atrocity
/əˈtɹɑsəti/
noun
an extremely brutal act, especially in war
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1Atrocities were perpetrated on a massive scale, on both sides.
2He called this new law an atrocity.
3George Eliot committed atrocities with it that beggar description.
4Atrocities are happening right now.
5There were atrocities.
admiral
/ˈædmɝəɫ/
noun
the highest-ranking officer in a fleet
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1Put on your admiral's hat.
2Put on your admiral's hat.
3The admiral and I talked about selection of a major as a Plebe back in 1977.
4-Bill McRaven, retired Admiral, Navy SEAL, 37 years, former head of U.S. Special Operations.
5A Genoese admiral by the name of Andrea Doria had been marauding Ottoman holdings in the Peloponnese.
colonel
/ˈkɝnəɫ/
noun
a high-ranking officer in the US army, marine or air force, whose rank is between a lieutenant colonel and brigadier general
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1My name is Colonel.
2A colonel is a rank in the military.
3"Colonel!" called Benjamin shrilly.
4The colonel is very vulnerable.
5The colonel is a genius. -
general
/ˈdʒɛnɝəɫ/, /ˈdʒɛnɹəɫ/
noun
a very high-ranking officer in the army, the US air force or the marines
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1He raged at his generals, even reducing the stolid head of the army Zhukov to tears.
2The Whigs always ran generals.
3And generals have troops.
4The key word here is general.
5Also, generals ran their armies this way.
major
/ˈmeɪdʒɝ/
noun
a middle-ranking officer in the armed forces
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1Japanese companies also made major innovations in manufacturing that yielded low production costs and strong, consistent product quality.
2In the past, they were a major stabilizing force during downturns, but during the Great Recession, they became a big drag because of this.
3Majors stars as Montgomery Allen, Fails' best friend.
4Ten is major.
5Twelve is major.
veteran
/ˈvɛtɝən/, /ˈvɛtɹən/
noun
a former member of the armed forces who has fought in a war
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1Veterans bring incredible skills and experiences to the business world.
2At Travis Manion Foundation, veterans lead the way.
3Because veterans get the preference.
4Veterans that volunteer.
5However, only 4 of his Legions were veterans.
to assassinate
/əˈsæsəˌneɪt/
verb
to murder a prominent figure in a sudden attack for political purposes
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1Was he assassinated?
2In the city, his wife and daughter were assassinated in their home.
3In 43 BC, one of Antipater’s own tax collectors assassinated him.
4He was assassinated.
5My father was assassinated.
to blast
/ˈbɫæst/
verb
to violently damage or destroy something using explosives
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1Blasting a hole in the space ship.
2Modern hail cannons basically just blast a bunch of noise into the sky.
3Storm troopers blast their way in.
4American ships blast away from below.
5The volcano blasts its top off.
to blow up
/blˈoʊ ˈʌp/
verb
to cause something to burst or explode
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1Now blow up a planet!
2Blow up!
3That thing blew up?
4A creeper blew up his house in two seconds.
5This testimony blew up the whole narrative of the case.
to bombard
/bɑmˈbɑɹd/
verb
to drop bombs on someone or something continuously
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1And it bombarded the audience with information.
2So I'm not necessarily bombarding people with heavy promotion about my youtube video.
3The same year, a rainfall of hundreds of fish bombarded residents of Lajamanu, Australia, 326 miles from the nearest river.
4Can you bombard people too much?
5Can Milky Way candy bars bombard me too much?
to charge
/ˈtʃɑɹdʒ/
verb
to attack violently and suddenly in a battle
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1His attorney called the charges wholly without merit.
2This vehicle here is charging the pedestrian on the left-hand turn, automatic fail.
3Television, print, radio, outdoor billboards charge you.
4Took charge.
5Charge your phone.
to conquer
/ˈkɑŋkɝ/
verb
to gain control of a place or people using armed forces
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1Conquered a fear!
2- Total bummer, six hours, we only conquered two planets.
3Conquer that mountain!
4All diseases were conquered.
5Technology has conquered death.
to deploy
/dɪˈpɫɔɪ/
verb
to position soldiers or equipment for military action
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1Police, in turn, deployed water cannons.
2Parliament's only response, to deploy even more security forces.
3The police deployed tough tactics against the predominantly young male protesters.
4In 2018, activists deployed the most capital ever.
5People deploy things like luck.
to evacuate
/iˈvækjəˌeɪt/, /ɪˈvækjəˌeɪt/
verb
(of armed forces) to empty a dangerous place
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1The bladder evacuated one or two drams of urine.
2The carrier, Phoenix Air, often evacuates Ebola patients.
3Thirty thousand people were evacuated.
