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TOGY4W16 Terms
Term | Definition |
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Combat (military) | active, armed fighting with enemy forces |
Front lines | the foremost lines or part of an army; the place where combat operations are carried on |
Home front | the civilian area of a nation during a war, when its military is fighting abroad or far away. The term is used chiefly to emphasize that the entire nation is at war to build solidarity between civilians and troops |
Volunteer | someone who offers himself for a service or job; to do something willingly and without pay |
Weld | to join (metals) by applying heat, sometimes with pressure and sometimes with an intermediate or filler metal having a high melting point |
Allotment | the portion of pay that military personnel authorizes to be paid to another person, such as a dependent (eg , wife or child), or an institution (eg , an insurance company) |
Bunker | an underground fortification, often with a concrete projection above ground level for observation or gun placement |
Censor | an official who reads books, news reports, letters, or views other media in order to remove parts that are objectionable on moral, political, military, or other grounds |
Detonate | to cause to explode |
Imperialism | the policy or act of conquering foreign countries and thereby extending the rule of an empire over them, or of acquiring and keeping colonies |
Morale | emotional and mental condition, especially in the face of opposition or hardship |
Paratrooper | a soldier who attacks or lands in battle areas by parachuting from an airplane |
POW | an acronym for a prisoner of war (see Week 27) |
Rendezvous | 1) an agreement for a meeting of persons or an assembling of troops or ships; 2) the meeting itself; 3) the place designated for the meeting |