Vocabulary

• at least: As a minimum
• in the future: At a later time; in times to come.
• search for: To try to find someone or something.
• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• have to: Must do
• see in: To accompany someone to the entrance of a building or room.
• ultimately: Done or considered as the final and most important
• material: Cloth; fabric
• desperate: Being beyond hope; prepared to do anything
• improve: To make, or become, something better
• determine: To control exactly how something will be or act
• positive: Showing agreement or support for something
• common: Area in a city or town that is open to everyone
• scene: Incident where someone behaves angrily, badly
• community: Group of people who share a common idea or area
• express: To send something by fast mail
• grief: Feeling of great sadness because someone has died
• proper: Correct according to social or moral rules
• property: Particular quality that someone or something has
• increase: To make or become larger in size or amount
• bit: Device put in a horse's mouth to control it
• initial: First letter of your given name
• collapse: To fold (e.g. a stroller) down to make it smaller
• accountable: Be responsible to someone or for some activity
• afford: To make available, to provide
• huge: Very very large
• accountability: Responsibility to someone or for some activity
• debris: Remains of something broken or destroyed
• responsible: Being the cause of something that has occurred
• tragedy: Play that has a sad ending with many deaths
• fulfill: To finish or provide something successfully
• incident: Event, usually unusual or important; accident
• construction: Act of building something; thing that is built
• tragic: (Of a play, movie, or book) with a sad ending
• responsibility: Job, task or thing you are expected to look after
• correspondent: Journalist, as one reporting from other countries
• leave: To go away from; depart
• bury: To put something into the ground and cover it
• tuition: Money that is paid for lessons
• receive: To get something someone has given or sent to you
• investigation: Search for information about something
• arrest: To attract someone's attention and hold interest
• place: To put someone in a particular type of situation
• kind: In a caring and helpful manner
• learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
• build: Your physical shape; physique
• government: Group of people and system that rule a nation
• neighborhood: Area of a town or city that people live in
• mourn: To feel or show extreme sadness
• income: Earned money from work, investments or business
• devastation: Act of ruining or destroying something
• echo: (Of a place) to be filled with repeating sounds
• hold: To agree to keep something for someone
• tutor: A teacher who deals with students personally
• oversight: A mistake; something you forget to do
• rubble: Rough, broken stones from destroyed building
• harrowing: Extremely shocking or upsetting
• negligence: Failure to give someone or something enough care