Vocabulary

• rein in: To control or limit something.
• shut down: To close an operating system, e.g. on a computer
• got to: To arrive at some place
• overwhelmed: To defeat something or someone completely
• significant: Large enough to be noticed or have an effect
• recognize: To accept the truth or reality of something
• scale: Size, level, or amount when compared
• trick: To fool someone in order to obtain a result
• intimate: (E.g. of detail) fine, detailed or complete
• campaign: To work in an organized, active way towards a goal
• force: Group of persons trained for military action; army
• attempt: To try to do something challenging or difficult
• claim: To say that something is true, often without proof.
• demand: Desire customers have to buy product, service
• guilty: Responsible for doing something wrong
• industry: Hard work; being busy working
• despair: To have lost all hope; lose heart
• exploit: To selfishly take advantage of or treat badly
• victim: Person/thing affected by an unpleasant event
• suspect: Person thought to have committed a crime
• confront: To make someone, e.g. who has lied, face the truth
• account: An advantage
• involve: To have or be included as a part of something
• protest: To argue against something in a forceful way
• couple: To join something to something else
• agency: Business that provides some service for others
• platform: Flat, raised structure that people stand on
• social: Involving activity with people, e.g. in free time
• crime: Act that is believed to be a mistake or foolish
• remorse: Sense of guilt for something bad you did
• company: Good feeling from being with someone else
• bully: a person who habitually seeks to harm or intimidate those whom they perceive as vulnerable
• important: Having power or authority
• british: Concerning the culture and people of British
• enforcement: Process of making sure that rules are followed
• harm: To damage, injure, or hurt someone or something
• continue: To do something without stopping, or after pausing
• support: To give assistance or advice to someone
• point: An item to be discussed
• protect: To defend someone or something from harm or danger
• worse: Comparative of 'bad'; more bad
• change: To exchange one set of clothes for another
• possibly: May be true or likely, but is uncertain
• make: To arrange or prepare something e.g. dinner
• ludicrous: Very foolish; ridiculous
• sue: Person's name
• grieve: To feel great sadness, as when someone dies
• rein: Control; limitation
• silicon: Mineral used in making steel and computer parts
• blackmail: To threaten to tell a secret unless you are paid
• extortion: Act of threatening people to get money
• teen: Teenager