Vocabulary

• talking about: To discuss a particular topic.
• red handed: Caught in the act of doing something wrong or illegal.
• across the board: Broad in scope or content
• have to: Must do
• at least: As a minimum
• turn to: To go to someone for help, advice, or information.
• in the way: Obstructing someone or something; hindering progress.
• meet with: To have a meeting with someone in order to discuss something.
• put up with: To suffer (a difficult thing) without complaining
• with it: Intelligent, alert, and up-to-date.
• in the hot seat: In a stressful or difficult position requiring accountability.
• think of: To look on as (being something specific); consider
• in particular: Specifically; especially.
• allow for: To take into consideration
• over time: Gradually; as time passes.
• win over: To convince others to support you or your ideas
• to do with: To be about something; concern
• out of time: Having no more time available to do something.
• set off: To start a journey
• sort: To organize things by putting them into groups
• approach: To get close to reaching something or somewhere
• vital: Needed to support life; essential
• multiple: Having or involving more than one of something
• evidence: Factual proof that helps to establish the truth
• audience: Group of people attending a play, movie etc.
• general: Widespread, normal or usual
• commit: To do something bad, usually a crime
• aisle: Long narrow space between rows of seats
• consent: To agree or give approval to do something
• issue: To make something available to be used or sold
• syndrome: A group of signs and symptoms of a disease
• diminish: To make something smaller or less important
• congress: Meeting of elected or appointed representatives
• witness: To see the signing of an official document
• administration: Act of giving e.g. medicine to a patient
• board: Surface for posting or showing information
• democratic: (Of government) giving the people power, a vote
• clarity: Being easy to be seen through, heard or understood
• plausible: Being reasonable and possibly true
• responsibility: Job, task or thing you are expected to look after
• participate: To take part with others in doing something
• attorney: Person giving legal advice; a lawyer
• politician: Someone whose job is in politics
• moment: Very short or brief period of time
• apologize: To say sorry because of a mistake or injury
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• important: Having power or authority
• learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
• president: Person in charge of a country, or organization
• committee: Group of people who do or decide something
• harm: To damage, injure, or hurt someone or something
• juvenile: Concerning young people or children
• justice: Quality of being fair, equal, or just
• bring: To take or go with someone to a place
• own: To have something as your property
• trust: To expect confidently
• senate: A board of governors at a college or university
• prepare: To make something ready for use
• include: To make someone, something part of a group
• theater: Place where plays or movies are seen
• transparency: Quality of being open to see/to public criticism
• borrow: To take and later return something from another
• official: Real, exact, truely felt
• extraordinarily: Extremely
• warrant: Official authorization for some action or decision
• bubble: A small ball of air inside of a liquid
• defiant: Refusing to obey (rules, parent); resistant
• fiasco: An event that goes wrong in an embarrassing way
• side: To decide to agree with one point, not the other
• list: To lean to one side, like a boat or ship
• constitutional: Regarding laws that govern a nation and its people
• time: Speed at which music is played; tempo
• credibility: Quality of being believable or deserving of trust
• testify: To tell what you know (in court)
• oversight: A mistake; something you forget to do
• congressional: Concerning the US congress
• impeachment: Charging a public official with misconduct
• stuffy: (Nose) blocked
• judiciary: System of judges and courts in a country
• tenor: Male with the natural highest adult singing voice
• magistrate: Local official who has powers like a judge
• ether: Formerly, liquid inducing sleep before dental work