Vocabulary

• stand with: To support or defend someone or something.
• on the road: Traveling, especially as part of a tour or journey.
• take over: To gain control of (a company) from someone else
• watch over: To protect or guard someone or something.
• right next to: Immediately adjacent to; in very close proximity to.
• along with: In addition to; together with.
• next to: Being located along side another
• taken over: To gain control of (a company) from someone else
• intense: Very strong, great or extreme in degree
• strategy: Careful plan or method for achieving a goal
• crisis: Unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty
• effective: Working efficiently to produce a desired result
• force: Group of persons trained for military action; army
• chaos: State of utter confusion or disorder
• strike: To hit something
• excessive: Beyond what is usual or proper
• commercial: Radio or television advertisement
• pressure: Anxiety caused by difficult problems
• financial: Involving money
• disrupt: To cause a disturbance in an activity in progress
• prosperity: State of being financially/economically successful
• prompt: Message on a computer requiring attention
• grip: To hold someone's interest
• democracy: System of government in which everyone is equal
• radical: Person who believes in extreme political change
• create: To make, cause, or bring into existence
• protest: To argue against something in a forceful way
• route: Way to get from one place to another place; path
• offensive: Causing displeasure or anger
• violent: Done with force; likely to produce physical damage
• phase: Different stages of the moon from new to full
• prove: To demonstrate truth by providing evidence
• riot: Person, thing, or event that is extremely funny
• peak: Part of a cap that sticks out over your eyes
• rescue: To save someone who is in danger or in trouble
• organize: To arrange and plan things, e.g. a party
• activity: An action or task, e.g. sports, washing clothes
• movement: Part of a piece of classical music
• tear: Drop of salty water from the eye
• correspondent: Journalist, as one reporting from other countries
• enterprise: A business or organization
• disruption: When a disturbance stops an activity in progress
• assign: To give someone a particular job to do
• public: Owned by the government
• continue: To do something without stopping, or after pausing
• defend: To protect and explain your position in court
• campus: Grounds of an institution, e.g. a university
• government: Group of people and system that rule a nation
• rubber: Material used to make tires, etc.
• unrest: Disturbance, e.g. of crowd in protest against
• fortress: Military buildings providing protection
• head: To hit a ball with your head in a game
• business: A company formed for making profit
• tunnel: Passage under the ground, often for cars or trains
• prepare: To make something ready for use
• frank: Member of the ancient Germanic peoples
• payroll: Money needed to pay those working for a company
• burn: To destroy with fire
• defensive: Protecting something, yourself from attack
• hive: Place that has a lot of activity in it
• university: High-level educational institution; college
• strategically: In a strategic or carefully worked out way
• clear: Empty; without anything in it or on it
• escalation: An increase in severity
• gasoline: Liquid we put in cars to make them run
• barricade: Objects (on a road) to stop people getting past
• harbour: Area of water protected by land and used by ships
• gravely: In a serious and solemn manner
• ordinance: Law, especially a local one; statute