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English word |
English Definition |
English Example sentence |
| 1 |
to trust ~ |
to feel like what someone says or does is truthful |
I don't trust my friend anymore; he borrowed money from my many
times, but he never paid me back. |
| 2 |
to betray ~ |
to beak a promise you made to someone |
He betrayed me by telling my secret to everyone. |
| 3 |
to set up ~ |
to make it appear that someone else committed a crime |
Someone must have set me up. |
| 4 |
to seek payback |
to look for a way to get revenge against someone |
The crime victim's brother spent years seeking payback against
the attackers. |
| 5 |
to hold ~ for a ransom |
to keep a person trapped somewhere until a certain amount of
money is paid |
The criminals kidnapped the rich man's son and held him for a
ransom. |
| 6 |
to commit treason |
to break a promise you made to the government or the
military |
He committed treason by sharing technological secrets with the
Chinese. |
| 7 |
to hatch a plan |
to think of a plan |
They hatched a plan about how to escape from jail. |
| 8 |
to eliminate ~ |
to not include something, to take something out of a set of
things |
The criminal had blond hair, so the police eliminated all the
suspects with brown and black hair. |
| 9 |
to dispatch ~ |
to send a letter or a person somewhere else |
There was a crime reported in the neighborhood, so the police
dispatched some officers. |
| 10 |
to pursue ~ |
to chase |
They pursued the criminal through the city. |
| 11 |
to verify ~ |
to make sure that something is as you think it is |
The picture was black and white, so they couldn't verify the
color of his hair. |
| 12 |
to defect |
in the middle of a fight or conflict, to leave one group and
join the other group |
He was sent to fight in Vietnam, but he defected and joined the
Vietnamese army. |
| 13 |
to be ruthless |
to be uncaring and extreme in your actions toward a goal |
He was a good commander, but he was ruthless and he killed a
lot of people. |
| 14 |
an operative |
a spy or secret agent |
The government has operatives all over the world, I have
heard. |
| 15 |
to lay low |
to live in a secret manner so people cannot find you |
After robbing the bank, the criminals decided to lay low for
many months. |
| 16 |
to infiltrate ~ |
for an enemy person to secretly become part of one's group |
The FBI agents infiltrated the drug operation using disguises
and fake names. |
| 17 |
to expose ~ |
to say or publish the truth about something, or to discover
something |
The police exposed a tunnel under the US/Canadian border used
for smuggling drugs. |
| 18 |
to uncover ~ |
to find something that was supposed to be secret |
We uncovered a large fake-passport printing operation in the
small town. |
| 19 |
to blow one’s cover |
to make it so that someone's true identity is revealed |
Pictures of the spy were published on the Internet; it blew his
cover. |
| 20 |
to hide out |
to live in a secret way in order to escape punishment |
They were hiding out in the old building for many weeks after
the robbery. |
| 21 |
to go on the run |
to flee or run away after you commit a crime |
The bank robbers stole a car and went on the run for
weeks. |