Review of Military Vocabulary

to control an area

• assume command

• take down

• give up

• provide support

the continuous line forming the boundary of a closed geometrical figure

• political map

• perimeter

• physical map

• interest map

a long, narrow ditch

• body of water

• entrapment

• trench

• landform

wire with clusters of short, sharp spikes set at short intervals along it, used to make fences or in warfare as an obstruction.

• plastic wire

• electrical wire

• palisade

• razor wire

an expedition to keep watch over an area, especially by guards or police walking or driving around at regular intervals.

• foreman

• overseer

• patrol

• supervisor

a reinforced underground shelter, typically for use in wartime.

• safe

• hold

• ditch

• pit

reading rapidly in order to get a general overview of the material, generally the first and last sentence of a paragraph

• skimming

• searching

• scanning

• browsing

What is the following? self-contained underwater breathing apparatus.

• abbreviation

• acronym

• endonym

• initialism

A key feature of listening is to...

• listen rather hearing

• hear rather than listening

• remain open-minded

• concentrate

the state of being well known for some bad quality or deed.

• foreknowledge

• destroyed

• relieved

• infamy