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Vocabulary: violence
There are some themes of vocabulary that we'd rather not have to use...
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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 fight/ to fight, I fought, fought. |
To hit sb with sth/ To strike sb with sth |
To batter sb (to death) |
To hit back |
A thug/ a hooligan |
A riot/ a rioter |
To run amok/ to run riot |
To stab |
To knife sb |
To knock sb out/ To knock sb unconscious |
A cosh/ to cosh sb |
To strangle sb |
To knock sb about/ To manhandle sb |
To ill-treat sb/ ill-treatment |
- 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
Violent/ violently |
Savage |
Ferocious/ ferocity |
Brutal/ brutality |
Barbaric/ barbarious |
An atrocity |
A massacre/ a slaughter |
Cruel to sb/ cruelty |
Bloodthirsty |
Sadism/ sadistic/ a sadist |
Domestic violence: to batter Ferocious...
- A form of torture
- To force somebody to do something
To persecute somebody |
To torment somebody |
Torture/ to torture somebody/ a torturer |
To oppress somebody/ oppression/ an oppressor |
Yuk ! Horrible words... Still it's better to know them, if we want to eradicate, or at least reduce, the actions they describe...
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