Vocabulary

• made public: To reveal or announce something to everyone.
• cover up: To hide something bad; conceal
• as one: Acting or moving together at the same time.
• meet with: To have a meeting with someone in order to discuss something.
• for the record: Said to ensure something is officially noted or remembered.
• call for: To demand, need or require (an action or thing)
• evidence of: Facts, objects, or signs that make you believe that something is true.
• shut down: To close an operating system, e.g. on a computer
• cut off: To end a process, e.g. a phone call
• of course: Sure ; Certainly
• move on: To decide to change or go to a different place
• speak to: To address or communicate with someone.
• such as: For example; like
• concern about: To worry about something.
• in the way: Obstructing someone or something; hindering progress.
• talking about: To discuss a particular topic.
• engage: To start to fight with an enemy
• evidence: Factual proof that helps to establish the truth
• matter: To be of great importance; to count
• pursue: To follow and try to catch, or to reach a goal
• general: Widespread, normal or usual
• abuse: To mistreat or be cruel towards someone
• refer: To talk about or write about something
• accountability: Responsibility to someone or for some activity
• contact: Touching or feeling something
• release: To free someone from a responsibility or burden
• pathetic: Causing feelings of sadness, pity and sympathy
• administration: Act of giving e.g. medicine to a patient
• deny: To refuse to allow or accept something
• assess: To judge something's value or suitability
• investment: Something purchased hoping its value will increase
• relate: To demonstrate a logical relationship between
• trade: A specific industry, e.g. shoe making
• breach: To break laws or barriers (e.g. walls)
• attorney: Person giving legal advice; a lawyer
• investigation: Search for information about something
• mineral: Substance naturally formed in the ground
• committee: Group of people who do or decide something
• information: Collection of facts and details about something
• justice: Quality of being fair, equal, or just
• public: Owned by the government
• shove: To roughly push someone or something away
• criminal: Involving illegal activity; relating to crime
• compel: To force someone to do something
• behave: To act correctly
• duty: Work required by your job or position
• question: To ask for or try to get information
• palace: Official home of a ruler, such as a king or queen
• prepare: To make something ready for use
• descend: To go down; to move from a higher to a lower place
• include: To make someone, something part of a group
• convict: Person in prison
• confidential: Entrusted with another's secrets
• betrayal: Act of giving knowledge or information to an enemy
• wide: Having a great distance from one side to the other
• offender: Person who breaks a law or other rule
• behaviour: The way a person or thing acts; manner
• proactively: So as to head off anticipated future problems
• prosecute: To try to prove someone legally guilty of a crime
• time: Speed at which music is played; tempo
• happen: To take place or occur
• affirm: To state, strengthen or support a belief you have
• answer: To reply to a question someone asks
• give: Degree of flexibility in something, a material
• riddled: Infested with; full of (insects, mistakes etc.)
• voice: Ability to sing well
• predicate: To base something on a previous situation
• envoy: Person sent to represent his, her country
• southeast: Location in the southeastern part of an area
• overshadow: To be more important or significant by comparison