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Hunting for a Killer | National Geographic

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latvia

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  • noun
  • A republic in northeastern Europe on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea

thousand

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US / ˈθaʊznd /

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  • number
  • Number 1,000

snatch

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US / snætʃ /

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  • verb
  • To take something quickly or eagerly

mission

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  • noun
  • A task or role someone is given to do
  • Special assignment given to a person or group
  • Group tasked with a specific duty
  • A task given to someone to gain or achieve
  • Religious group wishing to convert others
  • Housing for a religious group working overseas
  • Religious or charitable task in a foreign country

population

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  • noun
  • Number of people who live in a country, area etc.

immediately

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  • adverb
  • Without any delay; straight away

burn

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  • noun
  • Damage from fire or heat
  • verb
  • To destroy with fire
  • To feel pain and heat
  • To use as fuel for a fire to make light or heat
  • To overcook food with too much heat it goes black

after

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  • adverb
  • Later than another time, or behind something
  • conjunction
  • Following something before
  • preposition
  • When an event happened or time has passed

agent

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  • noun
  • Chemical with the power to make chemical reactions
  • Person who represents or decides for others
  • A spy; someone who spies on other countries

someone

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  • pronoun
  • Person who is not known or named

hear

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  • verb
  • To be aware of sound; to perceive with the ear
  • To be told or find out information or facts
  • To consider or listen to a court case

anton

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with

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  • preposition
  • As an employee of a certain company
  • Against something or someone
  • By using something as a means
  • Due to; because of
  • Including
  • Possessing as a feature
  • Related to
  • (Of the manner/attitude by which you do something)
  • Used to express that people or things are together

history

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  • noun
  • Established pattern or record
  • Study of past events as an academic subject

unit

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  • noun
  • One apartment in a building
  • Group of people, e.g. soldiers, that work together
  • A chapter of a textbook
  • A standard of measurement of something
  • Single item made by a company

see

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  • verb
  • To go on a date with someone
  • To predict whether something is, or will be true
  • To understand what someone says
  • To use your eyes to look at something
  • To visit a place often for sightseeing or pleasure
  • To visit or meet with someone
  • To find out by waiting or looking
  • To watch (a game, movie or TV show)

world

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  • noun
  • All the humans, events, activities on the earth
  • Political division due to some kind of similarity

have

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  • verb
  • To drink, smoke, eat or use something
  • To experience the effects of something
  • To organize an event, or join in an activity
  • To own, possess, or hold something
  • To cause to happen or produce a particular effect

before

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  • adverb
  • At a time earlier than the present; previously
  • conjunction
  • In advance of something happening
  • preposition
  • In front of someone or something

innocent

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  • adjecitve
  • Free from guilt or responsibility for a crime
  • (Accidentally being harmed) without deserving it
  • Lacking experience of the world; naive
  • noun
  • Person with little experience of the world

vile

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  • adjecitve
  • Being very bad or unpleasant; disgusting

his

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  • pronoun
  • Something belonging to a male person

air

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  • noun
  • Mixture of gases around the earth that we breathe
  • A person's manner intended to impress others
  • verb
  • To expose to the outside, to dry or freshen
  • To broadcast a TV or radio show
  • To open a subject to discussion and debate

know

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  • verb
  • To be familiar with a person or place, thing
  • To feel sure or be convinced about something
  • To discover or be aware of something
  • To be able to distinguish
  • To have knowledge of things

most

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  • adverb
  • Very; extremely
  • Greatest possible degree
  • pronoun
  • Nearly all of something

latvian

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  • adjecitve
  • Concerning the culture and people of Latvia
  • noun
  • Person from Latvia

call

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  • noun
  • A order or request for action
  • The sound an animal makes, often when in danger
  • A correct prediction, e.g. a decision in a game
  • A short visit to a place or person
  • A decision by a referee or umpire in a game
  • verb
  • To make a request or order for action
  • (Animal) to make sounds to warn of danger
  • To announce the date of an election
  • To make a judgment about something
  • To give someone or something a name
  • To guess in advance the result or outcome
  • To visit a place or person for a short time
  • To phone someone
  • To speak, announce or shout in a loud voice

keep

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  • noun
  • Large, strong tower in the middle of a castle
  • Money spent on you so you can live in a place
  • verb
  • To continue doing something; not to stop
  • To stop balls going in a goal in sports
  • To not give back or return something
  • (Of food) to not spoil or not rot
  • To take possession of something to own, e.g. a pet
  • To have and continue to hold something
  • To do something that you have promised or agreed
  • To stay in a certain place or condition
  • To maintain the rules

invade

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  • verb
  • To enter something causing a harmful result

photo

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  • noun
  • Short for photograph; a picture taken by a camera

