CRIME
HEALTH
ENVIRONMENT
THE MEDIA
Housing
100

Taking a child away from his/her family

Kidnapping

100

Something that can be high, often because of stress or bad diet

Blood pressure

100

The process of making air (and water) dirty

Pollution

100

A word which means when a newspaper shows favour towards a certain group or opinion

Biased

100

A bank loan against which your house or flat is the security

A mortgage

200

The person who attacks someone to steal his/her money

Mugger

200

Something you should put on a small cut

A plaster
200

The rise in temperature caused by gases in the atmosphere

Greenhouse effect

200

   A story which is correct and has got the facts right can be described with this adjective

Accurate

200

A house standing on its own, not attached to any other house

Detached house

300

Demanding money or favours from someone by threatening to reveal a secret

Blackmail

300
You might get this if you eat food which is past its sell-by date

Food poisoning

300

It screens out the sun's harmful ultraviolet radiation

Ozone layer

300

A person who writes articles for different papers and is not employed by any one paper

A freelance journalist

300

A row of houses connected to each other by common side-walls

Terraced houses

400

The crime of starting a fire in order to destroy or damage something

Arson

400

What you should take if you have a headache e.g. aspirin or paracetamol

Painkillers

400

A dense woodland in a rainy region

Rainforest

400

A person who writes  in a newspaper or magazine giving advice to people in reply to their letters

Agony aunt

400

The place where we put the dishes to wash them up

The sink

500

The crime of killing a person by someone who did not intend to do it

Manslaughter

500

A phrasal verb that means to recover from an illness

Get over

500

Layer of spilt oil in the sea

Oil slick

500

A verb used in newspaper headlines wich means to marry

Wed

500

The person who is renting a flat from someone

A tenant