YT How America is failing its whistleblowers
Whistleblower Karen Silkwood
Idioms 1
Idioms 2
Words, words, words
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Being a whistleblower is a (decode) 

v a r b e  and  t r i p t o a i c thing to do.

Why whistleblowing is a brave and patriotic thing to do?

100

The emission of energy that can cause cancer 

What emission is called a radiation?

100

We were raised in an atmosphere where families kept t...................... to t.......................

Where the families keep themselves to themselves?

100

To bite your ... 

What is to bite your tongue?

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a l t e i a t e r

make an attack in return for a similar attack

What is to retaliate?

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................... your evidence of government wrongdoing directly to the media.

What is known as leaking?

200

Karen Silkwood is regarded as a whistle-blower who paid the ... price. (final, most extreme)

Who paid the ultimate price? 

200

Dangerous secrets can be kept behind the .... .....

What secrets are kept behind closed doors?

200

Police have appealed for witnesses, but it seems the locals are keeping ... 

decode t c m u h s

What is know as keeping schtum?

200

m p t i i c o l c y

Helping or encouraging another individual to commit a crime.

What encouraging is called complicity?

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Edward Snowden showed evidence of a massive ... program (close observation, especially of a suspected spy or crimina)

What was a surveillance program? 

300

The officials accused Karen of ... herself to embarrass the firm. (poisonous polluting) 

Who was accused of contamination?

300

So when should you spill the ... and be honest?

When should you spill the beans? 

300

Someone _ _ _ _ _ _ _  him up. (told the police about his criminal activity)

Who grassed him up?

300

T _ _ _ _ _ _ r _ _ s

guilty of or involving betrayal or deception

What betrayal is called treacherus?

400

The name of the unprecedented program after 9/11 (collecting emails, phone conversations and the web activity)

What program was called Stellar Wind.

400

... that she had been forced off the road was never confirmed. (hypothesize without strong evidence)

What speculations were never confirmed?

400

It's a secret so try not to let the ... out of the ...

When shouldn't you let the cat out of the bag?

400

Button your ... (stop or refrain from talking)

When one should button their lip?

400

_ _ _ _ l

Spreading very quickly, especially on the Internet


What type of message spreading is called viral?

500

... Act has been used to prosecute a whistleblower 

What is an Espionage Act?

500

The coroner discovered ... in her blood (drugs that make people calmer, or make them sleep )

Who discovered sedatives?

500

To make sure he didn't give .... away I gave him a swift kick in the shin under the table

Who shouldn't give the game away?

500

Keep something under... (keep a secret)

What is keeping something under wraps/the hat?

500

_ _ _ _ _  campaign = an effort to damage or call into question someone's reputation, by negative propaganda

What campaign is called smear campaign?

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