secret

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  • adjecitve
  • That you don't want others to know; private
  • noun
  • Information you do not want others to know

quietly

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  • adverb
  • In a quiet manner; making little sound or fuss

and

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  • conjunction
  • Used to refer to two or more things
  • Plus; in addition; on top of that
  • Used to introduce an action that follows another

from

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  • preposition
  • Starting at a particular place, time or level

anybody

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  • pronoun
  • Any person; anyone

lot

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  • noun
  • What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
  • A group of people seen together
  • Item for sale at an auction
  • Small area of land used for a purpose e.g. parking

come

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  • verb
  • To arrive at a place
  • (Of mail) to be delivered
  • To move toward someone; go with someone
  • To reach a certain point or state

out

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  • adverb
  • No longer stylish (e.g. fashion)
  • Away from home, business, or the usual place
  • In a direction/movement away from inside or center
  • noun
  • Act when a batter cannot continue playing
  • verb
  • To tell people a secret

think

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  • verb
  • To have an idea about something without certainty
  • To have an idea, opinion or belief about something

riga

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  • proper noun
  • A port on the Baltic Sea, capital of Latvia; population 722,000 (est. 2007).

name

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  • noun
  • What something or someone is called
  • verb
  • To state what someone is called, e.g. John

join

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  • verb
  • To bring something close to another, to become one
  • To become a member of
  • To participate in an activity with others

sao

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man

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  • noun
  • Humans in general, including male and female
  • An adult male human being
  • Male who acts in a masculine way; not like a woman
  • verb
  • To control or operate (a machine); be in charge of
  • To operate a machine (a boat, etc.)

let

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  • verb
  • To allow someone to do something
  • Introducing a suggestion to do something together
  • To rent a house, etc. to others

follow

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  • verb
  • To come after someone; be guided by someone
  • To support someone, e.g. singer or comedian
  • To be the logical result of something
  • To happen after something else happens
  • To believe a set of values or a moral teacher
  • To understand something happening or being said

run

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  • noun
  • Journey between two places made by ship or car
  • Series of similar things or successes and failures
  • Act of running; exercise of running
  • verb
  • To depart or travel according to a schedule
  • To cause an animal to move in a certain direction
  • (Of an engine) to be operating
  • To start or use a computer program
  • To flow in a certain direction, like a liquid
  • To manage or operate a business
  • To operate or drive something
  • (Of a road) to go from one place to another
  • To move your legs faster than walking

the

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  • article
  • Used to refer to something already mentioned
  • Used to show there is only one of something
  • determiner
  • Used to describe all of a family

order

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  • noun
  • Religious or social group, as of nuns
  • Instructions to others to do what you want
  • State in which things are neat and organized
  • What you ask to buy, e.g. food in restaurant
  • Social or political control of an area
  • verb
  • To put things in a sequence, e.g. a, b, c
  • To give instructions to others to do what you want
  • To ask for something you want to buy, e.g. a meal

parent

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  • noun
  • Person's, animal's mother or father
  • Something creating other things of the same kind

summer

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  • noun
  • Part of the year when the weather is hot
  • verb
  • To spend time in a place in the warm months

hangman

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  • noun
  • Executioner who hangs the condemned person

live

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  • adjecitve
  • Being broadcast as events happen, not recorded
  • Carrying electric current; able to give a shock
  • Glowing because burning; hot
  • Not yet killed (for food)
  • adverb
  • (Music, drama) as it is performed
  • verb
  • To be alive
  • To experience a particular type of life
  • To make your home in a house or town

nazi

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  • noun
  • Relating to or consistent with or typical of the ideology and practice of Nazism or the Nazis

testimony

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  • noun
  • Public statement of personal religious experiences
  • Statement of evidence in court

you

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  • pronoun
  • Person someone is speaking or writing to
  • Person or people in general

dare

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  • noun
  • A dangerous or risky act people are afraid to do
  • verb
  • To challenge someone to do something that is risky
  • To have enough courage to do something

arm

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  • noun
  • Part of your body from your shoulder to your hand
  • A branch of another object e.g. company
  • The side part of a chair where your arms go
  • The influence or power an authority has
  • verb
  • To activate a weapon or bomb for use
  • To give a gun or other weapon to a person or group

one

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  • pronoun
  • You; we; people in general; someone
  • The thing or person previously referred to
  • adjecitve
  • Used to refer to people generally
  • Being a strong example of (something mentioned)
  • number
  • Number 1

woman

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  • noun
  • Adult female human being

capital

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  • adjecitve
  • Main, or major
  • noun
  • Writing the first letter of a word in big letters
  • Official main city of a country, province or state
  • Collective name for money, shares, and assets
  • Money that is used for a business

for

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  • preposition
  • Used to show the purpose, or need of something

