On patrol with the marines

vocabulary revision

WARNING many lists are of dubious usefulness. Vocabulary should be learnt in context. What follows is just a quick revision list and is no substitute for careful dictionary work and your own notetaking.

Match the key words with their definitions:

1. marines
2. correspondent
3. absurd
4. bluntly
5. alliance
6. add up
7. pull up
8. slang
9. ambush
10. landmine
11. patrol
12. mist
13. hay
14. goggles
15. press

a. crazy
b. different countries agreeing to fight together
c. soldiers from a part of the American army
d. very informal language
e. stop
f. make sense
g. directly and perhaps insensitively
h. bomb buried in the earth
i. fog
j. where you are trapped and attacked
k. cut, dry grass for animals
l. to go around an area to check it
m. newspapers
n. glasses, mask
o. journalist



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