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Global crises
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| aerial | in or from the air, especially from an aircraft |
| air force | the part of a country's military forces that uses aircraft and fights in the air |
| altitude | height above sea level |
| armed | using or carrying weapons |
| arms | weapons and equipment used to kill and injure people |
| army | a military force that has the training and equipment to fight on land |
| asylum | protection or safety, or a protected and safe place, given esp. to someone who has left a country or place for political reasons |
| asylum seeker | someone who leaves their own country, often for political reasons or because of war, and who travels to another country hoping that the government will protect them and allow them to live there |
| battalion | a military unit consisting of three or more companies |
| bomb | a weapon that explodes and is used to kill or hurt people or to damage buildings |
| citizenship | the state of being a member of a particular country and having rights because of it |
| civilian | a person who is not a member of the police or the armed forces |
| conflict | fighting between two or more groups of people or countries: |
| counterterrorism | action intended to prevent violence for political purposes |
| cover | shelter or protection in an unpleasant or dangerous situation |
| defense | the ability to protect against attack or harm, or something used to protect against attack or harm |
| deploy | move soldiers or equipment to a place where they can be used when they are needed |
| deportation | the action of forcing someone to leave a country, especially someone who has no legal right to be there or who has broken the law |
| drone | an aircraft that does not have a pilot but is controlled by someone on the ground, used especially for dropping bombs or for surveillance |
| emigration | the process of leaving a country permanently and going to live in another one |
| explode | break up into pieces violently, or cause something to do this |
| fighter jet | a fast jet-powered military aircraft designed for attacking other aircraft. |
| residence permit | an official document that allows you to live in a country that you were not born in |
| humanitarian crisis | an event or series of events that represents a critical threat to the health, safety, security or wellbeing of a community or other large group of people, usually over a wide area |
| immigration | the act of someone coming to live in a different country |
| migration | the process of people travelling to a new place to live, usually in large numbers |
| military | the armed forces |
| mine | a type of bomb put below the earth or in the sea that explodes when vehicles, ships, or people go over it |
| minor | someone who is too young to have the legal responsibilities of an adult |
| missile | a flying weapon that has its own engine so that it can travel a long distance before exploding at the place that it has been aimed at |
| Molotov cocktail | a bottle filled with petrol or other liquid fuel, with a piece of cloth in its top, that is set on fire and thrown |
| natural disaster | a natural event such as a flood, earthquake, or tsunami that kills or injures a lot of people |
| navigate | direct the way that a ship, aircraft, etc. will travel, or to find a direction across, along, or over an area of water or land, often by using a map |
| navy | the part of a country's armed forces that is trained to operate at sea |
| quota (resettled) refugee | a person who is registered as a refugee by the UNHCR, but who cannot be offered a permanent solution in the country they are currently in and who are therefore offered resettlement in a third country |
| reception centre | a place where people who have no homes or are being looked after by the government can live until somewhere else is found for them to live |
| refugee | a person who has escaped from their own country for political, religious, or economic reasons or because of a war |
| remotely | from a distance |
| repatriation | the act of sending or bringing someone back to the country that they came from |
| self-defense | protection of yourself, either by fighting or discussion |
| shatter | (cause something to) break suddenly into very small pieces |
| shelter | protection from bad weather, danger, or attack |
| surveillance | the careful watching of a person or place, especially by the police or army |
| tank | a large military fighting vehicle designed to protect those inside it from attack, driven by wheels that turn inside moving metal belts |
| target | any object or place at which bullets, bombs, etc. are aimed |
| terrorism | (threats of) violent action for political purposes |
| trafficking (in human beings) | the act of buying or selling people |
| unmanned | used to refer to a spacecraft, or a place where military guards work, that has no people present to operate or be in charge of it |
| vehicle | a machine, usually with wheels and an engine, used for transporting people or goods, especially on land: |
| voluntary return | the assisted or independent return to the country of origin, transit or third country, based on the free will of the returnee |
| weapon | any object used in fighting or war, such as a gun, bomb, knife, etc. |
| spouse | a person's husband or wife |
| guardian | a person who has the legal right and responsibility of taking care of someone who cannot take care of himself or herself |
| pursuant | according to |
| beneficiary | a person or group who receives money, advantages, etc. |
| household | a group of people, often a family, who live together |
| alien | someone who lives in a country of which they are not a legal citizen |
| domestic | relating to a person's own country |
| indigenous | used to refer to, or relating to, the people who originally lived in a place, rather than people who moved there from somewhere else |
| covert | hidden or secret |
| lethal | able to cause or causing death; extremely dangerous |
| reconnaisance | the process of getting information about enemy forces or positions by sending out small groups of soldiers or by using aircraft, etc. |
| trajectory | the curved path that an object follows after it has been thrown or shot into the air |
| refuge | (a place that gives) protection or shelter from danger, trouble, unhappiness, etc. |
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