Vocabulary

• have to: Must do
• evidence of: Facts, objects, or signs that make you believe that something is true.
• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• of course: Sure ; Certainly
• think of: To look on as (being something specific); consider
• set up
• go on: To continue doing something
• going on: To continue doing something
• vote in: To elect someone into a position by voting.
• bad press: Negative publicity or media coverage.
• talking about: To discuss a particular topic.
• call it quits: To stop doing something; to give up
• on and off: Intermittently; not continuously.
• straighten out: To resolve a problem or difficulty; to clarify a misunderstanding.
• sit down: To take a seat
• down with: Suffering from an illness.
• live on: To continue to exist or be remembered.
• bunch: A group of things of the same kind
• present: Being in attendance; being there; having turned up
• evidence: Factual proof that helps to establish the truth
• completely: In every way or as much as possible
• urge: A strong desire for something
• commit: To do something bad, usually a crime
• guilty: Responsible for doing something wrong
• acknowledge: To say you have received a letter, gift, etc.
• compensate: To give (money) to as a form of correcting a loss
• direction: When someone tells people what to do
• congress: Meeting of elected or appointed representatives
• drop: Distance between a higher and a lower level
• fair: Neither very good nor very bad; average
• assault: To attack someone physically or emotionally
• vicious: Very dangerous, e.g. an animal or dog
• press: Machine using pressure to shape, flatten, squeeze
• leave: To go away from; depart
• violent: Done with force; likely to produce physical damage
• attorney: Person giving legal advice; a lawyer
• fake: Not real; made to look like something real
• suicide: Act of purposely killing yourself
• destroy: To damage so badly that something no longer exists
• kind: In a caring and helpful manner
• president: Person in charge of a country, or organization
• continue: To do something without stopping, or after pausing
• build: Your physical shape; physique
• election: Process of choosing someone by voting
• government: Group of people and system that rule a nation
• interview: To formally ask questions about a given topic
• surround: To be all the way around something
• pick: Sharp tool used for breaking the ground
• great: Very good; better than before
• legal: Concerning the law; allowed by law
• quit: To leave a job
• approve: To formally accept something or grant permission
• usher: One who leads you to your seat, as in a theater
• rig: To dishonestly fix the result of elections, games
• fast: In a way that is difficult to move or change
• revive: To return to life, good health, strength etc.
• minute: Notes taken at a meeting to record what was said
• cheat: To be unfaithful to (your wife, boyfriend etc.)
• cop: Slang for police officer
• stupid: Not intelligent; lacking ability to learn easily
• fund: To supply money for something
• jail: Place to hold criminals being punished for a crime
• plead: To ask or beg for something in an urgent way
• landslide: Slide of dirt and rock down a mountain or cliff
• disappoint: To not meet the expectations of others or yourself
• crook: A criminal or thief; dishonest person
• update: Addition of a current version of something
• abc: First letters of the Roman alphabet