Vocabulary

• build up: To increase the amount; collect something
• on the street: Located on or along a public road in a town or city.
• in pursuit: Following or chasing someone or something, typically to catch them.
• regardless of
• talking about: To discuss a particular topic.
• engage in: To participate or become involved in something.
• based on: To use something as the foundation or starting point for something else.
• buy time: To delay an action to allow more time for preparation.
• at the same time: Simultaneously; at the identical moment.
• same time: Occurring simultaneously or at the same point in time.
• on the table: Located on the surface of a table.
• on the streets: Without a home; homeless or exposed outdoors.
• for days: For a long period of time; lasting several days.
• apparently: According to what you heard; from what can be seen
• situation: Place, position or area that something is in
• crisis: Unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty
• conflict: Argument or struggle between two or more parties
• legitimate: Being born to legally married parents
• distract: To draw someone's attention away from something
• prevent: To stop something from happening or existing
• prime: To get a person ready for; prepare someone
• estimate: Guess or calculation of cost, size or value
• brutal: Extremely violent or mean
• military: Army or armed forces
• accountable: Be responsible to someone or for some activity
• concern: To be about a particular topic
• capital: Writing the first letter of a word in big letters
• pursuit: Act of following someone to catch them
• regime: A system of management; a form of government
• explain: To make clear or easy to understand by describing
• emerge: To rise or appear out of some background
• region: Part of a country, of the world, area, etc.
• security: Department in a company in charge of protection
• ambassador: Official representing a country in another country
• administration: Act of giving e.g. medicine to a patient
• responsible: Being the cause of something that has occurred
• drop: Distance between a higher and a lower level
• misery: Thing that causes unhappiness
• diplomatic: Concerning formal relationships between countries
• retreat: Act of a force moving back from a winning enemy
• correspondent: Journalist, as one reporting from other countries
• solution: Mix of a liquid and a solid or a gas
• suggest: To mention something that could be done; propose
• gauge: A tool used to measure things
• discuss: To talk about seriously or in great detail
• satellite: Device sent into space that aids communication
• violence: Strong physical force of nature
• assessment: Conclusion, opinion formed after due consideration
• border: To be right next to another country or state
• kind: In a caring and helpful manner
• president: Person in charge of a country, or organization
• continue: To do something without stopping, or after pausing
• prefer: To like something better than something else
• threaten: To cause something potential harm, or put at risk
• government: Group of people and system that rule a nation
• blackout: When the electric power is off; outage
• crackdown: Increased effort to enforce the law or a rule
• possibly: May be true or likely, but is uncertain
• difficult: Hard; not easy; you need to work hard to do it
• part: Division of a book
• hold: To agree to keep something for someone
• wide: Having a great distance from one side to the other
• clear: Empty; without anything in it or on it
• anti: A prefix meaning 'against' or 'opposed'
• repression: Psych act of restricting or holding back emotions
• envoy: Person sent to represent his, her country
• arab: Citizen of an Arabic speaking nation
• shutdown: Termination of operations