Vocabulary

• at least: As a minimum
• of course: Sure ; Certainly
• in areas: Located or occurring within specific regions or locations.
• shoot back: To respond to gunfire by shooting in return.
• at the moment: At this time; now
• on the ground: Located on the surface of the earth.
• leg up: Assistance given to someone by lifting or pushing them up.
• fight back: To make your point more strongly against opponent
• for all that: Despite that; even though.
• build on: To develop or expand something; to use something as a foundation for further progress.
• sophisticated: Making a good sounding but misleading argument
• recognize: To accept the truth or reality of something
• enormous: Huge; very big; very important
• trigger: Lever on a gun that you pull to fire
• controversial: Causing a great deal of argument, or conflict
• conflict: Argument or struggle between two or more parties
• campaign: To work in an organized, active way towards a goal
• effective: Working efficiently to produce a desired result
• accurate: With no mistake or error; Correct
• capacity: Ability to hold, involve or contain (e.g. liquids)
• confidence: Feeling that you can do well at something
• demand: Desire customers have to buy product, service
• conventional: Following the common attitudes and practices
• military: Army or armed forces
• authority: The power to give orders to people
• effectively: In a way that produces the desired result
• distinctive: Having a quality that is different from others
• crowd: To force too many things, people into
• accumulate: To gather or acquire so that you have more of it
• cause: Belief, goal or organization that people support
• region: Part of a country, of the world, area, etc.
• release: To free someone from a responsibility or burden
• drop: Distance between a higher and a lower level
• ethnic: Of people who share the same culture, traditions
• resistance: Force that stops or slows movement of something
• ground: To break (coffee, etc.) into tiny bits with machine
• role: Character played by an actor
• diplomatic: Concerning formal relationships between countries
• civil: Of citizens of a country; not military, criminal
• correspondent: Journalist, as one reporting from other countries
• drone: A remote controlled flying device
• appear: To be seen, become visible; come into sight
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• escalate: To increase in size, intensity, or scope
• transform: To change the shape completely in a good way
• seize: To take a place with force, as by military action
• control: A device designed to operate a machine
• allow: To admit the validity or truth of something
• disperse: To separate and spread out in different directions
• aircraft: Vehicle that can fly
• election: Process of choosing someone by voting
• improvise: To compose, speak or perform without preparation
• opposition: Act of disagreeing or trying to stop something
• legitimacy: Legally allowed act; undisputed credibility
• start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
• understand: To know the meaning of language, what someone says
• hold: To agree to keep something for someone
• widely: To a large degree; over a large range
• augment: To make something larger, stronger, more effective
• fight: To argue or quarrel with someone about something
• angst: Often worried or unhappy, especially about personal problems
• aerial: Being done, living or seen in the air
• back: Farthest from the front e.g. in a classroom
• give: Degree of flexibility in something, a material
• people: Persons sharing culture, country, background, etc.
• buddhist: Someone who follows the teachings of Buddha
• terrify: To scare or greatly frighten
• saga: Description of events occurring over a long period
• vigil: Staying up all night, as to watch over sick person
• southeast: Location in the southeastern part of an area
• junta: Military group that seized control of a country
• northwestern: Area in the north and west