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46 Cards in this Set
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Enlist |
To join the army |
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Draft |
Forced to join the army |
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Conscript |
Forced to join the army(draft) |
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Deploy |
Position soldiers or weapons for military action |
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Infiltrate |
To enter the territory secretly |
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Assail |
To attack |
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Vanquish |
To defeat, conquer |
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Rout |
To defeat (utterly) |
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Scotch |
Put an end to, crush, stamp out |
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Quash/squash |
Put an end to |
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Quell/squelch |
Put an end to, crush, stamp out (scotch, quash, squash, quell, squelch) |
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Capitulate |
To surrender, to give in |
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Yield |
To surrender (v), to produce (n) |
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Succumb |
To surrender (capitulate) |
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Pillage |
To plunder/loot |
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Maraud/marauderer |
To plunder |
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Ransack |
To search thoroughly |
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Rifle |
To seach thoroughly (ransack, rifle, rummage, scour) |
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Rummage |
To search thoroughly (rifle, ransack, rummage, scour) |
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Scour |
To search thoroughly (ransack, rifle, rummage, scour) |
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Scout /patrol |
Walk around an area to protect or supervise it |
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Incursion (n) |
A raid |
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Foray |
A raid (incursion) |
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Booty |
Loot |
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Espionage |
Spying |
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Reconnaissance |
Secret observation of an area |
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Reconnoitering |
Secret observation of an area (reconnaissance) |
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Surveillance |
Close watch by police esp. On suspected person |
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Ammunition |
Bullet, shells, grenades etc |
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Artillery |
Mounted guns and cannons |
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Shrapnel |
Fragments resulting from the explosion of a bomb |
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Assault |
Attack(n) /offensive (v) |
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Skirmish |
A minor battle |
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Sortie |
An air mission |
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Coup |
A surprise attack, highly successful maneuver |
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Truce |
A general peace, ceasefire, peace agreement |
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Cannonade |
Concentrated artillery bombardment(barrage, volley, salvo) |
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Barrage |
Concentrated artillery bombardment (connonade, barrage, volley, salvo) |
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Volley |
Concentrated artillery bombardment (connonade, barrage, volley, salvo) |
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Salvo |
Concentrated artillery bombardment (cannonade, barrage, volley, salvo) |
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Aggressor |
A person or country that attacks first |
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Combatant |
A fighter |
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Carbine |
Rifle |
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Bayonet |
A long sharp knife at the end of rifle used as a weapon |
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Sabre/rapier |
Sword |
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Gory |
Bloody |
