Vocabulary

• in the midst of: Surrounded by; in the middle of.
• work in: To make an opening for something in your schedule
• to let: Indicates that a property is available for rent.
• the following: Next in order or sequence.
• set up
• in love with: Feeling romantic love for someone.
• give away
• slip out: To leave a place quietly or secretly, so that no one notices you.
• check out
• compromise: To weaken your position or views
• desperate: Being beyond hope; prepared to do anything
• compassion: Feeling of wanting to help suffering people
• intelligence: Collection of secret information about something
• executive: A senior manager in a business or organization
• spot: A certain place or area
• fluent: Doing something well and with ease
• lethal: Causing or able to cause death
• track: To use marks to follow a wild animal
• psychology: The study of the mind and how it affects behavior
• territory: Area of land defended by an animal
• slip: Act of beginning to fall from losing balance
• concentration: Amount or number of something in a thing or place
• establish: To set or create something to last for a long time
• casual: Being careless or having little thought or effort
• alert: Being aware and able to respond quickly
• escape: Act to briefly ignoring boring or bad things
• resist: To not be affected by e.g. a force or an effect
• settle: To make (a child, etc.) feel calm/ready for sleep
• sabotage: To destroy or damage, often secretly, to weaken
• assignment: Task you are given to do (as in the armed forces)
• witness: To see the signing of an official document
• ally: Someone who supports, helps, or defends you
• torture: Hurting someone to force them to give information
• resistance: Force that stops or slows movement of something
• immerse: To put something in liquid until it is covered
• colleague: Person you work or cooperate with
• accept: To agree to receive or take something offered
• advent: First appearance of something important
• agency: Business that provides some service for others
• profoundly: With a great depth psychologically
• recruit: Person who has just joined the military
• charisma: Special quality of a person that charms/attracts
• prison: Place the court puts criminals as punishment; jail
• deprive: To deny someone access to or take away something
• secret: Kept hidden from others; Known only to a few people
• arrest: To attract someone's attention and hold interest
• midst: Middle area or part of something
• volunteer: Working willingly without pay to help others
• catch: Amount of something that has been caught
• raid: Sudden entry by police; surprise attack by army
• protect: To defend someone or something from harm or danger
• execution: Killing a person as a (usually legal) punishment
• question: To ask for or try to get information
• land: Region or country
• auxiliary: Helping or supporting a function or group
• isolate: To identify, consider, or deal with separately
• jealousy: Unhappy feeling of wanting what someone else has
• devastation: Act of ruining or destroying something
• espionage: Act of spying
• siren: Device that produces loud warning sounds; alarm
• train: Line of people, animals moving the same direction
• work: The product of some artistic or literary endeavor
• begin: To do the first part of an action; to start
• tenure: Land or buildings one owns
• arm: To activate a weapon or bomb for use
• give: Degree of flexibility in something, a material
• wireless: Needing no wires to make something operate
• stealth: Manner of moving so as to avoid being seen
• study: To focus on learning something usually at school
• run: To depart or travel according to a schedule
• muslim: Of or relating to Islam
• home: House, apartment or building to be rented or sold
• screwdriver: Cocktail made with vodka and orange juice
• whirlwind: Very powerful dangerous spinning wind