Theme Korean War – June 25, 1950

Vocabulary Word List for Korean War – June 25, 1950 (579)

• A

  abandon, account, acid, action, advance, aerial, afloat, aggressor, agitator, aim, aircraft, airfield, airplane, alert, alliance, allies, ambush, ammunition, anarchy, anguish, annihilate, apartheid, appeasement, armament, armed forces, armory, arms, arsenal, artillery, ashore, assassin, assassinate, assault, atrocity, attack, attrition, authority, automatic

• B

  barrage, barricade, battalion, batter, battle, battlefield, bayonet, belligerent, betray, blast, blindside, blood(y), bloodletting, bomb, bombard(ment), booby trap, breach, brigade, brutal, brutality, bullet, bulletproof, bunker, burn, bury

• C

  cadaver, camouflage, campaign, cannon, captive, captive, capture, carbine, carcass, careen, cargo, carnage, carrier, casualties, cataclysm, caution(ary), cautious, chaos, charge, charred, checkpoint, chief, chopper, civilian, clandestine, clash, coalition, collapse, combat, combat, command, commander, commandos, compassion, compliance, concentration, conciliatory, concussion, conflagration, conflict, confrontation(al), confusion, conquer, conscript, conscription, consequences, consolidate, conspiracy, conspire, contact, control, convoy, coordinate, coordinates, corps, corpse, counterattack, countermand, counteroffensive, courageous, crisis, cross-hairs, culpability

• D

  damage, danger, dangerous, dash, dead, deadly, death, debacle, debris, decline, defect, defend, defense, defensive, demolish, demoralization, deploy, desertion, despot, destroy, destruction, detect, detection, detente, devastation, device, dictator, die, disarmament, disarray, disaster, disastrous, discipline, disease, dismantle, dispatch, disperse, dispute, disruption, dissonance, dominate, doomed, downfall, drama, dread, drone, duck, duty

• E

  elite, encounter, endurance, enemy, enforcement, engagement, enlist, epithet, escalation, escape, espionage, evacuate, evacuee, excess, execute, execution, exercise, expectations, explode, exploitation, explosion, explosive, expunge, extremism

• F

  faction, fanatic, fatal, fear, fearless, ferment, ferocious, feud, fierce, fiery, fight, fighter, flank, flee, flight, force(s), forceful, fortification, foxhole, fray, frenzy, fright, front lines, fuel, fugitive, furtive, fusillade

• G

  garrison, gas, generator, genocide, germ warfare, gore, government, grave, grenade, grievous, groans, guard, guerrilla, guided bombs, guns, gunship

• H

  hammering, harsh, hatch, hate, hatred, hazards, helicopter, hero(ic), heroism, hide, hijack, hijacker, hit, hit-and-run, holocaust, horses, hospitalize, hostility, howitzer

• I

  ignite, impact, improvise, incident, incite, incontrovertible, infantry, inferred, infiltrate, inflame, informant, injuries, instructions, insurgent, insurrection, intelligence, intense, intercept, interdiction, international, interrogation, intervene, intimidate, invasion, investigate, investigations, involvement, ire

• J

  jeer, jets, join

• K

  keening, kidnap, kill, knives, knock-out

• L

  lamentation, land mines, laser-activated, launch, launcher, legacy, liaison, liberate, liberation, liberators, loathsome, loyalty

• M

  macabre, machine guns, machines, maim, malevolent, malicious, marauding, march, massacre, mayhem, megalomania, menacing, militancy, militant, militaristic, military, militia, mines, missile, mission, mistreatment, mobile, mobilization, momentum, mortars, munitions, murder, muscle, musket, mustard gas

• N

  nationalist, negotiation, neutralize, nightmare, nitrate, notorious

• O

  offensive, officer, officials, onerous, operation, opposition, options, order, outbreak, overrun, overthrow

• P

  pacify, paramedics, partisan, patriot, patriotism, patrol, peacekeeping, penetration, performance, persecute, petrify, photos, pilot, pistol, planes, platoon, plunder, position, post-traumatic, potent, pounds, powder, power, powerful, preemptive, premeditated, prey, prison, prisoner, proliferation, provocation, prowl, pugnacious, pulverize

• Q

  quail, quarrel, queasy, quell, quest, questions, quiver

• R

  radiation, radical, rage, rally, ravage, ravish, readiness, rebel, rebellion, reconnaissance, recovery, recruitment, reform, refugee, regime, regiment, reinforcements, relentless, reparation, reprisal, reputation, rescue, resistance, retaliation, retreat, retribution, revenge, revolution, ricochet, rifle, rift, rival, rocket, rot, rounds, rule, ruthless(ness)

• S

  sabotage, sacrifice, salvage, sanction, savage, scare, score, scramble, secrecy, secret, security, sedition, seize, seizure, sensors, setback, shelling, shells, shock, shoot, shot, showdown, siege, skirmish, slaughter, smuggle, soldier, special-ops, specialized, spokesman, spotter, spy, spy satellite, squad, stash, stealth, storage, storm, straggler, strangle, strategic, strategist, strategy, strife, strike, strip, stronghold, struggle, submarine, subversive, suffering, superstition, supplies, support, suppression, surprise, surrender, survival, survivor, suspect, sword

• T

  tactics, tank, target, tension, terrain, terror, terrorism, terrorist, terrorize, threaten, thwart, topple, torch, torpedo, tourniquet, tragic, training, trampling, transportation, trap, trauma, treachery, trench, trigger, triumph, turbulent

• U

  unbelievable, unconventional, uniform, unify, unit, unite, unleash, uprising, urgency

• V

  valiant, valor, vanguard, vanish, vehicle, vehicular, vendetta, venomous, versatile, veteran, vicious, victory, vile, vilify, violation, violence, virulence, vision, visionary, vital, vitriol, vociferous, void, vow, vulnerability

• W

  wage, war, warheads, warplane, warrant, warrior, watchdog, watchful, weapon, well-trained, whiz, wince, wisdom, worldwide, wounds, wreckage

• X

  x-ray

• Y

  yearn, yelling

• Z

  zealot, zeppelin, zigzag, zone

• R

  Red Cross