Vocabulary

• gear up: To prepare for an activity or event.
• in the field: Working or doing research in a real-world environment, not in a classroom or laboratory.
• know about: To have information or understanding of a subject or situation.
• in fact: Used to emphasize the truth of a statement, especially one that contrasts with or contradicts something else.
• go out: To leave a building (e.g. a house)
• cut down: To reduce your use of something
• after all: In spite of what was expected; used to introduce a statement that supports a previous statement or explains why it was made
• used to: Did regularly before, but don't do now
• for example: As an illustration or instance.
• inside of: Within; in the inner part of.
• break up
• live on: To continue to exist or be remembered.
• distraction: Something drawing your attention away from
• grab: To take and hold something quickly
• evidence: Factual proof that helps to establish the truth
• force: Group of persons trained for military action; army
• encounter: To come up against a problem or trouble; meet
• lethal: Causing or able to cause death
• suppose: To imagine or guess what might happen
• criticism: Article or essay that judges quality
• field: Area of study, such as physics or biology
• affect: To cause a change in something else
• gear: To aim at or prepare yourself for something
• draw: To attract attention to someone or something
• resist: To not be affected by e.g. a force or an effect
• pregnant: Carrying your unborn baby inside you
• federal: Consisting of several united states
• acronym: A word made from the first letters of other words
• security: Department in a company in charge of protection
• fatal: Causing death; having very bad consequences
• deliver: To give birth to a child; help a woman give birth
• risk: To do something potentially dangerous or foolish
• break: To create a new record e.g. running the 100m dash
• argument: Discussion in which you disagree with someone
• accelerate: To cause to occur earlier than expected
• civil: Of citizens of a country; not military, criminal
• correspondent: Journalist, as one reporting from other countries
• leave: To go away from; depart
• prison: Place the court puts criminals as punishment; jail
• emission: A substance (e.g. gas) released into the air
• notice: To become aware by sight, touch, or hearing
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• arrest: To attract someone's attention and hold interest
• channel: Long hole dug in the ground, e.g. to move water
• important: Having power or authority
• solely: With no one or nothing else
• pain: Strong feeling of hurt or discomfort
• system: Set of organized, planned ideas that work together
• fact: Something that is known or proved to be true
• button: Small round piece material used to fasten clothing
• act: To behave in a certain way
• threaten: To cause something potential harm, or put at risk
• guidance: Advice on what to do in school, job, future
• electronic: Operating by use of electricity; digital
• painful: Causing or feeling physical pain or hurt
• discretion: The right to exercise your own judgment
• official: Real, exact, truely felt
• entail: To have as a necessary part or result
• swift: Quick
• escalation: An increase in severity
• tag: Child's game in which one person chases the others
• pepper: Green, red, or yellow vegetable with hollow center
• update: Addition of a current version of something
• homeland: Country where you were born