Vocabulary

• in the trenches: Engaged directly and actively in difficult work or conflict.
• depending on: To rely on for support (financial or emotional)
• of course: Sure ; Certainly
• draw upon: To use something that you have gradually gained or saved
• for example: As an illustration or instance.
• on a daily basis: Happening every day.
• have to: Must do
• individual: Single person, looked at separately from others
• significant: Large enough to be noticed or have an effect
• sophisticated: Making a good sounding but misleading argument
• present: Being in attendance; being there; having turned up
• engage: To start to fight with an enemy
• access: Way to enter a place, e.g. a station or stadium
• improve: To make, or become, something better
• experience: Thing a person has done or that happened to them
• plenty: When there is not too little of something; a lot
• capable: Being able to do something very well; proficient
• combat: To fight someone or something physically
• frankly: Speaking honestly and directly
• relentless: Continuing without slowing or losing strength
• field: Area of study, such as physics or biology
• military: Army or armed forces
• avoid: To prevent from happening
• suffer: To experience pain, illness, or injury
• draw: To attract attention to someone or something
• address: Exact street location of a place
• region: Part of a country, of the world, area, etc.
• effect: An advantage, benefit
• compare: To consider how similar and different things are
• thick: Difficult to see through, as fog
• throw: To use your arm to make something fly in the air
• risk: To do something potentially dangerous or foolish
• rate: To assess something or consider its qualities
• clip: A metal holder used for keeping things together
• respond: To answer something or someone
• urban: Concerning a city; located in a city
• guard: To keep watch over something to protect it
• enemy: Something that stops you doing what you want
• vary: To change something and make it different
• defense: Argument in support of something
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• depend: Be controlled or determined by (someone/something)
• place: To put someone in a particular type of situation
• kind: In a caring and helpful manner
• automatic: Done without conscious thought
• learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
• frank: Member of the ancient Germanic peoples
• embed: To place or set inside rock, etc.
• capability: Means, ability, or potential to do something
• trench: Long narrow hole dug in the ground
• tank: Container for holding liquid or gas
• unit: One apartment in a building
• artillery: Guns used by the military larger than machine guns
• warfare: Methods used by those fighting in a war
• spun: To make a ball rotate when throwing it
• territorial: Associated with the ownership of an area
• flavour: Taste of something, especially in food or drink
• grenade: Hand-held explosive devise
• improper: Not conforming to social or moral rules; rude
• extrapolate: To use facts to make guesses, opinions
• brigade: Official group who give help or rescue
• pony: Small young horse
• weaponry: Collection of weapons and weapon-like instruments
• attrition: Reduction in size, numbers, or strength over time
• battalion: Military unit of 300-800 soldiers
• firepower: Relative capacity for shooting, bombing a target