atrocity
/əˈtɹɑsəti/
nounan extremely brutal act, especially in war
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1. Atrocities were perpetrated on a massive scale, on both sides.
2. He called this new law an atrocity.
3. George Eliot committed atrocities with it that beggar description.
4. Atrocities are happening right now.
5. There were atrocities.
admiral
/ˈædmɝəɫ/
nounthe highest-ranking officer in a fleet
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1. Put on your admiral's hat.
2. Put on your admiral's hat.
3. The 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.
5. A Genoese admiral by the name of Andrea Doria had been marauding Ottoman holdings in the Peloponnese.
colonel
/ˈkɝnəɫ/
nouna 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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1. My name is Colonel.
2. A colonel is a rank in the military.
3. "Colonel!" called Benjamin shrilly.
4. The colonel is very vulnerable.
5. The colonel is a genius. -
general
/ˈdʒɛnɝəɫ/, /ˈdʒɛnɹəɫ/
nouna very high-ranking officer in the army, the US air force or the marines
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1. He raged at his generals, even reducing the stolid head of the army Zhukov to tears.
2. The Whigs always ran generals.
3. And generals have troops.
4. The key word here is general.
5. Also, generals ran their armies this way.
major
/ˈmeɪdʒɝ/
nouna middle-ranking officer in the armed forces
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1. Japanese companies also made major innovations in manufacturing that yielded low production costs and strong, consistent product quality.
2. In the past, they were a major stabilizing force during downturns, but during the Great Recession, they became a big drag because of this.
3. Majors stars as Montgomery Allen, Fails' best friend.
4. Ten is major.
5. Twelve is major.
veteran
/ˈvɛtɝən/, /ˈvɛtɹən/
nouna former member of the armed forces who has fought in a war
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1. Veterans bring incredible skills and experiences to the business world.
2. At Travis Manion Foundation, veterans lead the way.
3. Because veterans get the preference.
4. Veterans that volunteer.
5. However, only 4 of his Legions were veterans.
to assassinate
/əˈsæsəˌneɪt/
verbto murder a prominent figure in a sudden attack for political purposes
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1. Was he assassinated?
2. In the city, his wife and daughter were assassinated in their home.
3. In 43 BC, one of Antipater’s own tax collectors assassinated him.
4. He was assassinated.
5. My father was assassinated.
to blast
/ˈbɫæst/
verbto violently damage or destroy something using explosives
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1. Blasting a hole in the space ship.
2. Modern hail cannons basically just blast a bunch of noise into the sky.
3. Storm troopers blast their way in.
4. American ships blast away from below.
5. The volcano blasts its top off.
to blow up
/blˈoʊ ˈʌp/
verbto cause something to burst or explode
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1. Now blow up a planet!
2. Blow up!
3. That thing blew up?
4. A creeper blew up his house in two seconds.
5. This testimony blew up the whole narrative of the case.
to bombard
/bɑmˈbɑɹd/
verbto drop bombs on someone or something continuously
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1. And it bombarded the audience with information.
2. So I'm not necessarily bombarding people with heavy promotion about my youtube video.
3. The same year, a rainfall of hundreds of fish bombarded residents of Lajamanu, Australia, 326 miles from the nearest river.
4. Can you bombard people too much?
5. Can Milky Way candy bars bombard me too much?
to charge
/ˈtʃɑɹdʒ/
verbto attack violently and suddenly in a battle
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1. His attorney called the charges wholly without merit.
2. This vehicle here is charging the pedestrian on the left-hand turn, automatic fail.
3. Television, print, radio, outdoor billboards charge you.
4. Took charge.
5. Charge your phone.
to conquer
/ˈkɑŋkɝ/
verbto gain control of a place or people using armed forces
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1. Conquered a fear!
2. - Total bummer, six hours, we only conquered two planets.
3. Conquer that mountain!
4. All diseases were conquered.
5. Technology has conquered death.
to deploy
/dɪˈpɫɔɪ/
verbto position soldiers or equipment for military action
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1. Police, in turn, deployed water cannons.