4The U.S government belatedly evacuated people from the islands.
5Evacuate! -
to execute
/ˈɛksəkˌjut/
verb
to kill someone, especially as a legal penalty
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1More specifically, executing his uncle.
2Ditching is purposely executed landing on water.
3Execute your prime function.
4GreenSky's platform executes the entire transaction cycle of credit arrangement.
5Every player in here can execute a shot or a pass.
to mobilize
/ˈmoʊbəˌɫaɪz/
verb
(of a state) to organize and prepare for a military operation
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1The French army’s 280,000 troops were mobilized.
2He mobilized tens of thousands of his supporters.
3They mobilized their forces.
4They mobilized their forces.
5But compassion, the generation of compassion, actually mobilizes our immunity.
to surrender
/sɝˈɛndɝ/
verb
to give in or stop fighting against an enemy
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1In July 1191, the town surrendered.
2Step six is surrender.
3- Surrender my boat?
4Surrender makes sense.
5You surrender your personal life, your body, your mind, everything to him.
to retreat
/ɹiˈtɹit/
verb
(of military) to move away in order to escape the danger because one has been defeated or is weak
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1The man retreats inside.
2UN forces retreated back to the Ch'ongch'on River.
3General Sherman and General McClernand’s troops retreated behind Shiloh Church.
4The Crusader right retreated in disarray.
5The ex-umbrella man retreated.
guerrilla
/ɡɝˈɪɫə/
noun
a person who participates in irregular fighting as a member of an unofficial military group
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1He disliked guerrilla warfare.
2Now, you have this guerrilla movement.
3But the guerrillas continued.
4So what, your actors studied guerrilla theater at the London Rep?
5We've included guerrilla warriors.
militia
/məˈɫɪʃə/, /mɪˈɫɪʃə/
noun
a military group consisting of civilians who have been trained as soldiers to help the army in emergencies
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1The media will paint militia groups as anti-government.
2In July, 1850, government troops attacked a God Worshippersmilitia.
3But Kurdish militias successfully fought back.
4We no longer had militias.
5And the militias are still there.
militant
/ˈmɪɫətənt/
adjective
displaying violent acts for the sake of a social or political aim
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1Islamist militant groups are finding success in other ungoverned spaces as well.
2You have black militants, certainly.
3These young militants undertake a war on bourgeois specialists.
4Also that year, Islamist militants killed 147 people at a university in northern Kenya.
5Palestinian militants sometimes fire rockets at fnearby Israeli towns and cities.
naval
/ˈneɪvəɫ/
adjective
relating or belonging to a navy
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1- All right, launching the naval blockade.
2Historically, naval power equaled power.
3Most intelligence was naval intelligence, army intelligence and state department intelligence.
4They had a naval battle.
5They gave naval support.
civilian
/səˈvɪɫjən/
adjective
relating to a person who is not a part of the armed forces
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1Taliban fighters often use civilians as shields against American airstrikes.
2He hated civilians.
3It hit civilians.
4Ninety percent of modern war casualties are civilians.
5Protecting civilians.
defensive
/dɪˈfɛnsɪv/
adjective
designed or used in a way that provides a person or thing with protection against attack
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1Defensive designs can deter crime.
2We're defensive.
3His strategic goals, therefore, were entirely defensive.
4So, trenches are defensive weapons.
5So what is defensive driving?
explosive
/ɪksˈpɫoʊsɪv/
adjective
capable of exploding and likely to explode
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1An improvised explosive device has been found at the Capitol.
2Meanwhile, China's megacities have seen explosive growth in the last few decades.
3The effects were explosive.
4Anyhow, polyacetylenes are explosive.
5Explosive down the right hand side.
A-bomb
/ˈeɪbˈɑːm/
noun
a nuclear weapon with great destruction power which is released due to the fission of heavy atoms
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1And that's how we thought of relativity and all those other, you know, that's where he had his A-bomb idea 'Conan, he did not have the A-bomb idea.'
2On August 6 1945, the US dropped the first ever atomic bomb deployed in warfare on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, followed 3 days later by an A-bomb in Nagasaki.
3So before he was duking it out with King Kong, Mothra or any other number of spin-off foes, Godzilla was expressing a critical fear about the future of atomic energy and a-bombs.
4Well we started with a giant awakened dino monster that breathes atomic breath on Japan, echoing the post WW2 fears surrounding the rapid expansion of a-bombs worldwide.
5You can just see a lot more radiation exposure during the a-bomb test than either Chernobyl or Fukushima.
rifle
/ˈɹaɪfəɫ/
noun
a long gun suitable for shooting a target over long distances, which is held along shoulder while aiming the target
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1Just grab any rifle.
2Just grab any rifle!
