VOCABULARY

Looking at you and seems to know what you are thinking. (2) A sound that is high, sharp and unpleasant. (3) Very cold (4) Causing a lot of pain.

A formal dinner for many people on an important occasion.

Worried or nervous about something that you are going to do, or about the future.

(1) Used in a ceremony or done as part of a ceremony. (2) If a position in a country or organization is ceremonial, it gives no real power.

Empty and available for someone to use.

Very unusual or surprising

Behaving in a calm and serious way, even in a difficult situation, which makes people respect you

To save something from an accident or bad situation in which other things have already been damaged, destroyed, or lost.

A house or an area of a city that is in very bad condition, where poor people live.

Some analysts fear that increasing desperation could lead to a military _____ of the country's southern neighbors.

The Sahara is one of the world's least ______ regions

(1) Very impressive (2) Very sudden, unexpected or extreme.

Continuing without becoming any weaker or less violent.

Something, especially something important, that happens at the end of a long period of effort or development.

The border around an enclosed area such as a military camp.

The offence of driving faster than the legal limit.

A colored line, especially one that is not straight or has been made accidentally.

A way of training someone so that they learn to control their behavior and obey rules.

A death in an accident or a violent attack.

(1) To die or make someone die by preventing them for breathing. (2) To prevent a relationship, plan, business etc. from developing well or being successful.

Very big in size or in amount

Involving actions that are intended to injure or kill people, by hitting them, shooting them etc..