Vocabulary

• struggle: To try very hard to do something difficult
• context: Set of facts surrounding a person or event
• situation: Place, position or area that something is in
• matter: To be of great importance; to count
• impact: A striking effect or result to hit with force
• conflict: Argument or struggle between two or more parties
• completely: In every way or as much as possible
• capacity: Ability to hold, involve or contain (e.g. liquids)
• general: Widespread, normal or usual
• sense: Certain mental feeling or emotion
• consequence: Importance of a person or thing
• opinion: Court judge's statement why a decision was made
• territory: Area of land defended by an animal
• pressure: Anxiety caused by difficult problems
• narrative: The telling of a story
• blame: To say someone is responsible for something bad
• frustration: Annoyance because things don't go the way you want
• military: Army or armed forces
• deal: To cope with something - usually troubles
• regime: A system of management; a form of government
• region: Part of a country, of the world, area, etc.
• resolution: End part of a story resolving the conflict
• huge: Very very large
• security: Department in a company in charge of protection
• involve: To have or be included as a part of something
• spin: To make a ball rotate when throwing it
• survive: To continue to live despite illness or trouble
• propaganda: (Use of) message that you want people to accept
• argument: Discussion in which you disagree with someone
• diplomatic: Concerning formal relationships between countries
• solution: Mix of a liquid and a solid or a gas
• social: Involving activity with people, e.g. in free time
• sovereignty: The power a country has to decide for itself
• previously: At an earlier time
• supreme: Greatest in degree/nature/quality; absolute best
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• place: To put someone in a particular type of situation
• important: Having power or authority
• hostility: Hostile action; an act of war
• hit: To have a negative impact on a person/place/thing
• control: A device designed to operate a machine
• continue: To do something without stopping, or after pausing
• exacerbate: To increase the severity or bitterness of
• information: Collection of facts and details about something
• suspicion: Feeling that something or something is doubtful
• support: To give assistance or advice to someone
• strait: Channel joining large bodies of water
• decisive: Able to make choices quickly and confidently
• repeatedly: (Said, done) many times; over and over
• geography: Study of the earth and its natural features
• ceasefire: Agreement by two sides in a war to stop fighting
• battlefield: Region where a battle was, or is being fought
• lego: Child's plastic construction set