3Rifles like the HK416 or the M16 weigh at least 7 pounds unloaded.
4Each man carried a rifle.
5One of the kids has got his rifle.
fleet
/ˈfɫit/
noun
a group of ships under the command of one high-ranking officer
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1Members of the royal family also use his fleet.
2The fleet eventually reached the offshore island of Bonacca, a few miles from Honduras.
3These fleets will actually bring their vehicles back to the yard.
4Grounded the fleet for three months.
5More explosions rock the fleet, though this time, not from mines.
raid
/ˈɹeɪd/
noun
a surprise attack against a place or a group of people
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1In April of 2018, the police raided the home of Joseph James DeAngelo.
2But the police raided the bars all the time.
3What are raids?
4He raided the studio.
5In 1966, federal agents from the Food and Drug Administration raided a small national food store in Boston, Erewhon.
curfew
/ˈkɝfju/
noun
an order or law that prohibits people from going outside after a specific time, particularly at night
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1First these kids imposed a curfew.
2Curfews are for chumps!
3A curfew is still a possibility.
4You have curfew.
5- I broke curfew.
hostage
/ˈhɑstɪdʒ/
noun
someone held prisoner by a person or group who will be set free if the demands of that person or group are met
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1"Shoot the hostage?"
2A child and a room service waiter were taken hostage by the boy’s disturbed father.
3He wants hostages.
4The hostages came home.
5They take her kids hostage
torture
/ˈtɔɹtʃɝ/
noun
the act of making someone suffer very much so that they do something particular or give crucial information regarding something specific
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1The hangman then applied torture at the direction of a council of examiners.
2No one said torture.
3His jailers tortured prisoners to death.
4Any police in any country of the world is torturing innocent people.
5Torturing the whammy bar.
occupation
/ˌɑkjəˈpeɪʃən/
noun
the act of invading and controlling a country, city, etc.
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1This occupation displaced hundreds of thousands of azeris from their homes.
2That occupation produced thousands of dead torture refugees.
3Mail-related occupations typically require a high school diploma.
4Has a clearly envious person ever put down your occupation?
5What's your occupation?
trench
/ˈtɹɛntʃ/
noun
a long narrow hole dug in the ground in which soldiers move and are protected from enemy fire
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1Far from these ridges, at the edges of continents, researchers also found huge trenches.
2Some people even dig new trenches here.
3All right, our trenches are dug.
4So, trenches are defensive weapons.
5Dig a trench through the center of both halves with your fingers.
truce
/ˈtɹus/
noun
an agreement according to which enemies or opponents stop fighting each other for a specific period of time; the period of time that such agreement lasts
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1Gangs could have truces.
2Life on the savannah offers no truces.
3Life on the savannah offers no truces.
4Life on the savannah offers no truces.
5Truce on that.
to arm
/ˈɑɹm/
verb
to equip and supply with weapons
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1The brain not only gives signals to the missing arm, it receives them as well.
2The jogger puts his hand on the old woman’s arm.
3Across Guangxi, Hong’s followers took up arms.
4Extend arms straight out from shoulders.
5Arm wrestle your father.
warfare
/ˈwɔɹˌfɛɹ/
noun
involvement in war, particularly using certain methods or weapons
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1Every society throughout history, almost up to including the current day, practices warfare.
2He disliked guerrilla warfare.
3For the Greeks, warfare was the supreme statement of a citizen.
4Maya warfare worked differently than that of Eurasia.
5One of the more surprising ones was actually warfare.
machine gun
/məʃˈiːn ɡˈʌn/
noun
a gun that automatically and rapidly fires a succession of bullets upon pressing the trigger
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1I remember fantasying about going into WASHINGTON, D.C. and Standing On a street Corner Holding a Machine Gun and MOWING down black people with that Machine Gun because then My Dad Would'Ve been proud of ME.
2I remember fantasying about going into WASHINGTON, D.C. and Standing On a street Corner Holding a Machine Gun and MOWING down black people with that Machine Gun because then My Dad Would'Ve been proud of ME.
3According to CHARGES a Female Family Member says ALISSA was playing with a Machine Gun two days ago at the RESIDENCE and FAMILY members were ANGRY
evacuation
/iˈvækjəˈweɪʃən/, /ɪˌvækjəˈweɪʃən/
noun
the action of transferring people or being transferred to somewhere else to be safe from a dangerous situation
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1On the 28th of April the British commander in Trondheim, General Paget, ordered an evacuation.
2People would practice evacuations.
3The governor has implemented a mandatory evacuation.
4Yah, the government set up evacuation centers in a few hours?
5Massive earrings or bracelet can slow down evacuation.
command
/kəˈmænd/
noun
an order, particularly given by someone in a position of authority
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1His gestures command attention.
