Vocabulary

• talking about: To discuss a particular topic.
• based on: To use something as the foundation or starting point for something else.
• pass through: To experience something, often unpleasant or difficult.
• update on: To provide the latest information about something.
• to do with: To be about something; concern
• of course: Sure ; Certainly
• go beyond: To do more than planned or expected; exceed
• clear as mud: Very unclear or confusing; not easy to understand.
• in evidence: Easily seen; apparent or obvious.
• turn around: To change your body to the opposite direction
• rather than: More exactly; more correctly
• prior to: Before a particular time or event.
• back up: To save a copy of your computer data
• set to: To energetically begin to do, e.g. making a fire
• get through: To arrive at the end of or finish something
• at large: (of a person or animal, especially one that is dangerous) not captured; free.
• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• for long: For a considerable period of time.
• shoot up: To increase rapidly and suddenly.
• fill up
• sort: To organize things by putting them into groups
• process: To organize and use data in a computer
• scenario: An imagined sequence of events in a plan/project
• situation: Place, position or area that something is in
• term: Conditions applying to an agreement, contract
• consequence: Importance of a person or thing
• narrative: The telling of a story
• concentrate: To cause to be present in large amount or number
• industry: Hard work; being busy working
• frustrating: To make annoyed because things don't go well
• reverse: Setting that makes the vehicle go backward
• chill: State of being a little cold
• cruise: To easily achieve
• inflation: Act of filling something with air or gas
• response: Something said/written as an answer to something
• blow: To move something using air
• rhetoric: The study of public speaking or writing techniques
• expectation: Belief or hope that something is going to happen
• couple: To join something to something else
• clarity: Being easy to be seen through, heard or understood
• economy: Using money, resources in a careful, effective way
• respond: To answer something or someone
• exception: Something different or not included
• invasion: Entry into a place to cause harm
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• hostage: Person held prisoner to get a demand satisfied
• pain: Strong feeling of hurt or discomfort
• president: Person in charge of a country, or organization
• fact: Something that is known or proved to be true
• amplify: To increase the effect of something
• container: An object that can be used to hold things
• maritime: Concerning sailing, ships
• accuse: To claim that someone has done something wrong
• wary: Concerned about danger; cautious; circumspect
• strait: Channel joining large bodies of water
• hold: To agree to keep something for someone
• think: To have an idea about something without certainty
• environmental: Of the natural world of plants and animals
• case: Container used to carry things, e.g. clothes
• base: Place military personnel live, train, and operate
• mud: Soft, wet dirt
• level: Specific height of something
• escalation: An increase in severity
• country: An area of land that is controlled by a government
• feather: One of the many light soft things on a bird's body
• ceasefire: Agreement by two sides in a war to stop fighting
• price: Person's name
• long: Person's name
• report: Account of the necessary facts and information
• projectile: Something thrown or fired at a target
• diversion: Action designed to distract attention
• nick: Person's name
• gallon: Unit of liquid equal to 4 US quarts (3.785 liters)
• shipping: To transport goods by boat, truck or plane
• inverse: Being the opposite of something else
• marshal: Person who has a high position in the military
• tanker: Vehicle built to transport liquids
• yahoo: Person who is not very intelligent or cultured