Vocabulary

• going on: To continue doing something
• set on: To attack
• on fire: Very successful or popular
• in danger: Exposed to the risk of harm, injury, or loss.
• go out: To leave a building (e.g. a house)
• in prison: Confined in a prison; incarcerated.
• as well as: Also; in addition to
• for now: Temporarily; for the present time.
• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• turn down: To fold something, e.g. a shirt collar
• massive: Very big; large; too big
• situation: Place, position or area that something is in
• properly: In an appropriate or correct manner
• genuine: Being real, actual, and not false or artificial
• determine: To control exactly how something will be or act
• disorder: State of confusion or a lack of organization
• chaos: State of utter confusion or disorder
• general: Widespread, normal or usual
• familiar: Well-known or easily recognized
• distract: To draw someone's attention away from something
• frankly: Speaking honestly and directly
• debt: Sum of money owed to someone that is not yet paid
• prime: To get a person ready for; prepare someone
• military: Army or armed forces
• capital: Writing the first letter of a word in big letters
• volatile: Able to easily become a gas at a low temperature
• state: Region within a country, with its own government
• similar: Nearly the same; alike
• pretty: Being attractive to the eye in a simple way
• tragedy: Play that has a sad ending with many deaths
• minority: Group that is smaller and different from the rest
• correspondent: Journalist, as one reporting from other countries
• violent: Done with force; likely to produce physical damage
• prison: Place the court puts criminals as punishment; jail
• riot: Person, thing, or event that is extremely funny
• target: A goal or amount you are trying to achieve
• violence: Strong physical force of nature
• tear: Drop of salty water from the eye
• disruption: When a disturbance stops an activity in progress
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• smash: Accident involving vehicles
• channel: Long hole dug in the ground, e.g. to move water
• arrest: To attract someone's attention and hold interest
• president: Person in charge of a country, or organization
• storm: To act violently or angrily
• allow: To admit the validity or truth of something
• disperse: To separate and spread out in different directions
• departure: Act of leaving a place, to start a journey
• minister: An official who heads a government department
• election: Process of choosing someone by voting
• public: Owned by the government
• government: Group of people and system that rule a nation
• perilous: Extremely dangerous, risky
• set: Prepared for something; ready
• question: To ask for or try to get information
• descend: To go down; to move from a higher to a lower place
• include: To make someone, something part of a group
• manifestation: Clear sign or evidence something exists
• burn: To destroy with fire
• erosion: Process of wearing away by water, wind, or ice
• prosecute: To try to prove someone legally guilty of a crime
• hall: Area just inside the entrance of a building
• trouble: To worry, bother or disturb someone
• repress: To keep (emotions) under control; restrict
• barricade: Objects (on a road) to stop people getting past
• carnage: Destruction and devastation involving human deaths
• civic: Of a town or city; of rights or duties of citizens