Nightmare in a minefield

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. veteran
2. spit
3. infantry
4. objective
5. seize
6. corrosive
7. pipe
8. bare
9. on the blink
10. goggles
11. vast
12. keep your head
13. crush

a. foot soldiers
b. someone with experience of war
c. aim, goal
d. burning, melting
e. to shoot saliva out of the mouth
f. naked
g. glasses, mask
h. destroy (like a beetle beneath a boot)
i. tube
j. to take control of
k. faulty, not working properly
l. not panic
m. very big, enormous



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