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Vocabulary: violence

There are some themes of vocabulary that we'd rather not have to use...

Unfortunately, you'll notice that these types of words are very varied and include many, many expressions...

Therefore, you'll have to summon your patience and  your courage. 

                  A strike;

        To strike, I struck, struck.                                            A riot/ rioters

- A stone struck him in the face

- A stab wound

- A flick knife (BE)/ a switchblade (AE)

- The escalation of violence

              A flick knife                                                                      To strangle

Domestic violence: to batter                                      Ferocious...

- A form of torture

- To force somebody to do something

Yuk !   Horrible words... Still it's better to know them, if we want to eradicate, or at least reduce, the actions they describe...

Go for the test ! 

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A. In this detective story, an old woman was found struck bybattered tooppressed toI don't know death; It was a terrible end: she was stabbedstrangledstruckI don't know with a hammer.

B. At the end of the third round, the boxer was oppressedstabbedknocked outI don't know and the fight was stopped.

'If you go on spying on me as you do and gossipping to my parents, I’ll coshoppressstrangleI don't know you!'

D. I can’t stand the people who are stabbed likeoppressed bycruel toI don't know animals and don’t think they're breaking the law.

E. To me, the death penalty is nothing but a thugsadistbarbaricI don't know punishment which should be abolished all over the world.

F. You didn’t knock outstrikeforce him toI don't know accept the difficult position he's taken. He chose it willingly!

G. This population has always refused to be stabbed byoppressed byknocked byI don't know invaders. They have preserved their dignity.

H. The mugger forcedtreatedstabbedI don't know his victim in broad daylight and was arrested immediately.

I. In Western Europe, the violenceriotill-treatmentI don't know of animals is punished by the law.