Vocabulary

• approach: To get close to reaching something or somewhere
• context: Set of facts surrounding a person or event
• situation: Place, position or area that something is in
• properly: In an appropriate or correct manner
• strike: To hit something
• track: To use marks to follow a wild animal
• separate: Being different from or unrelated to another
• blame: To say someone is responsible for something bad
• alert: Being aware and able to respond quickly
• concern: To be about a particular topic
• gear: To aim at or prepare yourself for something
• explain: To make clear or easy to understand by describing
• perform: To carry out an action well or successfully
• emphasize: To stress the items that are important
• require: To demand that someone does something
• congress: Meeting of elected or appointed representatives
• contact: Touching or feeling something
• fatal: Causing death; having very bad consequences
• board: Surface for posting or showing information
• pretty: Being attractive to the eye in a simple way
• capture: To attract and hold e.g. interest, attention
• incident: Event, usually unusual or important; accident
• break: To create a new record e.g. running the 100m dash
• ground: To break (coffee, etc.) into tiny bits with machine
• fall: Season after summer and before winter; Autumn
• correspondent: Journalist, as one reporting from other countries
• investigate: To try to find out facts; to carry out research
• collision: Act of crashing into someone or something else
• aviation: Science or practice of flying aircraft
• vary: To change something and make it different
• bill: Plan for a new law being discussed by a government
• important: Having power or authority
• technology: Use or knowledge of science in industry etc.
• hit: To have a negative impact on a person/place/thing
• control: A device designed to operate a machine
• learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
• aircraft: Vehicle that can fly
• information: Collection of facts and details about something
• crash: To damage an object by causing it to hit something
• piece: A counter in a board game
• pole: One of two opposite ideas, qualities or positions
• transportation: Act of moving people or goods between places
• captain: Title of a senior officer in the military
• liberty: Doing as one wants without asking
• descend: To go down; to move from a higher to a lower place
• descent: Movement downward; movement toward something bad
• jersey: Shirt worn as part of a sports uniform
• datum: Item of factual information
• radar: Radio device used to find the location of objects
• update: Addition of a current version of something
• takeaway: Employee benefit deleted in union contract
• cockpit: Area in (plane, boat) where the pilot, driver sits
• runway: Long road where planes take off and land
• nope: A dialect or emphatic way of saying 'No'
• mid: At (or near) the middle point