Vocabulary

• from home: Working or operating from one's residence.
• outside of: Located or situated beyond the boundaries or confines of something.
• on the ground: Located on the surface of the earth.
• used to: Did regularly before, but don't do now
• on the road: Traveling, especially as part of a tour or journey.
• family members: People related by blood, marriage, or adoption.
• sit around: To spend time idly; to do nothing in particular.
• boost: To increase something; to make something better
• devastating: To cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
• improve: To make, or become, something better
• crisis: Unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty
• conflict: Argument or struggle between two or more parties
• force: Group of persons trained for military action; army
• spread: A big meal, often laid out as a buffet
• grief: Feeling of great sadness because someone has died
• domestic: Someone paid to help with housework in your house
• rare: (Of meat) cooked, but still red and juicy
• reach: To come to or arrive at a goal or destination
• remain: To be left behind; to continue to exist
• explain: To make clear or easy to understand by describing
• performance: Act of doing something
• console: To make someone feel better in times of distress
• beat: To move in regular motions in order to push blood
• minority: Group that is smaller and different from the rest
• ground: To break (coffee, etc.) into tiny bits with machine
• tournament: Sports contest with many games to find a winner
• defeat: To beat an enemy, team, disease
• plunge: (Of prices, hopes etc.) to decrease very quickly
• civil: Of citizens of a country; not military, criminal
• leave: To go away from; depart
• appear: To be seen, become visible; come into sight
• destroy: To damage so badly that something no longer exists
• league: Group of people, countries with a common goal
• rapid: Moving or happening very quickly
• destruction: Act of destroying; damaging beyond repair
• offer: Price you say you are willing to pay for something
• control: A device designed to operate a machine
• remind: To cause someone to remember what they forgot
• catch: Amount of something that has been caught
• support: To give assistance or advice to someone
• bring: To take or go with someone to a place
• humanitarian: Person who tries to help those in a crisis
• stadium: Building with a sports field for watching games
• management: People who are in control of a business or group
• grow: To get bigger and more mature; make plants do this
• qualify: To earn a qualification through exam, studying
• nation: Area or region controlled by a government and army
• match: To equal or be as good as something else
• shoot: To kick or throw a ball at a goal
• start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
• world: All the humans, events, activities on the earth
• defiant: Refusing to obey (rules, parent); resistant
• unity: Being in full agreement; being joined together
• embroil: To involve in a problematic situation
• equatorial: Concerning or at an equator; having hot weather
• nil: Word used to mean zero, or nothing