Vocabulary

• general: Widespread, normal or usual
• executive: A senior manager in a business or organization
• confident: Feeling that you can do well at something
• represent: To depict art objects, figures, scenes; to portray
• political: Being active or interested in government matters
• authority: The power to give orders to people
• vice: used as part of the title of particular positions. The person who holds one of these positions is next below in authority to the person who holds the full position and can act for them
• compensate: To give (money) to as a form of correcting a loss
• federal: Consisting of several united states
• primary: Most important, most basic or essential
• congress: Meeting of elected or appointed representatives
• decision: Choice made after thinking; final judgment
• release: To free someone from a responsibility or burden
• lame: Having a damaged leg/foot making walking painful
• independent: Making your own decisions; acting by yourself
• administration: Act of giving e.g. medicine to a patient
• district: Area of a country, city, or town
• beat: To move in regular motions in order to push blood
• fair: Neither very good nor very bad; average
• lead: Wire for electricity, computer, etc.; cable
• article: Word such as 'a', 'an', or 'the' used before nouns
• respond: To answer something or someone
• mind: To be bothered or upset by something
• attorney: Person giving legal advice; a lawyer
• reassure: To make feel less worried about something
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• bill: Plan for a new law being discussed by a government
• important: Having power or authority
• sign: Indication that something exists or will happen
• expedition: Long journey, often to a dangerous or new place
• president: Person in charge of a country, or organization
• spend: To use money to pay for something
• act: To behave in a certain way
• government: Group of people and system that rule a nation
• paycheck: Check issued in payment of wages or salary
• basic: At the most important or easiest (beginner) level
• step: Movement done as part of a particular dance
• senate: A board of governors at a college or university
• pose: To be or exist as (a problem, threat etc.)
• dime: Coin worth 10 US cents
• part: Division of a book
• season: One of Spring, Summer, Autumn (Fall) and Winter
• senator: An elected politician belonging to the senate
• anti: A prefix meaning 'against' or 'opposed'
• slim: Being thin in an appealing way
• jail: Place to hold criminals being punished for a crime
• republican: Supporter of the conservative US political party
• legislative: Having the power or ability to make laws
• genesis: Beginning of something important
• unpack: To try to understand by thinking about something
• congressman: Member of the US House of Representatives
• appropriation: Setting aside of money for a specific purpose