Vocabulary

• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• go after: To chase or pursue something
• in particular: Specifically; especially.
• of use: Having practical value; useful or helpful.
• better understanding: An improved level of comprehension or knowledge.
• back up: To save a copy of your computer data
• make up: To invent or create a story
• per year: For each year; annually.
• upwards of: More than; at least.
• used up: To use all of; consume
• in aggregate: Considering everything together as a total amount.
• in places: In some locations but not others
• at a time: Separately; one by one
• take down: To capture physically
• in operation: Currently working or functioning as intended.
• highly unlikely: Not likely to happen or be true; improbable.
• hold off: To delay doing something; postpone.
• on the ground: Located on the surface of the earth.
• bring back: To cause to remember
• roll over: To make a payment later than planned
• end in: To have something as the final result.
• in sight: Visible; able to be seen.
• recognize: To accept the truth or reality of something
• critical: Making a negative judgment of something
• pattern: Model to follow in making or doing something
• experience: Thing a person has done or that happened to them
• conflict: Argument or struggle between two or more parties
• surge: Sudden movement in one direction by many
• develop: To explain something in steps and in detail
• strike: To hit something
• identify: To indicate who or what someone or something is
• current: Electricity flowing through wires
• demand: Desire customers have to buy product, service
• version: Different way that someone interprets something
• epic: Going on for a long time; awe-inspiring
• initial: First letter of your given name
• brief: Information and instructions given for a meeting
• estimate: Guess or calculation of cost, size or value
• military: Army or armed forces
• shelter: Place to protect people/animals from abuse
• address: Exact street location of a place
• require: To demand that someone does something
• obscure: To hide something to make it difficult to be seen
• extra: More than necessary; additional
• threat: Warning of probable trouble
• aid: To help others and provide things
• create: To make, cause, or bring into existence
• relief: Aid given to people in need as after war/disaster
• ground: To break (coffee, etc.) into tiny bits with machine
• acute: (Of an angle in math) of less than 90 degrees
• defense: Argument in support of something
• inventory: List of items stored at a place
• single: One run in cricket or a hit baseball
• control: A device designed to operate a machine
• build: Your physical shape; physique
• volunteer: Working willingly without pay to help others
• bring: To take or go with someone to a place
• middle: Place that is halfway between two things
• deploy: To put into position (often a military operation)
• prolong: To make continue for a longer amount of time
• business: A company formed for making profit
• workforce: The total number of working people
• fury: Rage; violent anger
• siege: Surrounding an enemy to prevent them getting food
• include: To make someone, something part of a group
• missile: A weapon that is thrown, shot or launched
• understand: To know the meaning of language, what someone says
• rocket: Powerful engine that releases hot gases
• group: Two or more musicians who play music together
• problem: Something difficult to deal with or causes trouble
• ballistic: Of the science of movement of rockets and bullets
• warfare: Methods used by those fighting in a war
• bomb: To attack with explosives
• backpack: Bag carried by a strap on your back or shoulder
• takeaway: Employee benefit deleted in union contract
• convoy: Group of moving vehicles, e.g. of an army/navy
• patriot: Person who loves and defends their own country
• brigade: Official group who give help or rescue
• headquarter: Main office of a company or organisation
• interceptor: Fighter plane designed to intercept enemy aircraft