Vocabulary

• commitment: Permanent love or concern for person, thing
• desperate: Being beyond hope; prepared to do anything
• basically: Used before you explain something simply, clearly
• realize: To become aware of or understand mentally
• convince: To persuade someone, or make them feel sure
• fear: Unpleasant feeling caused by being aware of danger
• suppose: To imagine or guess what might happen
• pressure: Anxiety caused by difficult problems
• shed: Small building used for storage
• prime: To get a person ready for; prepare someone
• fuel: To give power to (a mob, anger, etc.); incite
• accountable: Be responsible to someone or for some activity
• irony: Quality of being funny because it is the opposite
• remain: To be left behind; to continue to exist
• response: Something said/written as an answer to something
• stumble: Failing to do something well, e.g. giving a speech
• security: Department in a company in charge of protection
• expand: To make something larger in size, number, amount
• intervention: Getting involved to solve a disagreement, problem
• consolidate: To combine into one; make bigger or stronger
• irrational: Not sensible or reasonable; illogical
• accept: To agree to receive or take something offered
• break: To create a new record e.g. running the 100m dash
• breach: To break laws or barriers (e.g. walls)
• leave: To go away from; depart
• framework: Skeleton structure of a building or construction
• criticize: To assess the work of others
• strategic: Concerned with strategy; well thought out
• proceed: To continue to do something; carry on
• exert: To make something have an effect on something else
• defense: Argument in support of something
• insist: To demand that someone do something
• important: Having power or authority
• place: To put someone in a particular type of situation
• sign: Indication that something exists or will happen
• hit: To have a negative impact on a person/place/thing
• fact: Something that is known or proved to be true
• continue: To do something without stopping, or after pausing
• zone: Area of space designated for a particular use
• program: To make someone act or think in a certain way
• point: An item to be discussed
• middle: Place that is halfway between two things
• violate: To abuse, damage or disrespect
• question: To ask for or try to get information
• expansion: Making or becoming larger
• strait: Channel joining large bodies of water
• escalation: An increase in severity
• regional: Of a particular area, not the whole of a country
• parcel: A package or box wrapped in paper sent in the mail
• ceasefire: Agreement by two sides in a war to stop fighting
• politic: Careful what you say; diplomatic
• avail: To make use of an opportunity or an advantage