Vocabulary

• ultimately: Done or considered as the final and most important
• potential: Capable of happening or becoming reality
• infrastructure: Basic necessary equipment for a country or region
• conflict: Argument or struggle between two or more parties
• urge: A strong desire for something
• consider: To think carefully about something
• prime: To get a person ready for; prepare someone
• military: Army or armed forces
• 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
• deal: To cope with something - usually troubles
• state: Region within a country, with its own government
• foundation: Base or important starting point
• essence: Most important part or quality of something
• regime: A system of management; a form of government
• launch: Starting a new project; introducing new product
• reaction: Bodily response to a drug or something eaten
• drop: Distance between a higher and a lower level
• break: To create a new record e.g. running the 100m dash
• respond: To answer something or someone
• request: To ask for, usually politely and formally
• guard: To keep watch over something to protect it
• additional: Further or added
• defense: Argument in support of something
• revolutionary: Marking a significant change in something
• place: To put someone in a particular type of situation
• hit: To have a negative impact on a person/place/thing
• kind: In a caring and helpful manner
• president: Person in charge of a country, or organization
• civilian: Ordinary person who is not in the army
• director: Senior person who manages part of an organization
• minister: An official who heads a government department
• decide: To make a choice or choose after thinking about it
• slide: Part of machines that slides backward and forward
• program: To make someone act or think in a certain way
• middle: Place that is halfway between two things
• fail: To be unsuccessful in passing a class or exam
• negotiate: To have a formal discussion to reach an agreement
• versa: used to say that what you have just said is also true in the opposite order
• strait: Channel joining large bodies of water
• missile: A weapon that is thrown, shot or launched
• wide: Having a great distance from one side to the other
• return: To hit something back to the other player or team
• group: Two or more musicians who play music together
• gum: To cover or stick with adhesive
• time: Speed at which music is played; tempo
• regional: Of a particular area, not the whole of a country
• commander: Person with authority who commands or controls
• ballistic: Of the science of movement of rockets and bullets
• gulf: Part of a sea partially surrounded by land
• retaliate: To take revenge for something harmful or wrong
• ceasefire: Agreement by two sides in a war to stop fighting
• battlefield: Region where a battle was, or is being fought
• disconnect: To separate something from something else
• northern: In or toward the north
• corps: A tactical unit of ground combat forces