paulo

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hunt

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  • noun
  • A search for animals to kill for food
  • Person's name
  • verb
  • To search for wild animals to kill (for food)
  • To look for very carefully; search for

special

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  • adjecitve
  • Being additional or extra
  • Different, better or greater than normal
  • noun
  • Heavily discounted sales item

extermination

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  • noun
  • Act of killing an entire group of animals, insects

kill

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  • noun
  • Animal killed by a person or other animal
  • verb
  • To cause someone to experience a lot of pain
  • To end the life of a person or other living thing
  • To be very funny
  • To prevent something from continuing or operating
  • To do something unimportant to pass time quickly

responsible

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  • adjecitve
  • Being the cause of something that has occurred
  • Having the duty of dealing with something
  • Able to be trusted to do what needs to be done

crime

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  • noun
  • Act that is believed to be a mistake or foolish
  • Act that is against the law; murder, theft etc.

commander

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  • noun
  • Person with authority who commands or controls

within

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  • adverb
  • Inside the limits of an area, time or range
  • preposition
  • From the inside of something

die

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  • noun
  • Cube with dots numbering 1-6 on it used in games
  • verb
  • To cease to function or work
  • (Of a thing) to stop being used or done
  • (Of a person) to stop living

brazil

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  • noun
  • Largest Latin American country and Largest Portuguese speaking country in the world; located in the

jew

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  • noun
  • One of a people whose religion is Judaism

send

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  • verb
  • To cause to behave or respond in a particular way
  • To cause mail or packages to go to another place
  • To move something quickly in a particular way
  • To give information or greetings to someone

mother

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  • noun
  • Female who has a child or children; female parent
  • verb
  • To take care of someone as if they were your child

child

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  • noun
  • A very young person, between about 2 and 15

jewish

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  • adjecitve

south

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  • adjecitve
  • Direction to your right when facing the rising sun
  • Coming from the opposite direction from north
  • noun
  • The direction to your right of the rising sun

september

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  • noun
  • 9th month of the year

involve

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  • verb
  • To have or be included as a part of something

peaceful

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  • adjecitve
  • In a calm and quiet state
  • Being unlikely or unwilling to act violently

but

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  • conjunction
  • Used before you say something different, opposite

halfway

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  • adverb
  • A middle point between two extremes

photograph

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  • noun
  • Picture taken with a camera
  • verb
  • To take a picture with a camera

life

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  • noun
  • All the living things e.g. animals, plants, humans
  • Period of time things live, from birth to death

archive

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  • noun
  • Collection of historical records and materials
  • verb
  • To store things such as historical records

want

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  • noun
  • Something you desire or wish for
  • State or condition of poverty
  • verb
  • To desire or wish for something; hope for a thing

war

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  • noun
  • Situation where armies fight each other

not

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  • adverb
  • Word indicating the negative
  • (Used to form the negative of verbs)

very

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  • adjecitve
  • Concerning a large degree or amount
  • adverb
  • A lot; much; many
  • Used to stress or emphasize a noun

officer

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  • noun
  • Person of high position in an organization
  • Person of high position in the military

america

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  • noun
  • The United States of America; North America and/or South America

personally

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  • adverb
  • By a specific person, and not by anyone else
  • Knowing someone as a friend, or closely

holocaust

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  • noun
  • Act of mass destruction and loss of life in a war

both

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  • determiner
  • Used to refer to two things at the same time
  • pronoun
  • Used to refer to two things at the same time

department

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  • noun
  • Division of a larger part or organization

agree

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  • verb
  • To have the same opinion as someone else

who

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  • pronoun
  • Which person
  • Used to introduce information about people

change

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  • noun
  • Exchange of one set of clothes for another
  • Money in the form of coins instead of paper
  • Money returned after giving too much
  • Act of making or becoming something else
  • verb
  • To exchange one set of clothes for another
  • To exchange one kind of money for another
  • To replace something with another thing
  • To make or become something else
  • To go from one train, bus, etc. and go to another

cutthroats

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  • other
  • Ruthless in competitions

they

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  • pronoun
  • Two or more people, animals, or things

travel

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  • noun
  • Going to other places, esp. distant places
  • verb
  • To go to a place that is far away

operational

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  • adjecitve
  • Being in working condition and ready to be used
  • Working; able to function

all

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US / ɔ:l /

UK / ɔl /

A1
  • adverb
  • Completely; totally
  • determiner
  • Being every one of something
  • pronoun
  • 100% of something; the complete amount

gang

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US / ɡæŋ /

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B1
  • noun
  • Group that you disapprove of, e.g. criminals
  • verb
  • To gather together to do something (often illegal)

