Vocabulary

• worth mentioning: Important or interesting enough to be spoken about or noted.
• in terms of
• on the streets: Without a home; homeless or exposed outdoors.
• in the past: During a former period of time; previously.
• meet the standards: To satisfy or fulfill the required level of quality or performance.
• out there: In or to a place that is far away
• call upon: To make demands on; order/require from someone
• tone down: To make something less forceful, intense, or extreme.
• in advance: Ahead of time; before something happens
• used to: Did regularly before, but don't do now
• take down: To capture physically
• on the ground: Located on the surface of the earth.
• to let: Indicates that a property is available for rent.
• in the field: Working or doing research in a real-world environment, not in a classroom or laboratory.
• cracking down: To act forcefully in order to reduce crime, etc.
• taken over: To gain control of (a company) from someone else
• sort: To organize things by putting them into groups
• conscious: Aware of what is going on around you
• approach: To get close to reaching something or somewhere
• commitment: Permanent love or concern for person, thing
• strategy: Careful plan or method for achieving a goal
• plenty: When there is not too little of something; a lot
• interfere: To get involved in something not your business
• extent: Point, level or limit to which something reaches
• commit: To do something bad, usually a crime
• admit: To acknowledge that something is true or right
• crack: Attempt to achieve a goal or objective
• method: (Organized and planned) way of doing something
• blame: To say someone is responsible for something bad
• reflect: To indicate or be a sign of something
• conduct: Your behavior
• worth: the financial, practical or moral value of somebody/something
• abuse: To mistreat or be cruel towards someone
• mention: To refer to or talk or write about something
• draw: To attract attention to someone or something
• deal: To cope with something - usually troubles
• ease: To make something less difficult, tight, stressed
• federal: Consisting of several united states
• tactic: One of the ways you attempt to achieve a strategy
• congress: Meeting of elected or appointed representatives
• administration: Act of giving e.g. medicine to a patient
• rhetoric: The study of public speaking or writing techniques
• assault: To attack someone physically or emotionally
• anticipation: Pleasurable feeling about a future event
• suggest: To mention something that could be done; propose
• criticize: To assess the work of others
• assessment: Conclusion, opinion formed after due consideration
• condemn: To say that (a building) is too unsafe to be used
• arrest: To attract someone's attention and hold interest
• enforcement: Process of making sure that rules are followed
• fact: Something that is known or proved to be true
• election: Process of choosing someone by voting
• campus: Grounds of an institution, e.g. a university
• change: To exchange one set of clothes for another
• crackdown: Increased effort to enforce the law or a rule
• secretary: Office worker who makes appointments, etc.
• immigration: Process of moving your home to a new country
• interesting: Taking your attention; making you want to know
• march: To force someone to walk somewhere
• carry: To have a child, be pregnant
• clear: Empty; without anything in it or on it
• signify: To mean something; be a symbol of something
• deportation: Act of expelling a person from their native land
• hardcore: (Of sex films, etc.) extremely explicit
• people: Persons sharing culture, country, background, etc.
• plan: Drawing of how something should be done or made
• close: Almost; near
• democrat: An advocate of democratic principles
• oversee: To check on or manage the work of others
• homeland: Country where you were born
• bloodshed: Violence leading to blood being split
• czar: Male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia)