Word List World War One 499 words

World War One Vocabulary Word List (499)

• A

  account, action, advance, aerial, afloat, aggressor, agitator, aim, aircraft, airfield, airplane, alert, alliance, allies, ambulance, ambush, ammunition, anarchy, anguish, annihilate, appease, armament, Armed Forces, armory, arms, arsenal, artillery, ashore, assassin, assassinate, assault, atrocity, attack, attrition, authority, automatic

• B

  barrage, barricade, battalion, batter, battle, battlefield, belligerent, betrayal, blast, blindside, blood, bombardment, bombs, breach, broken, brutal, brutality, bullet, bunker, burn, bury

• C

  cadaver, camouflage, cannon, captive, captive, capture, cargo, carnage, carrier, casualties, caution, cautious, chaos, charge, charred, checkpoint, chief, civilian, clandestine, clash, collapse, combat, command, commander, compassion, comply, concussion, conflagration, conflict, confrontation, confusion, conquer, conscript, conscription, consequences, conspiracy, conspire, contact, control, convoy, coordinate, coordinates, corps, corpse, counterattack, countermand, counteroffensive, courageous, crisis, cross-hairs, culpability

• D

  damage, danger, dangerous, dash, dead, deadly, death, debacle, debris, defector, defend, defense, defensive, demolish, demoralize, desertion, despair, despot, destroy, destruction, detect, detection, detente, devastation, devices, dictator, die, disarmament, disarray, disaster, disastrous, discipline, disease, dismantle, dispatch, disperse, dispute, disruption, dissonance, dominate, doomed, downfall, drama, dread, duty

• E

  encounter, endure, enemy, enforce, engage, enlist, epithet, escalate, escape, espionage, evacuate, execute, execution, exercise, expectations, explode, explosion, explosive, extreme

• F

  fanatic, fatal, fear, fearless, ferment, ferocious, fierce, fiery, fight, fighter, flank, flee, flight, force, forceful, fortification, foxhole, fray, frenzy, fright, front lines, fuel, fugitive, furtive, fusillade

• G

  gas, generation, genocide, gore, government, grave, grenade, grievous, groans, guard, guns

• H

  hammering, harsh, hatred, hazards, help, heroic, heroism, hide, hit, hit-and-run, horses, hospitalize, hostility, howitzer

• I

  ignite, impact, improvise, incident, incite, infantry, infiltrate, inflame, informant, injuries, instructions, intelligence, intense, intercept, interdict, international, interrogation, intervene, intimidate, invasion, investigate, investigations, involvement, ire

• J

  jeer, join

• K

  keen, kidnap, kill, knives, knock-out

• L

  lament, land mines, launch, legacy, liaison, liberate, liberation, liberators, loathsome, loyal

• M

  macabre, machine guns, machines, maim, malevolent, malicious, maraud, march, massacre, mayhem, medics, menace, militancy, militant, militaristic, military, militia, mines, mission, mistreatment, mobile, mobilization, momentum, mortars, munitions, murder, muscle, mustard gas

• N

  nationalist, negotiation, neutralize, nightmare, nitrate, notorious

• O

  offensive, officer, officials, onerous, operation, opposition, options, order, outbreak, overrun, overthrow

• P

  pacify, partisan, patriot, patriotism, patrol, peace, penetrate, perform, persecute, petrify, photos, pilot, pistol, planes, platoon, plunder, position, post, potent, powder, power, powerful, preemptive, premeditated, prison, prisoner, proliferate, provoke, prowl, public, pugnacious, pulverize

• Q

  quail, queasy, quell, quest, questions, quiver

• R

  rage, rally, ravage, ravish, readiness, rebellion, reconnaissance, recovery, recruit, Red Cross, reform, regime, regiment, reinforcements, relentless, reprisal, reputation, rescue, resistance, retaliation, retreat, retribution, revenge, ricochet, rifle, rift, rot, rounds, rule, ruthless

• S

  sabotage, sacrifice, scare, scramble, secrecy, secret, security, seize, seizure, sense, setback, shelling, shells, shock, shoot, shot, showdown, siege, skirmish, slaughter, soldier, sorrow, specialized, spot, spy, squad, stash, stealth, storm, straggler, strangle, strategic, strategy, strife, strike, strip, stronghold, struggle, suffering, supplies, support, suppress, surprise, surrender, survival, survivor, suspect, sword

• T

  tactics, tank, target, tension, terrain, terror, terror, terrorize, threaten, thwart, topple, torch, tourniquet, tragic, training, trample, transportation, trap, trap, trauma, trauma, treachery, trench, trigger, triumph, turbulent

• U

  unbelievable, uniform, unify, unit, unite, unleash, urgency

• V

  valiant, valor, vanish, vehicle, vehicular, veteran, vicious, victory, vile, vilify, violation, violence, virulence, vision, vital, void, volunteer, vow, vulnerability

• W

  wage, war, warfare, warplane, warrant, watchful, weapon, well-trained, whiz, wince, wisdom, worldwide, wounds, wreckage

• X

  x-ray

• Y

  yearn, years, yelling

• Z

  zealot, zeppelin, zigzag, zone