Vocabulary

• carry out
• request for: A formal application or appeal for something.
• threat to: A person or thing likely to cause damage or danger.
• determine: To control exactly how something will be or act
• potentially: That could happen or become reality
• immediately: Without any delay; straight away
• consider: To think carefully about something
• comment: Something you say, giving an opinion; remark
• statement: Record of activity in a bank account over time
• military: Army or armed forces
• condition: To improve something to make it better
• tactic: One of the ways you attempt to achieve a strategy
• veteran: Person experienced through long service
• congress: Meeting of elected or appointed representatives
• release: To free someone from a responsibility or burden
• threat: Warning of probable trouble
• seek: To ask someone for help
• administration: Act of giving e.g. medicine to a patient
• create: To make, cause, or bring into existence
• harness: To capture the power of something
• respond: To answer something or someone
• request: To ask for, usually politely and formally
• social: Involving activity with people, e.g. in free time
• crime: Act that is believed to be a mistake or foolish
• allegedly: According to what has been alleged
• dismiss: To consider that something is at an end
• activity: An action or task, e.g. sports, washing clothes
• defense: Argument in support of something
• illegal: Not allowed by the laws or rules
• justify: To give good reasons for something
• order: Religious or social group, as of nuns
• president: Person in charge of a country, or organization
• recall: (Company) asking for the return of faulty goods
• justice: Quality of being fair, equal, or just
• government: Group of people and system that rule a nation
• argue: To fight or disagree over something
• active: Moving around a lot or doing many things
• violate: To abuse, damage or disrespect
• anonymity: When no one knows your identity
• dissent: Difference of opinion; a disagreement
• secretary: Office worker who makes appointments, etc.
• include: To make someone, something part of a group
• echo: (Of a place) to be filled with repeating sounds
• carry: To have a child, be pregnant
• intimidation: Being made to feel afraid or timid, as by threats
• senator: An elected politician belonging to the senate
• stifle: To hold back (a yawn, opposition etc.); smother
• allege: To state without proof
• add: To include as well
• tell: To (strongly) advise a person to do something
• crow: Large black bird
• report: Account of the necessary facts and information
• pentagon: A five-sided shape
• analyst: Someone who is skilled at studying details of data
• navy: Very dark shade of blue
• latin: Ancient Roman language affecting many languages
• unlawful: Not conforming to legality
• sedition: Speech or actions intended to incite rebellion