Vocabulary

• context: Set of facts surrounding a person or event
• practice: The office and place for legal or medical work
• urge: A strong desire for something
• treat: To pay for the food or enjoyment of someone else
• divide: To split numbers by another number, e.g. 6 / 2 = 3
• prime: To get a person ready for; prepare someone
• victim: Person/thing affected by an unpleasant event
• political: Being active or interested in government matters
• rage: Strong or violent anger
• response: Something said/written as an answer to something
• upset: (Of stomach, etc.) not functioning well; sick
• behavior: The way a person or thing acts; manner
• decision: Choice made after thinking; final judgment
• release: To free someone from a responsibility or burden
• footage: A certain amount of film or video of something
• independent: Making your own decisions; acting by yourself
• create: To make, cause, or bring into existence
• ethnic: Of people who share the same culture, traditions
• protest: To argue against something in a forceful way
• tragic: (Of a play, movie, or book) with a sad ending
• respond: To answer something or someone
• dominate: To be taller, bigger, or more physically obvious
• responsibility: Job, task or thing you are expected to look after
• correspondent: Journalist, as one reporting from other countries
• violent: Done with force; likely to produce physical damage
• crime: Act that is believed to be a mistake or foolish
• violence: Strong physical force of nature
• racism: Belief that people of other races are bad/inferior
• condemn: To say that (a building) is too unsafe to be used
• arrest: To attract someone's attention and hold interest
• kind: In a caring and helpful manner
• division: How many times a number is contained in another
• public: Owned by the government
• government: Group of people and system that rule a nation
• point: An item to be discussed
• bring: To take or go with someone to a place
• wrong: Action that is harmful, unjust or illegal
• question: To ask for or try to get information
• stab: To strike a blow with a knife, as to kill someone
• make: To arrange or prepare something e.g. dinner
• pose: To be or exist as (a problem, threat etc.)
• allegation: Accusation against someone (often in court)
• think: To have an idea about something without certainty
• group: Two or more musicians who play music together
• plea: Response given by a person charged with a crime
• grieve: To feel great sadness, as when someone dies
• tier: One of the rising rows of seats, e.g. in a stadium
• unacceptable: Not being or behaving in the correct or right way
• handcuff: Police object used to restrain hands of criminals
• unforgivable: That cannot be forgiven; inexcusable