2. Parliament's only response, to deploy even more security forces.
3. The police deployed tough tactics against the predominantly young male protesters.
4. In 2018, activists deployed the most capital ever.
5. People deploy things like luck.
to evacuate
/iˈvækjəˌeɪt/, /ɪˈvækjəˌeɪt/
verb(of armed forces) to empty a dangerous place
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1. The bladder evacuated one or two drams of urine.
2. The carrier, Phoenix Air, often evacuates Ebola patients.
3. Thirty thousand people were evacuated.
4. The U.S government belatedly evacuated people from the islands.
5. Evacuate! -
to execute
/ˈɛksəkˌjut/
verbto kill someone, especially as a legal penalty
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1. More specifically, executing his uncle.
2. Ditching is purposely executed landing on water.
3. Execute your prime function.
4. GreenSky's platform executes the entire transaction cycle of credit arrangement.
5. Every 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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1. The French army’s 280,000 troops were mobilized.
2. He mobilized tens of thousands of his supporters.
3. They mobilized their forces.
4. They mobilized their forces.
5. But compassion, the generation of compassion, actually mobilizes our immunity.
to surrender
/sɝˈɛndɝ/
verbto give in or stop fighting against an enemy
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1. In July 1191, the town surrendered.
2. Step six is surrender.
3. - Surrender my boat?
4. Surrender makes sense.
5. You 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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1. The man retreats inside.
2. UN forces retreated back to the Ch'ongch'on River.
3. General Sherman and General McClernand’s troops retreated behind Shiloh Church.
4. The Crusader right retreated in disarray.
5. The ex-umbrella man retreated.
guerrilla
/ɡɝˈɪɫə/
nouna person who participates in irregular fighting as a member of an unofficial military group
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1. He disliked guerrilla warfare.
2. Now, you have this guerrilla movement.
3. But the guerrillas continued.
4. So what, your actors studied guerrilla theater at the London Rep?
5. We've included guerrilla warriors.
militia
/məˈɫɪʃə/, /mɪˈɫɪʃə/
nouna military group consisting of civilians who have been trained as soldiers to help the army in emergencies
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1. The media will paint militia groups as anti-government.
2. In July, 1850, government troops attacked a God Worshippers’ militia.
3. But Kurdish militias successfully fought back.
4. We no longer had militias.
5. And the militias are still there.
militant
/ˈmɪɫətənt/
adjectivedisplaying violent acts for the sake of a social or political aim
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1. Islamist militant groups are finding success in other ungoverned spaces as well.
2. You have black militants, certainly.
3. These young militants undertake a war on bourgeois specialists.
4. Also that year, Islamist militants killed 147 people at a university in northern Kenya.
5. Palestinian militants sometimes fire rockets at fnearby Israeli towns and cities.
naval
/ˈneɪvəɫ/
adjectiverelating or belonging to a navy
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1. - All right, launching the naval blockade.
2. Historically, naval power equaled power.
3. Most intelligence was naval intelligence, army intelligence and state department intelligence.
4. They had a naval battle.
5. They gave naval support.
civilian
/səˈvɪɫjən/
adjectiverelating to a person who is not a part of the armed forces
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1. Taliban fighters often use civilians as shields against American airstrikes.
2. He hated civilians.
3. It hit civilians.
4. Ninety percent of modern war casualties are civilians.
5. Protecting civilians.
defensive
/dɪˈfɛnsɪv/
adjectivedesigned or used in a way that provides a person or thing with protection against attack
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1. Defensive designs can deter crime.
2. We're defensive.
3. His strategic goals, therefore, were entirely defensive.
4. So, trenches are defensive weapons.
5. So what is defensive driving?
explosive
/ɪksˈpɫoʊsɪv/
adjectivecapable of exploding and likely to explode
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1. An improvised explosive device has been found at the Capitol.
2. Meanwhile, China's megacities have seen explosive growth in the last few decades.
3. The effects were explosive.
4. Anyhow, polyacetylenes are explosive.
5. Explosive down the right hand side.
A-bomb
/ˈeɪbˈɑːm/
nouna nuclear weapon with great destruction power which is released due to the fission of heavy atoms
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1. And 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.'
2. On 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.
3. So 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.
4. Well 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.
5. You can just see a lot more radiation exposure during the a-bomb test than either Chernobyl or Fukushima.
rifle
/ˈɹaɪfəɫ/
nouna long gun suitable for shooting a target over long distances, which is held along shoulder while aiming the target
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1. Just grab any rifle.
