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Topic 1 : "Calming the Valley"
Topic 1 : "Calming the Valley"
- Valley - an area of low land between hills or mountains, often with a river running through it
- Commander - a person in authority, especially over a body of troops or a military operation
- Gunned somebody down - to shoot someone and kill or seriously injure them
- Mobilising - to prepare and organize group of people for a purpose
- Disaffected - dissatisfied
- Aftermath - the period that follows an unpleasant event or accident, and the effects that it causes
- Pitched battles - a large fight in which both sides stay in the same place
- Engulfed - to surround and cover something or someone completely
- Legend - someone very famous and admired, usually because of their ability in a particular area
- Coasted - move easily without using power
- Poster boy - famous person
- Homegrown - if something is homegrown, it belongs to or was developed in your own country
- Spectacularly - extremely
- Stone-pelting - to throw number of stones quickly at someone
- Protest - an occasion when people show that they disagree with something by standing somewhere, shouting, carrying signs, etc
- Paramilitary - paramilitary group is organized like an army but is not official and often not legal
- Evolved - develop gradually
- Lethal - very harmful or destructive (sufficient to cause death)
- Injured - hurt or physically harmed
- Casualties - people killed or injured in a war or accident
- Perceive - become aware or conscious of something / come to realize or understand
- Siege - the surrounding of a place by an armed force in order to defeat those defending it
- Imperative - crucial (very important)
- Disproportionate - too large or too small in comparison with something else
- Fuelling - to increase / make something stronger
- Impressionable - easily influenced
- Aggrieved - unhappy and angry because of unfair treatment
- Brute force - very strong or forceful / very harsh
- Dissuade - to convince someone not to do something
- Demonstrable - able to be proved
- Mourning - the expression of sorrow for someone's death
- Fallen - killed
- Spectrum - wide range
- Dispersed - distribute or spread over a wide area
- Pellets- bullets
- Mainstream - the ideas, attitudes, or activities that are shared by most people and regarded as normal
- Countered - speak or act in opposition to
- Fleshed out something - to add more details or information to something
- Eventually - in the end
- Illusion - a false idea or belief
- Restive - unwilling to be controlled or be patient
- Funeral - a religious ceremony for burying or burning the body of a dead person
- Mourners - people who are very sad about somebody's death
- Tournament - a competition for teams or single players in which a series of games is played, and the winners of each game play against each other until only one winner is left
- Underdog - in a competition, the person or team considered to be the weakest and the least likely to win
- Knockout - a competition in which only the winners of each stage play in the next stage, until one competitor or team is the final winner
- Triumph - a great victory or achievement
- Possess - to have or own something / to have a particular quality
- Resolve - strong determination
- Second to none - the best (as good as or better than all others)
- Dour - unhappy and very serious
- Denying - sto say that something is not true
- By the skin of your teeth - if you do something by the skin of your teeth, you only just succeed in doing it
- Undeniably - certainly true
- Sobbing - cry noisly
- Cement - to make something stronger
- Legacy - something that is a part of your history or that remains from an earlier time
- Soul-crushing - causing a person to lose confidence, hope, and energy; discouraging
- Heal - if a bad situation or painful emotion heals, it ends or improves, and if something heals it, it makes it end or improve
- Wounds - a problem or great unhappiness
- Hauntingly - in a way that cannot be forgotten
- Arena - a large, flat area surrounded by seats used for sports or entertainment
- Poignant - causing or having a very sharp feeling of sadness
- Detract from something - to make something seem less valuable or less deserving of admiration than it really is
- En route - on the way
- Massacre - an act of killing a lot of people
- Passionate - having very strong feelings or emotions
- Fervid - having or showing feelings that are very strong
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