2Your eyes command attention.
3Your smile commands attention, your voi-- like, everything about you.
4The Chief Justice's position commanded four votes.
5Throughout history, the sight of a man with facial hair or full beard commanded respect.
AWOL
/ˈeɪˌwɔɫ/
adjective
(of a soldier) having left one's military duty without being permitted to do so
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1[SPEAKING RUSSIAN] SHANE SMITH: Jason's gone AWOL.
2This is more like going AWOL.
3Some however go AWOL with the intention to leave the military permanently.
4You went AWOL to come back to this?
5- Thanks for watching this week's episode of Really Dough, some good news, Scott's gone AWOL.
bulletproof
/ˈbʊɫətˌpɹuf/
adjective
built in a way that does not let through any bullets or shrapnel
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1The windows of Hevrin’s car were bulletproof.
2This girl's school bus has bulletproof glass.
3That application is bulletproof.
4Introducing the bulletproof Popemobile.
5The fabric is bulletproofed with lightweight carbon nanotubes, custom-tailored into a suit for your specifications.
ground zero
/ɡɹˈaʊnd zˈiəɹoʊ/
noun
the exact location of a nuclear explosion
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1Washington state served as Ground Zero as the spending-averse GOP saw more House victories here than in anywhere else in the country.
2I took this down to Ground Zero, and knocked my way through crowds for an hour.
3In the midst of the wreckage at Ground Zero, I had a realization.
4If they did, it probably was right there at Ground Zero.
5Besides, they weren't even letting people into Ground Zero at the time.
gunner
/ˈɡənɝ/
noun
a member of an armed force who is specifically trained to fire large guns
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1-Who's the gunner?
2The gunner is responsible for the exchange of fire.
3Okay, sight gunner, swing the tower to the right.
4Gunners are very vocal.
5The gunner was throwing candy.
blowgun
/ˈbɫoʊˌɡən/
noun
a tube-like weapon through which an arrow is shot if someone breathes in it forcefully
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1For their ranged weapons the Maya used blowguns, javelins, slings, and a weapon imported from the Mexican highlands, the atlatl or spear thrower.
2We shot it with a blowgun and then tracked it down at dawn.
3And they've managed to keep out the seismologists and the oil workers with spears and blowguns.
submachine gun
/sˈʌbməʃˌiːn ɡˈʌn/
noun
an automatic gun that is not heavy and can be easily held and carried by hand

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to station
/ˈsteɪʃən/
verb
to send a person to a particular place in order to carry out a duty, particularly a military person
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1Pierre is at the railway station with his parents.
2This is station 38 reporting.
3Messy station slow things down.
4Caesar’s cavalry was stationed opposite Pompey’s.
5A Eurofighter squadron is stationed there.
magazine
/ˈmæɡəˌzin/
noun
the part of a gun containing its bullets
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1Circulation grew quickly, partly because of the magazine's lack of competition.
2Magazines went out of business.
3For example, magazines have lots of captions.
4Magazines even have chapters.
5Time magazine reported the story.
artillery
/ɑɹˈtɪɫɝi/
noun
big heavy guns that are attached on top of moving wheels or tracks
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1The Israeli military responded with artillery.
2Got some artillery in there, as well.
3Our artillery had a skirmish last night, in a swamp in the front.
4During combat, regimental artillery occupied this gap.
5At 1700 hours, French artillery started its bombardment.
nuclear deterrent
/nˈuːklɪɹ dɪtˈɜːɹəns/
noun
a nuclear weapon of a country that is very powerful and serves as a protection against other countries' attacks

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nerve agent
/nˈɜːv ˈeɪdʒənt/
noun
a poisonous chemical that is damaging to the nervous system and is used as a war weapon
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1He was arrested in JANUARY when he returned to RUSSIA from GERMANY where was recovering from Poisoning By a soviet-era Nerve Agent.
2Navalny was arrested just after returning from GERMANY, where he had been recuperating after being poisoned by a Nerve Agent.
3Suggests that he was exposed to Nerve Agent through UNDERWEAR.
nerve gas
/nˈɜːv ɡˈæs/
noun
a gas containing toxic chemicals that are damaging to a person's nerves, used as a war weapon

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roger
/ˈɹɑdʒɝ/
interjection
used as a confirmation message in radio communication to indicate that a message has been received and understood

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1Trainee: Come on, Roger.
2- Roger. - Put out.
3Roger, where are you?
4Roger, you got another one?
5And our first one comes from Roger.
ten-four
/tˈɛnfˈoːɹ/
interjection
a radio code used in two-way radio communication as an affirmative response or an indication of understanding

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