Vocabulary

• up against: Facing or contending with something difficult or challenging.
• rise up: To attempt to defeat government or ruler
• turn to: To go to someone for help, advice, or information.
• pay back: To return money or a favor
• with it: Intelligent, alert, and up-to-date.
• to do with: To be about something; concern
• gain access: To obtain the ability or right to enter or use something.
• in a suit: Wearing a suit of clothes.
• jump on: To criticize someone suddenly and strongly.
• to scale: In proportion; maintaining accurate relative dimensions.
• bunch: A group of things of the same kind
• improve: To make, or become, something better
• revenue: Money that is made by or paid to a business
• expect: To believe something is probably going to happen
• current: Electricity flowing through wires
• roughly: Approximately; (of numbers) about; around
• separate: Being different from or unrelated to another
• reality: What is true, as opposed to what is imagined
• decade: Period of 10 years
• notion: Sudden idea or desire to do something
• acknowledge: To say you have received a letter, gift, etc.
• ignore: To not listen to, look at, or pay attention to
• state: Region within a country, with its own government
• bulk: Most of something; majority of
• regime: A system of management; a form of government
• release: To free someone from a responsibility or burden
• footage: A certain amount of film or video of something
• raise: To increase a bet above another when playing cards
• administration: Act of giving e.g. medicine to a patient
• deliver: To give birth to a child; help a woman give birth
• controversy: Strong public disagreement about something
• deny: To refuse to allow or accept something
• lead: Wire for electricity, computer, etc.; cable
• relief: Aid given to people in need as after war/disaster
• connection: Something that joins things together; being joined
• progressive: Believing in modern ideas about social change
• economy: Using money, resources in a careful, effective way
• mystery: Quality of being strange and not understood
• correspondent: Journalist, as one reporting from other countries
• gain: To increase in something, such as weight
• dismiss: To consider that something is at an end
• narrator: Person or character who tells a story
• learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
• president: Person in charge of a country, or organization
• continue: To do something without stopping, or after pausing
• suit: To be appropriate for a given situation
• contest: Struggle or competition between rivals
• rise: To wake up and get out of bed after sleeping
• outrage: Very wrong or cruel act which causes great anger
• cover: To record a different version of another song
• machine: Piece of equipment used to do work
• ransom: Money demanded for the release of a prisoner
• happen: To take place or occur
• give: Degree of flexibility in something, a material
• plane: An airplane
• presidential: Concerning the president
• impeach: To charge a public official with misconduct
• pentagon: A five-sided shape
• renew: To make something stronger, fresher, or like new
• pallet: Flat surface used for moving, storing heavy goods
• battleground: Region where a battle was, or is being fought
• changer: A person who changes something