Vocabulary

• take out: To apply for and get a license
• on board: Being on a ship, plane, or other vehicle
• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• in the past: During a former period of time; previously.
• set to: To energetically begin to do, e.g. making a fire
• multiple: Having or involving more than one of something
• urge: A strong desire for something
• strike: To hit something
• demand: Desire customers have to buy product, service
• research: To study in order to discover new ideas and facts
• ability: The power, resources or skill to do something
• precise: (Of language details etc.) Very accurate and exact
• blast: To attack someone with words
• dramatic: Gripping the attention; causing an effect
• direct: To tell someone in a very clear way to do something
• region: Part of a country, of the world, area, etc.
• rip: To tear or split roughly or cause to tear or split
• threat: Warning of probable trouble
• board: Surface for posting or showing information
• expire: To breathe out
• rest: Time when one relaxes, sleeps, or is inactive
• major: High-ranking officer in the army
• layer: One of several sheets of a material or object
• grid: Electrical network supplying electricity to area
• slam: To criticize sharply
• social: Involving activity with people, e.g. in free time
• ramp: Path that increases in height as you walk up it
• escalate: To increase in size, intensity, or scope
• obliterate: To completely destroy; rub out; stamp out
• scandal: Unacceptable/immoral event causing public shock
• hit: To have a negative impact on a person/place/thing
• president: Person in charge of a country, or organization
• promise: To say you will certainly do something
• fully: Completely or entirely
• build: Your physical shape; physique
• threaten: To cause something potential harm, or put at risk
• program: To make someone act or think in a certain way
• point: An item to be discussed
• accuse: To claim that someone has done something wrong
• worse: Comparative of 'bad'; more bad
• nuclear: Concerning or involving the center of an atom
• set: Prepared for something; ready
• land: Region or country
• lay: Amateur; not being a trained priest
• include: To make someone, something part of a group
• strait: Channel joining large bodies of water
• fast: In a way that is difficult to move or change
• missile: A weapon that is thrown, shot or launched
• start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
• defiant: Refusing to obey (rules, parent); resistant
• residential: Concerning patients staying in a hospital
• escalation: An increase in severity
• cork: The wooden stopper in a wine bottle top
• delirious: Talking in a confused anxious way due to fever
• ballistic: Of the science of movement of rockets and bullets
• retaliate: To take revenge for something harmful or wrong
• ceasefire: Agreement by two sides in a war to stop fighting
• deadline: A date or time before which something must be done
• amphibious: Operating or living on land and in water
• pope: Bishop of Rome and the head of the Catholic Church
• multi: A prefix meaning 'many' or 'more than one'
• shipping: To transport goods by boat, truck or plane
• inflection: Change in a person's voice when talking
• ultimatum: Final demand or proposition
• abc: First letters of the Roman alphabet