Vocabulary

• sort: To organize things by putting them into groups
• critical: Making a negative judgment of something
• situation: Place, position or area that something is in
• conflict: Argument or struggle between two or more parties
• intelligence: Collection of secret information about something
• military: Army or armed forces
• toll: Sound that a big bell makes, when it is rung
• condition: To improve something to make it better
• 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
• inflation: Act of filling something with air or gas
• threat: Warning of probable trouble
• record: Highest or most extreme level achieved
• correspondent: Journalist, as one reporting from other countries
• energy: Physical or mental strength
• framework: Skeleton structure of a building or construction
• document: Official (printed) record that gives information
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• bill: Plan for a new law being discussed by a government
• coast: Land near the sea or ocean
• president: Person in charge of a country, or organization
• storm: To act violently or angrily
• allow: To admit the validity or truth of something
• support: To give assistance or advice to someone
• crash: To damage an object by causing it to hit something
• interview: To formally ask questions about a given topic
• confirm: To formally approve or check something
• flood: To quickly appear unexpectedly and in volume
• program: To make someone act or think in a certain way
• chance: The way something happens without planning
• bring: To take or go with someone to a place
• middle: Place that is halfway between two things
• nuclear: Concerning or involving the center of an atom
• set: Prepared for something; ready
• senate: A board of governors at a college or university
• strait: Channel joining large bodies of water
• announce: To make a public statement about a plan, decision
• base: Place military personnel live, train, and operate
• enrich: To make someone or something better
• gulf: Part of a sea partially surrounded by land
• takeoff: A composition imitating someones artistic work
• rainfall: Water falling from the sky
• jay: Bird with a blue and white pattern on the wing