Vocabulary

• speak to: To address or communicate with someone.
• on the floor: Located on the ground or bottom surface of a room.
• talking about: To discuss a particular topic.
• in terms of
• a few moments: A short period of time
• move on: To decide to change or go to a different place
• being with: Accompanying someone; being in someone's presence.
• made public: To reveal or announce something to everyone.
• in the act: While performing an action, especially something wrong or illegal.
• come clean: To confess fully; to admit wrongdoing.
• aside from
• around the world: In or to many countries.
• in relation to: Concerning; with reference to; regarding.
• play out: To use up or exhaust
• vulnerable: Being open to attack or damage
• process: To organize and use data in a computer
• gross: 144 of something; twelve dozen of something
• completely: In every way or as much as possible
• force: Group of persons trained for military action; army
• elite: The richest, most powerful, best-educated, or best-trained group in a society
• pressure: Anxiety caused by difficult problems
• prime: To get a person ready for; prepare someone
• conference: Series of lectures held as an event
• momentum: Speed or force that is gained when something moves
• acknowledge: To say you have received a letter, gift, etc.
• accountable: Be responsible to someone or for some activity
• compensate: To give (money) to as a form of correcting a loss
• congress: Meeting of elected or appointed representatives
• accountability: Responsibility to someone or for some activity
• release: To free someone from a responsibility or burden
• administration: Act of giving e.g. medicine to a patient
• create: To make, cause, or bring into existence
• scrub: To clean with hard rubbing
• panel: Group who answer questions or give opinions
• deny: To refuse to allow or accept something
• reckon: To believe or expect that something is true
• press: Machine using pressure to shape, flatten, squeeze
• allegedly: According to what has been alleged
• investigation: Search for information about something
• compensation: (Money) given or received as payment for loss
• sign: Indication that something exists or will happen
• british: Concerning the culture and people of British
• president: Person in charge of a country, or organization
• act: To behave in a certain way
• information: Collection of facts and details about something
• justice: Quality of being fair, equal, or just
• minister: An official who heads a government department
• public: Owned by the government
• horrific: Terrifying and shocking
• resign: To leave a job because you want to
• jeopardy: When something may be harmed, damaged or lost
• comply: To obey; follow a rule, another's wishes etc.
• secretary: Office worker who makes appointments, etc.
• transparency: Quality of being open to see/to public criticism
• equate: To consider things to be equal or the same
• convict: Person in prison
• march: To force someone to walk somewhere
• inquiry: Process of seeking information
• problem: Something difficult to deal with or causes trouble
• clear: Empty; without anything in it or on it
• country: An area of land that is controlled by a government
• live: To be alive
• prosecution: Lawyers acting to prove a defendant guilty
• people: Persons sharing culture, country, background, etc.
• republican: Supporter of the conservative US political party
• lieutenant: Officer in the army, navy, or air force
• congressman: Member of the US House of Representatives