force

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US / fɔ:s /

UK / fɔrs, fors /

A1
  • noun
  • Group of persons trained for military action; army
  • Pressure; attraction
  • The use of physical strength/violence to persuade
  • verb
  • To use physical strength or violence to persuade

baby

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US / ˈbeɪbi /

UK / ˈbeɪbi /

A2
  • adjecitve
  • Small in size; smaller than usual
  • noun
  • A very young child, who cannot yet speak
  • verb
  • To treat someone as if they were newly born

about

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US / ə'baʊt /

UK / əˈbaʊt /

A1
  • adverb
  • To be ready to; going to
  • Nearly; approximately; roughly
  • Near; next to; close to
  • In every direction; in the area of
  • preposition
  • Concerning or of (a topic)

tell

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US / tel /

UK / tɛl /

A1
  • verb
  • To (strongly) advise a person to do something
  • To be able to guess
  • To say or communicate information to someone
  • To inform, but without speaking; indicate
  • To have a negative effect on someone
  • To order someone to do something; command
  • To recognize something based on certain signs
  • To report something to an authority
  • To explain something or teach someone something

kick

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US / kɪk /

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A2
  • noun
  • Feeling of enjoyment or excitement
  • verb
  • To hit or move something with the foot

murderer

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US / 'mɜ:dərə(r) /

UK / ˈmə:rdərɚ /

A2
  • noun
  • Criminal who intentionally kills someone

people

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US / 'pi:pl /

UK / ˈpipəl /

A1
  • noun
  • Persons sharing culture, country, background, etc.
  • Men, Women, Children

cutthroat

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US / ˈkʌtθrəʊt /

UK / ˈkʌtˌθroʊt /

A1
  • adjecitve
  • Ruthless in competition

then

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US / ðen /

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  • adverb
  • A time that is not now
  • Following another thing in time or arrangement
  • Following on reasonably from what was just stated
  • At that time, not now

second

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US / 'sekənd /

UK / ˈsɛkənd /

A1
  • adjecitve
  • 2nd; the one following first
  • noun
  • Unit of time; one sixtieth of a minute
  • Short period of time that you wait for someone
  • (Do) soon

find

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US / faɪnd /

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  • noun
  • Object discovered by chance
  • Things that have been discovered from searching
  • verb
  • To become aware of something that is happening
  • To discover or meet by chance
  • To decide if someone is guilty of a crime, or not
  • To learn through study, research, or effort
  • To discover something by looking for it

that

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A1
  • adjecitve
  • The person or thing being talked about
  • Used to identify something both the speakers know
  • adverb
  • Used to reinforce adjectives and adverbs
  • To such a degree
  • conjunction
  • Used to connect a noun clause
  • Used to introduce an adverbial clause
  • Used to introduce a noun clause
  • determiner
  • Used as a noun to refer to something
  • pronoun
  • Referring an object far away
  • Used to refer to the relative pronoun ‘which’

synagogue

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US / 'sɪnəɡɒɡ /

UK / ˈsɪnəˌɡɑɡ,-ˌɡɔɡ /

C1
  • noun
  • Place of worship in the Jewish religion
  • Subtitles section
  • Summer, 1964, Brazil, Latvian Nazi Herbert Zuckers is living quietly in Sao Paulo.
  • For the man known as the Hangman of Riga, it is a peaceful life, but all that is about to change.
  • Zuckers was a photograph in Brazil by someone from the Jewish population.
  • They Have heard of him, and they know who he is.
  • Zuckers was involved in some of the most vile crimes of the Second World War.
  • Zuckers, together with the Latvian Nazis, killed thousands of innocent people, children and elder people and women.
  • And there's a lot of testimony, which I've read in archives from after the war, in which Zuckers, Zuckers, Zuckers, the name keeps coming up.
  • The photos of Zuckers travel halfway around the world, to a special Nazi hunting unit within Israel's Secret Service.
  • They kick off one of the most daring missions in the Mossad's history.
  • September 1st, 1964, a Mossad agent is called to a meeting in an operational department in Paris.
  • His commander tells him, we have a very special mission for you.
  • We want to send you to South America to find for us a Nazi called Zuckers.
  • He tells him, your name from today onward is Anton Künzle.
  • He told me that Zuckers was living in Brazil.
  • Zuckers was an officer in the Latvian Air Force before the war.
  • Mid-1941, Hitler invades Latvia.
  • Then Zuckers joins up with a gang of murderers and cutthroats.
  • They went around following Nazi orders to go and commit atrocities on the Jews in Riga, capital of Latvia.
  • They saw him personally snatching babies from the arms of the mothers and killing them.
  • They burned the synagogue with 300 people in it and didn't let anybody run out.
  • He told me that Zuckers was responsible for the extermination of 30,000 Latvian Jews.
  • Thinking of my parents, who both died in the Holocaust, I agreed immediately.