Vocabulary from the film, “The Interpretor”

Vocabulary from the film, The Interpretor

a diplomatic headache (“This is a diplomatic headache for both of us”)

a rebel rally

chastise

drag it (“I don’t want to drag it downstairs and then drag it back up again”)

ethnic cleansing

fathom (“impossible to fathom”)

genocide

in the throes of

make it up = invent (“I’m not making it up”), make up a story

“pie in the sky”

put in jeopardy (also “to jeopardize”) (“We must not allow the peace of the world to be jeopardized”

rage

resign

“technology is altering our world in ways we could not even imagine in the past”

vengeance

whisper