2. Just grab any rifle!
3. Rifles like the HK416 or the M16 weigh at least 7 pounds unloaded.
4. Each man carried a rifle.
5. One of the kids has got his rifle.
fleet
/ˈfɫit/
nouna group of ships under the command of one high-ranking officer
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1. Members of the royal family also use his fleet.
2. The fleet eventually reached the offshore island of Bonacca, a few miles from Honduras.
3. These fleets will actually bring their vehicles back to the yard.
4. Grounded the fleet for three months.
5. More explosions rock the fleet, though this time, not from mines.
raid
/ˈɹeɪd/
nouna surprise attack against a place or a group of people
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1. In April of 2018, the police raided the home of Joseph James DeAngelo.
2. But the police raided the bars all the time.
3. What are raids?
4. He raided the studio.
5. In 1966, federal agents from the Food and Drug Administration raided a small national food store in Boston, Erewhon.
curfew
/ˈkɝfju/
nounan order or law that prohibits people from going outside after a specific time, particularly at night
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1. First these kids imposed a curfew.
2. Curfews are for chumps!
3. A curfew is still a possibility.
4. You have curfew.
5. - I broke curfew.
hostage
/ˈhɑstɪdʒ/
nounsomeone 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?"
2. A child and a room service waiter were taken hostage by the boy’s disturbed father.
3. He wants hostages.
4. The hostages came home.
5. They take her kids hostage
torture
/ˈtɔɹtʃɝ/
nounthe act of making someone suffer very much so that they do something particular or give crucial information regarding something specific
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1. The hangman then applied torture at the direction of a council of examiners.
2. No one said torture.
3. His jailers tortured prisoners to death.
4. Any police in any country of the world is torturing innocent people.
5. Torturing the whammy bar.
occupation
/ˌɑkjəˈpeɪʃən/
nounthe act of invading and controlling a country, city, etc.
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1. This occupation displaced hundreds of thousands of azeris from their homes.
2. That occupation produced thousands of dead torture refugees.
3. Mail-related occupations typically require a high school diploma.
4. Has a clearly envious person ever put down your occupation?
5. What's your occupation?
trench
/ˈtɹɛntʃ/
nouna long narrow hole dug in the ground in which soldiers move and are protected from enemy fire
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1. Far from these ridges, at the edges of continents, researchers also found huge trenches.
2. Some people even dig new trenches here.
3. All right, our trenches are dug.
4. So, trenches are defensive weapons.
5. Dig a trench through the center of both halves with your fingers.
truce
/ˈtɹus/
nounan 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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1. Gangs could have truces.
2. Life on the savannah offers no truces.
3. Life on the savannah offers no truces.
4. Life on the savannah offers no truces.
5. Truce on that.
to arm
/ˈɑɹm/
verbto equip and supply with weapons
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1. The brain not only gives signals to the missing arm, it receives them as well.
2. The jogger puts his hand on the old woman’s arm.
3. Across Guangxi, Hong’s followers took up arms.
4. Extend arms straight out from shoulders.
5. Arm wrestle your father.
warfare
/ˈwɔɹˌfɛɹ/
nouninvolvement in war, particularly using certain methods or weapons
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1. Every society throughout history, almost up to including the current day, practices warfare.
2. He disliked guerrilla warfare.
3. For the Greeks, warfare was the supreme statement of a citizen.
4. Maya warfare worked differently than that of Eurasia.
5. One of the more surprising ones was actually warfare.
machine gun
/məʃˈiːn ɡˈʌn/
nouna gun that automatically and rapidly fires a succession of bullets upon pressing the trigger
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1. I 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.
2. I 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.
3. According 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/
nounthe action of transferring people or being transferred to somewhere else to be safe from a dangerous situation
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1. On the 28th of April the British commander in Trondheim, General Paget, ordered an evacuation.
2. People would practice evacuations.
3. The governor has implemented a mandatory evacuation.
4. Yah, the government set up evacuation centers in a few hours?
5. Massive earrings or bracelet can slow down evacuation.
command
/kəˈmænd/
nounan order, particularly given by someone in a position of authority
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1. His gestures command attention.
