Vocabulary

• update on: To provide the latest information about something.
• in the hope of: With the expectation or desire for something to happen.
• interest of: For the benefit or advantage of someone or something.
• at least: As a minimum
• for now: Temporarily; for the present time.
• deal to: To give or inflict something, often harm or punishment.
• live for: To consider something the most important thing in your life; to find purpose or great pleasure in something.
• know about: To have information or understanding of a subject or situation.
• have to: Must do
• give away
• entire: Complete or full; with no part left out; whole
• recognize: To accept the truth or reality of something
• progress: To move forward or toward a place or goal
• delicate: Easily broken or damaged
• current: Electricity flowing through wires
• deal: To cope with something - usually troubles
• address: Exact street location of a place
• recognition: Accepting that something is true or that it exists
• region: Part of a country, of the world, area, etc.
• seek: To ask someone for help
• scrutiny: Careful examination, as to see rules are followed
• mass: Religious ceremony in some Christian churches
• agenda: Plan or policy to achieve your goal or intentions
• praise: To express approval of something or someone
• correspondent: Journalist, as one reporting from other countries
• suggest: To mention something that could be done; propose
• appear: To be seen, become visible; come into sight
• foreign: Being of a different place or country
• receive: To get something someone has given or sent to you
• resolve: To make a decision to do something
• document: Official (printed) record that gives information
• insist: To demand that someone do something
• president: Person in charge of a country, or organization
• concession: Special right granted, as by someone in authority
• minister: An official who heads a government department
• proposal: Act of asking someone to marry you
• draft: Withdrawal of money from the bank
• head: To hit a ball with your head in a game
• revise: To make changes or add something to improve
• dozen: 12 people or things
• pull: Act of breathing in smoke, as from a pipe
• indication: Something showing something exists or will happen
• land: Region or country
• remember: To give someone a gift, e.g. birthday, wedding
• acceptable: Satisfactory; good enough
• cease: To come or bring to an end; stop continuing
• part: Division of a book
• diplomat: Person representing their government overseas
• jar: To have a harsh or unsettling effect on someone
• fight: To argue or quarrel with someone about something
• contentious: Tending to create argument or division
• meet: To provide something that is necessary
• territorial: Associated with the ownership of an area
• favorable: When a good result or positive outcome is likely
• plan: Drawing of how something should be done or made
• badly: Not in a good way; not as wanted or liked
• final: Last game in a series in a competition
• spokesperson: Advocate who represents another’s policy/purpose
• tout: To praise or promote something
• envoy: Person sent to represent his, her country
• bloodshed: Violence leading to blood being split
• frontline: Front, especially one between military positions