Vocabulary

• call for: To demand, need or require (an action or thing)
• perception: Way in which one sees or understands something
• pursue: To follow and try to catch, or to reach a goal
• capacity: Ability to hold, involve or contain (e.g. liquids)
• intelligence: Collection of secret information about something
• position: Person's opinion or attitude about something
• firm: Company that sells goods or services
• ability: The power, resources or skill to do something
• virtually: In an almost complete or entire manner
• prime: To get a person ready for; prepare someone
• military: Army or armed forces
• suffer: To experience pain, illness, or injury
• state: Region within a country, with its own government
• regime: A system of management; a form of government
• security: Department in a company in charge of protection
• release: To free someone from a responsibility or burden
• footage: A certain amount of film or video of something
• launch: Starting a new project; introducing new product
• secure: To get or achieve something with certainty
• widespread: Happening or existing in many places
• agency: Business that provides some service for others
• produce: Fresh foods such as fruits and vegetables
• participate: To take part with others in doing something
• drone: A remote controlled flying device
• aim: Act of pointing something at a target
• destroy: To damage so badly that something no longer exists
• revolutionary: Marking a significant change in something
• escalate: To increase in size, intensity, or scope
• sign: Indication that something exists or will happen
• hit: To have a negative impact on a person/place/thing
• president: Person in charge of a country, or organization
• committee: Group of people who do or decide something
• director: Senior person who manages part of an organization
• continue: To do something without stopping, or after pausing
• government: Group of people and system that rule a nation
• natural: Being as one would expect; being usual or normal
• set: Prepared for something; ready
• cease: To come or bring to an end; stop continuing
• strait: Channel joining large bodies of water
• missile: A weapon that is thrown, shot or launched
• defensive: Protecting something, yourself from attack
• residential: Concerning patients staying in a hospital
• capability: Means, ability, or potential to do something
• enrich: To make someone or something better
• deputy: Assistant to a leader who acts on his, her behalf
• location: Particular position or area of place, event, etc.
• ballistic: Of the science of movement of rockets and bullets
• show: To be easily seen or displayed
• truce: Agreement between opponents to stop fighting
• islamic: Concerning the culture and people of Islamic
• israel: Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean; formerly part of Palestine
• chancellor: High government official
• uranium: Radioactive element used for nuclear energy/weapon
• help: To act to enable a person to do something; assist
• corps: A tactical unit of ground combat forces
• shrapnel: Small metal pieces from an exploding bomb
• alight: (Mainly British) on fire
• destabilize: To make unstable or unpredictable
• kill: To cause someone to experience a lot of pain
• conduit: Something that carries water, gas, etc.; pipe