2. Your eyes command attention.
3. Your smile commands attention, your voi-- like, everything about you.
4. The Chief Justice's position commanded four votes.
5. Throughout 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.
2. This is more like going AWOL.
3. Some however go AWOL with the intention to leave the military permanently.
4. You 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/
adjectivebuilt in a way that does not let through any bullets or shrapnel
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1. The windows of Hevrin’s car were bulletproof.
2. This girl's school bus has bulletproof glass.
3. That application is bulletproof.
4. Introducing the bulletproof Popemobile.
5. The fabric is bulletproofed with lightweight carbon nanotubes, custom-tailored into a suit for your specifications.
ground zero
/ɡɹˈaʊnd zˈiəɹoʊ/
nounthe exact location of a nuclear explosion
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1. Washington state served as Ground Zero as the spending-averse GOP saw more House victories here than in anywhere else in the country.
2. I took this down to Ground Zero, and knocked my way through crowds for an hour.
3. In the midst of the wreckage at Ground Zero, I had a realization.
4. If they did, it probably was right there at Ground Zero.
5. Besides, they weren't even letting people into Ground Zero at the time.
gunner
/ˈɡənɝ/
nouna member of an armed force who is specifically trained to fire large guns
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1. -Who's the gunner?
2. The gunner is responsible for the exchange of fire.
3. Okay, sight gunner, swing the tower to the right.
4. Gunners are very vocal.
5. The gunner was throwing candy.
blowgun
/ˈbɫoʊˌɡən/
nouna tube-like weapon through which an arrow is shot if someone breathes in it forcefully
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1. For their ranged weapons the Maya used blowguns, javelins, slings, and a weapon imported from the Mexican highlands, the atlatl or spear thrower.
2. We shot it with a blowgun and then tracked it down at dawn.
3. And they've managed to keep out the seismologists and the oil workers with spears and blowguns.
submachine gun
/sˈʌbməʃˌiːn ɡˈʌn/
nounan automatic gun that is not heavy and can be easily held and carried by hand
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to station
/ˈsteɪʃən/
verbto send a person to a particular place in order to carry out a duty, particularly a military person
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1. Pierre is at the railway station with his parents.
2. This is station 38 reporting.
3. Messy station slow things down.
4. Caesar’s cavalry was stationed opposite Pompey’s.
5. A Eurofighter squadron is stationed there.
magazine
/ˈmæɡəˌzin/
nounthe part of a gun containing its bullets
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1. Circulation grew quickly, partly because of the magazine's lack of competition.
2. Magazines went out of business.
3. For example, magazines have lots of captions.
4. Magazines even have chapters.
5. Time magazine reported the story.
artillery
/ɑɹˈtɪɫɝi/
nounbig heavy guns that are attached on top of moving wheels or tracks
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1. The Israeli military responded with artillery.
2. Got some artillery in there, as well.
3. Our artillery had a skirmish last night, in a swamp in the front.
4. During combat, regimental artillery occupied this gap.
5. At 1700 hours, French artillery started its bombardment.
nuclear deterrent
/nˈuːklɪɹ dɪtˈɜːɹəns/
nouna 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/
nouna poisonous chemical that is damaging to the nervous system and is used as a war weapon
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1. He was arrested in JANUARY when he returned to RUSSIA from GERMANY where was recovering from Poisoning By a soviet-era Nerve Agent.
2. Navalny was arrested just after returning from GERMANY, where he had been recuperating after being poisoned by a Nerve Agent.
3. Suggests that he was exposed to Nerve Agent through UNDERWEAR.
nerve gas
/nˈɜːv ɡˈæs/
nouna gas containing toxic chemicals that are damaging to a person's nerves, used as a war weapon
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roger
/ˈɹɑdʒɝ/
interjectionused as a confirmation message in radio communication to indicate that a message has been received and understood
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1. Trainee: Come on, Roger.
2. - Roger. - Put out.
3. Roger, where are you?
4. Roger, you got another one?
5. And our first one comes from Roger.
ten-four
/tˈɛnfˈoːɹ/
interjectiona radio code used in two-way radio communication as an affirmative response or an indication of understanding
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