TOEFL Vocabulary: Media Chapter One
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bklockhart Plus on April 14, 2008
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Chapter one vocabulary from the textbook about the media
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KISB 12th Grade, First Cerificate, Intermediate TOEFL Fall 2011, Intermediate iBT TOEFL Summer 2011, Intermediate iBT TOEFL, Intermediate TOEFL Fall 2010
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25 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 stare | look at with fixed eyes |
| despise | look down on with disdain |
| in tears | crying |
| plea | a humble request for help from someone in authority |
| besieged | surrounded |
| suspect | someone who is under suspicion |
| centennial | the 100th anniversary (or the celebration of it) |
| arrest | the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal) |
| charged | file a formal charge against |
| nightmare | a situation resembling a terrifying dream |
| clear someone's name | to officially declare the innocence of a suspect |
| spread the word | tell many people about some news |
| wrong-doing | activity that transgresses moral or civil law |
| tearful | showing sorrow |
| file a lawsuit | officially make a complaint in a court of law |
| sheriff | the principal law-enforcement officer in a county |
| deputy | an assistant with power to act when his superior is absent |
| hail | praise vociferously |
| debate | a discussion in which reasons are advanced for and against some proposition or proposal |
| suppress | control and refrain from showing |
| murderer | a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being) |
| convicted | find or declare guilty |
| privacy | the quality of being secluded from the presence or view of others |
| trained on | aimed or directed at |
| ordeal | a severe or trying experience |
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