Terrorism Vocabulary

Terrorism

• a person who uses violence or threats to take control of a vehicle, especially a plane, in order to force it to travel to a different place or to demand something from a government.

• feeling that somebody has done something wrong, illegal or dishonest, without having any proof.

• the use of violent action in order to achieve political aims or to force a government to act/

• to take somebody away illegally and keep them as a prisoner, especially in order to get money or something else for returning them.

Terrorist

• a person who takes part in terrorism.Eg: The terrorists are threatening to blow up the plane.

• a person who beliefs in and support for ideas that are very far from what most people consider correct or reasonable.

Suspicious

• to take somebody away illegally and keep them as a prisoner, especially in order to get money or something else for returning them.

• feeling that somebody has done something wrong, illegal or dishonest, without having any proof.

Extremist

• a person who beliefs in and support for ideas that are very far from what most people consider correct or reasonable.

• a person who takes part in terrorism.Eg: The terrorists are threatening to blow up the plane.

Torture

• to make pain in order to punish other people or make them say or do something.

• The crime of killing somebody deliberately.

Kidnap

• to make pain in order to punish other people or make them say or do something.

• to take somebody away illegally and keep them as a prisoner, especially in order to get money or something else for returning them.

Hijack

• the crime of attacking somebody physically.

• a person who uses violence or threats to take control of a vehicle, especially a plane, in order to force it to travel to a different place or to demand something from a government.

Murder

• The crime of killing somebody deliberately.

• the crime of attacking somebody physically.

Assault

• the crime of attacking somebody physically.

• The crime of killing somebody deliberately.

Riot

• to take somebody away illegally and keep them as a prisoner, especially in order to get money or something else for returning them.

• a situation in which a group of people behave in a violent way in a public place, often as a protest.