Vocabulary

• used to: Did regularly before, but don't do now
• step back: To move backwards; to move away from something.
• back into: To drive a vehicle backwards into a space or area.
• run by: To be managed or controlled by someone or a group.
• run in: To arrest person and take them to police station
• talking about: To discuss a particular topic.
• for now: Temporarily; for the present time.
• lose money: To suffer a financial loss; to not make a profit.
• mental: Concerning the mind
• access: Way to enter a place, e.g. a station or stadium
• prioritize: To rank things in importance
• debate: General public discussion of a topic
• fragile: Easily affected, broken, or harmed
• force: Group of persons trained for military action; army
• sense: Certain mental feeling or emotion
• fear: Unpleasant feeling caused by being aware of danger
• imagine: To think creatively about; form mental picture of
• proper: Correct according to social or moral rules
• prime: To get a person ready for; prepare someone
• capital: Writing the first letter of a word in big letters
• reach: To come to or arrive at a goal or destination
• deal: To cope with something - usually troubles
• foundation: Base or important starting point
• remain: To be left behind; to continue to exist
• response: Something said/written as an answer to something
• refer: To talk about or write about something
• security: Department in a company in charge of protection
• raise: To increase a bet above another when playing cards
• strip: To remove your clothes (often sexily for someone)
• invest: To use resources to build for the future
• respond: To answer something or someone
• flee: To leave somewhere urgently, to avoid danger
• shape: The outer form of something, what it looks like
• formal: Observing rules and procedures strictly
• belief: Being sure that something exists or is true
• destroy: To damage so badly that something no longer exists
• moment: Very short or brief period of time
• learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
• carve: To cut a piece of cooked meat into thin slices
• continue: To do something without stopping, or after pausing
• build: Your physical shape; physique
• makeshift: That only serves as something temporarily
• bring: To take or go with someone to a place
• daily: Happening every day
• step: Movement done as part of a particular dance
• recreational: Being done for pleasure
• wreckage: Remaining parts of something that has been wrecked
• firsthand: Received directly from a source
• tent: Portable cloth shelter used outdoors for camping
• ceasefire: Agreement by two sides in a war to stop fighting
• northern: In or toward the north
• hunger: Strong desire or need
• bombardment: Act of dropping bombs on a place
• displace: To cause someone to move from their usual place
• displacement: Number of liters a petrol engine has
• lifeline: Rope or cord used to attach a person to a boat
• wasteland: Uninhabited wilderness worthless for cultivation
• psychosocial: Psychological development in social environments