Vocabulary

• significant: Large enough to be noticed or have an effect
• situation: Place, position or area that something is in
• impact: A striking effect or result to hit with force
• intelligence: Collection of secret information about something
• demand: Desire customers have to buy product, service
• contribute: To be a factor in causing something to happen
• precise: (Of language details etc.) Very accurate and exact
• lack: To not have, or not have enough, of something
• condition: To improve something to make it better
• deal: To cope with something - usually troubles
• wonder: Surprise caused by experiencing something amazing
• state: Region within a country, with its own government
• emerge: To rise or appear out of some background
• security: Department in a company in charge of protection
• release: To free someone from a responsibility or burden
• challenge: An activity you wish to try that may be hard to do
• coordinate: To match styles or colors that go well together
• deliver: To give birth to a child; help a woman give birth
• deny: To refuse to allow or accept something
• lead: Wire for electricity, computer, etc.; cable
• yield: To bend or break because of a strong force
• correspondent: Journalist, as one reporting from other countries
• leave: To go away from; depart
• violence: Strong physical force of nature
• moment: Very short or brief period of time
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• arrest: To attract someone's attention and hold interest
• place: To put someone in a particular type of situation
• single: One run in cricket or a hit baseball
• kind: In a caring and helpful manner
• promise: To say you will certainly do something
• information: Collection of facts and details about something
• unfold: (Of a situation) to be told or revealed
• government: Group of people and system that rule a nation
• fortify: To protect against military attack, as with walls
• militant: Using strong forceful methods to achieve a goal
• complain: To say something is wrong and should be changed
• ransom: Money demanded for the release of a prisoner
• location: Particular position or area of place, event, etc.
• datum: Item of factual information
• neighbor: Person who lives, or is near, you
• update: Addition of a current version of something
• abduction: Crime of taking (a child) away by force
• displace: To cause someone to move from their usual place
• coincidentally: In an unplanned manner; by chance
• abduct: To take away by force, usually to get money
• stronghold: Castle, fort etc. place that is fortified or secure
• insurgency: Armed rebellion to get rid of a government
• northeast: Location in the northeastern part of an area
• northeastern: Area in both the north and east
• jihad: Holy war that Muslims take part in to defend Islam