treatment.
• family members: People related by blood, marriage, or adoption.
• in recent memory: Within the period people can still remember.
• peel back: To gradually reveal or uncover something by removing layers or obstacles.
• speak to: To address or communicate with someone.
• on fire: Very successful or popular
• for that matter: Used to emphasize that something is true or likely to happen, or to introduce a related point.
• think about: To consider something carefully.
• go beyond: To do more than planned or expected; exceed
• in the past: During a former period of time; previously.
• tremendous: Very good or very impressive
• routine: Happening or done regularly or habitually
• experience: Thing a person has done or that happened to them
• plenty: When there is not too little of something; a lot
• severe: Very bad; harsh
• accurate: With no mistake or error; Correct
• force: Group of persons trained for military action; army
• attempt: To try to do something challenging or difficult
• dread: To await with great fear
• claim: To say that something is true, often without proof.
• demand: Desire customers have to buy product, service
• failure: When things go wrong; lack of function
• initial: First letter of your given name
• conduct: Your behavior
• military: Army or armed forces
• toll: Sound that a big bell makes, when it is rung
• condition: To improve something to make it better
• capital: Writing the first letter of a word in big letters
• suffer: To experience pain, illness, or injury
• desperately: In a way that shows you don't have much hope
• comfort: To try to make distressed person feel better
• primary: Most important, most basic or essential
• section: A part of a whole
• accountability: Responsibility to someone or for some activity
• observe: To celebrate a particular holiday/religious event
• result: Something produced through tests or experiments
• administration: Act of giving e.g. medicine to a patient
• tragedy: Play that has a sad ending with many deaths
• aviation: Science or practice of flying aircraft
• moment: Very short or brief period of time
• assessment: Conclusion, opinion formed after due consideration
• peel: Outer covering, or skin, of a piece of fruit
• investigation: Search for information about something
• anguish: Great suffering caused by pain, worry, unhappiness
• civilian: Ordinary person who is not in the army
• aircraft: Vehicle that can fly
• mission: A task or role someone is given to do
• crash: To damage an object by causing it to hit something
• accident: Sudden unplanned event causing damage, injury etc.
• rise: To wake up and get out of bed after sleeping
• head: To hit a ball with your head in a game
• fail: To be unsuccessful in passing a class or exam
• densely: Thickly (filled or covered)
• land: Region or country
• deep: Complex and important
• mourn: To feel or show extreme sadness
• nation: Area or region controlled by a government and army
• devastation: Act of ruining or destroying something
• train: Line of people, animals moving the same direction
• grade: To give a road the required angle of slope
• believe: To think or accept that something is true
• jet: Stream of liquid/gas shooting out of small opening
• realise: To become aware of or understand mentally
• divert: To attract someone's attention from something
• rubble: Rough, broken stones from destroyed building
• char: To become burnt and the outside appears black
• islam: Religion of Muslims based on the Koran
• deafen: To be so loud you cannot hear anything else
• outdate: To be older than
• airspace: Area in the sky controlled by a country