Vocabulary

• such as: For example; like
• move to: To change the place where you live or work.
• used to: Did regularly before, but don't do now
• in the past: During a former period of time; previously.
• in areas: Located or occurring within specific regions or locations.
• set aside: To reject or throw away, e.g. an idea
• check out
• crucial: Extremely important or necessary
• significant: Large enough to be noticed or have an effect
• essential: Extremely or most important and necessary
• commitment: Permanent love or concern for person, thing
• vital: Needed to support life; essential
• critical: Making a negative judgment of something
• resilience: Ability to recover quickly from something bad
• initiative: Ability to come up with solutions by yourself
• infrastructure: Basic necessary equipment for a country or region
• artificial: Dishonest, to seem fake, not sincere
• intelligence: Collection of secret information about something
• surge: Sudden movement in one direction by many
• executive: A senior manager in a business or organization
• combat: To fight someone or something physically
• domestic: Someone paid to help with housework in your house
• align: To arrange (e.g. objects) in line with one another
• implement: To start to do something you plan to do
• decade: Period of 10 years
• encourage: To increase the chance of something happening
• spike: The top point in a graph
• leverage: An advantage which gives you influence or power
• rare: (Of meat) cooked, but still red and juicy
• direct: To tell someone in a very clear way to do something
• prompt: Message on a computer requiring attention
• emerge: To rise or appear out of some background
• tactic: One of the ways you attempt to achieve a strategy
• pledge: To make a promise; make an oath
• security: Department in a company in charge of protection
• chase: Act of going after someone to catch them
• expand: To make something larger in size, number, amount
• seek: To ask someone for help
• advance: Forward movement by an army
• administration: Act of giving e.g. medicine to a patient
• agenda: Plan or policy to achieve your goal or intentions
• break: To create a new record e.g. running the 100m dash
• dominate: To be taller, bigger, or more physically obvious
• produce: Fresh foods such as fruits and vegetables
• company: Good feeling from being with someone else
• defense: Argument in support of something
• mineral: Substance naturally formed in the ground
• sign: Indication that something exists or will happen
• allow: To admit the validity or truth of something
• support: To give assistance or advice to someone
• rise: To wake up and get out of bed after sleeping
• mining: To place a bomb in the ground or the sea
• march: To force someone to walk somewhere
• clear: Empty; without anything in it or on it
• climb: To rise gradually and steadily to a higher point
• begin: To do the first part of an action; to start
• earth: Wire connecting an electrical device to the ground
• lithium: Soft silver-white univalent element of the alkali metal group; the lightest metal known; occurs in several minerals
• trilogy: Series of three connected works
• aerospace: Industry of air and space travel
• key: Answers to exercises, as at the back of a book
• white: Person's name
• wartime: Period of time when there is armed conflict
• ceo: CEO for Chief Operating Officer