Vocabulary

• trigger: Lever on a gun that you pull to fire
• progress: To move forward or toward a place or goal
• fragile: Easily affected, broken, or harmed
• completely: In every way or as much as possible
• sense: Certain mental feeling or emotion
• strike: To hit something
• claim: To say that something is true, often without proof.
• pressure: Anxiety caused by difficult problems
• surveillance: Careful watching of a person/place, e.g. by police
• military: Army or armed forces
• deal: To cope with something - usually troubles
• response: Something said/written as an answer to something
• effect: An advantage, benefit
• compare: To consider how similar and different things are
• complete: To finish or reach the end of doing something
• coordinate: To match styles or colors that go well together
• declare: To make a statement in a strong and confident way
• couple: To join something to something else
• reduce: To try to decrease, e.g. your weight if overweight
• correspondent: Journalist, as one reporting from other countries
• leave: To go away from; depart
• target: A goal or amount you are trying to achieve
• command: To be able to see far from a certain location
• stall: Walled area in a barn where a farm animal is kept
• secret: Kept hidden from others; Known only to a few people
• frustrate: To make annoyed because things don't go well
• moment: Very short or brief period of time
• increasingly: More and more; in greater degree or amount
• reduction: Act of making something smaller
• defense: Argument in support of something
• revolutionary: Marking a significant change in something
• coast: Land near the sea or ocean
• order: Religious or social group, as of nuns
• president: Person in charge of a country, or organization
• continue: To do something without stopping, or after pausing
• unravel: To work out the meaning of, in a slow careful way
• middle: Place that is halfway between two things
• accuse: To claim that someone has done something wrong
• rise: To wake up and get out of bed after sleeping
• violate: To abuse, damage or disrespect
• operation: Business or company, or its activities
• strait: Channel joining large bodies of water
• massively: To a very large degree or in a large manner
• part: Division of a book
• petroleum: Oil found in the ground used to make fuel
• world: All the humans, events, activities on the earth
• defiant: Refusing to obey (rules, parent); resistant
• globe: A round object, e.g. like the earth; sphere
• ceasefire: Agreement by two sides in a war to stop fighting
• naval: Concerning a navy or ships used in war
• broker: Person who acts to buy or sell shares in companies
• radar: Radio device used to find the location of objects
• blockade: To block or impede the movement of people, objects
• shaky: Tending to shake, as from weakness or defect