Vocabulary

• in solidarity: With unity or agreement of feeling or action, especially among individuals with a common interest; showing support or sympathy.
• in the red: Operating at a loss; in debt.
• strike: To hit something
• spread: A big meal, often laid out as a buffet
• significantly: In a way that is important or noticeable
• commercial: Radio or television advertisement
• statement: Record of activity in a bank account over time
• military: Army or armed forces
• prompt: Message on a computer requiring attention
• vessel: Container, such as a cup, for holding liquids
• catastrophe: Very bad disaster causing much suffering, etc.
• cause: Belief, goal or organization that people support
• couple: To join something to something else
• sink: To push something down into the ground
• route: Way to get from one place to another place; path
• target: A goal or amount you are trying to achieve
• command: To be able to see far from a certain location
• previously: At an earlier time
• solidarity: Feeling of unity between people sharing ideas etc.
• partially: In part; in some degree; not wholly
• act: To behave in a certain way
• retaliation: Revenge for something harmful or wrong
• verify: To prove that something is right, accurate or true
• government: Group of people and system that rule a nation
• damage: Physical harm that is done to something
• middle: Place that is halfway between two things
• own: To have something as your property
• strait: Channel joining large bodies of water
• central: Being in the middle
• slick: Confident; effortlessly effective
• attack: To try to destroy, beat, or injure
• wide: Having a great distance from one side to the other
• cargo: Goods carried in a ship or plane
• environmental: Of the natural world of plants and animals
• carry: To have a child, be pregnant
• united: To join or come together for the same goal
• lose: To be unable to keep in check or control something
• expensive: Costing a lot of money
• divert: To attract someone's attention from something
• begin: To do the first part of an action; to start
• gulf: Part of a sea partially surrounded by land
• long: Person's name
• submerge: To sink or put below the surface
• visit: To go to a place for a time, usually for a reason
• ship: Large boat
• israel: Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean; formerly part of Palestine
• stoke: To add fuel or tend a fire to make it stronger
• mile: Unit of distance; 1.6 kilometers
• shipping: To transport goods by boat, truck or plane
• month: One of 12 28-31 day periods in the year
• ruby: Very valuable dark red gemstone