English Vocabulary Practice

Choose a topic, practice it, and we will work on it together in class.

Topics โ€บ Military & Aviation English

Military Training & Academy Life

EnglishKoreanExample
drill ์ œ์‹ ํ›ˆ๋ จ / ํ›ˆ๋ จ We practice drill on the parade ground every morning.
formation ๋Œ€ํ˜• / ๋Œ€์—ด The cadets stood in formation before breakfast.
barracks ๋ง‰์‚ฌ / ์ƒํ™œ๊ด€ The barracks must be clean before inspection.
mess hall ๊ตฐ ์‹๋‹น / ์‹๋‹น We eat three meals a day in the mess hall.
physical training ์ฒด๋ ฅ ๋‹จ๋ จ / ์ฒด๋ ฅ ํ›ˆ๋ จ Physical training starts at six every morning.
obstacle course ์žฅ์• ๋ฌผ ์ฝ”์Šค / ์œ ๊ฒฉ ์ฝ”์Šค He finished the obstacle course in record time.
inspection ๊ฒ€์—ด / ์ ๊ฒ€ The room must be perfect for tomorrow's inspection.
uniform ๊ตฐ๋ณต / ์ œ๋ณต Keep your uniform clean and pressed at all times.
salute ๊ฒฝ๋ก€ Cadets salute officers when they meet them outside.
roll call ์ ํ˜ธ / ์ธ์› ์ ๊ฒ€ Everyone must be present for morning roll call.
leave ํœด๊ฐ€ He went home on leave for two weeks.
pass ์™ธ์ถœ์ฆ / ์™ธ๋ฐ• She got a weekend pass to visit her family.
curfew ํ†ต๊ธˆ / ๊ท€์˜ ์‹œ๊ฐ„ The curfew for cadets is ten at night.
discipline ๊ตฐ๊ธฐ / ๊ทœ์œจ Discipline is the foundation of military life.
instructor ๊ต๊ด€ Our instructor explained the exercise very clearly.
classmate ๋™๊ธฐ์ƒ / ๋™๊ธฐ My classmate helped me study for the English exam.
oath ์„ ์„œ The new cadets took the oath together.
graduation ์กธ์—… / ์ž„๊ด€์‹ My whole family came to my graduation.
deployment ํŒŒ๋ณ‘ / ๋ฐฐ์น˜ His first deployment lasted six months overseas.
duty ์ž„๋ฌด / ๊ทผ๋ฌด It is my duty to report on time.
schedule ์ผ์ • / ์ผ๊ณผํ‘œ The training schedule changes every week.
training ํ›ˆ๋ จ / ๊ต์œก The training was hard but very useful.
boot camp ์‹ ๋ณ‘ ํ›ˆ๋ จ์†Œ Boot camp teaches recruits the basics of military life.
march ํ–‰๊ตฐ / ํ–‰์ง„ We will march ten kilometers with full packs.
push-up ํŒ”๊ตฝํ˜€ํŽด๊ธฐ He can do fifty push-ups without stopping.
sit-up ์œ—๋ชธ์ผ์œผํ‚ค๊ธฐ The fitness test includes two minutes of sit-ups.
reveille ๊ธฐ์ƒ ๋‚˜ํŒ” / ๊ธฐ์ƒ Reveille sounds at five thirty every morning.
lights out ์†Œ๋“ฑ Lights out is at ten, so sleep early.
bunk ์นจ์ƒ / ์ด์ธต ์นจ๋Œ€ Make your bunk neatly before you leave the room.
footlocker ๊ฐœ์ธ ์‚ฌ๋ฌผํ•จ / ๊ด€๋ฌผ๋Œ€ Keep your footlocker organized and locked.
latrine ํ™”์žฅ์‹ค (๊ตฐ๋Œ€ ์šฉ์–ด) The latrine must be cleaned every evening.
guard duty ๊ฒฝ๊ณ„ ๊ทผ๋ฌด / ๋ณด์ดˆ ๊ทผ๋ฌด I have guard duty from midnight until two.
cadence ๊ตฐ๊ฐ€ ๊ตฌํ˜ธ / ๊ตฌ๋ น The platoon sang a cadence while running.
honor code ๋ช…์˜ˆ ๊ทœ์œจ / ๋ช…์˜ˆ ์ œ๋„ The honor code says a cadet never lies.
demerit ๋ฒŒ์  He received a demerit for being late.
upperclassman ์ƒ๊ธ‰์ƒ / ์„ ๋ฐฐ ์ƒ๋„ An upperclassman showed us around the academy.
underclassman ํ•˜๊ธ‰์ƒ / ํ›„๋ฐฐ ์ƒ๋„ Every underclassman must greet the seniors politely.
fitness test ์ฒด๋ ฅ ๊ฒ€์ • The fitness test includes running, push-ups, and sit-ups.
regulation ๊ทœ์ • Your haircut must follow the regulation.
morale ์‚ฌ๊ธฐ Good food and rest keep morale high.
teamwork ํŒ€์›Œํฌ / ํ˜‘๋™ Teamwork helped us finish the course together.
leadership ๋ฆฌ๋”์‹ญ / ํ†ต์†”๋ ฅ The academy teaches leadership through daily practice.
endurance ์ง€๊ตฌ๋ ฅ Long runs build endurance for the field.
dormitory ๊ธฐ์ˆ™์‚ฌ The cadets live in the dormitory during the semester.
semester ํ•™๊ธฐ The spring semester ends in early June.
exam ์‹œํ—˜ I studied all night for the English exam.
academics ํ•™๊ณผ ๊ต์œก / ํ•™์—… Cadets balance academics, sports, and military training.
roommate ๋ฃธ๋ฉ”์ดํŠธ / ๊ฐ™์€ ๋ฐฉ ๋™๊ธฐ My roommate wakes up earlier than I do.
ceremony ์˜์‹ / ๊ธฐ๋…์‹ The flag ceremony takes place every Friday.
parade ์—ด๋ณ‘์‹ / ๋ถ„์—ด The cadets practiced for the graduation parade.
attention ์ฐจ๋ ท Stand at attention when an officer enters.
fall in ์ง‘ํ•ฉ / ์ •๋ ฌ (๊ตฌ๋ น) The sergeant shouted, and we quickly fell in.
fall out ํ—ค์ณ / ํ•ด์‚ฐ (๊ตฌ๋ น) After the announcement, we were told to fall out.
at ease ์‰ฌ์–ด The captain said, and everyone relaxed, at ease.
dismissed ํ•ด์‚ฐ The class is dismissed, see you tomorrow.
yes, sir ๋„ค, ์•Œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค (์ƒ๊ด€์—๊ฒŒ) He answered loudly, and clearly, yes, sir.
permission to speak ๋ฐœ์–ธ ํ—ˆ๊ฐ€ ์š”์ฒญ Sir, may I have permission to speak?
about face ๋’ค๋กœ ๋Œ์•„ On the command about face, turn around sharply.
forward march ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€ The platoon stepped off at forward march.
carry on ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด / ํ•˜๋˜ ์ผ ๊ณ„์† The officer nodded and told us to carry on.
as you were ์›์œ„์น˜ / ํ•˜๋˜ ๋Œ€๋กœ He said as you were, so we continued working.
double time ๊ตฌ๋ณด๋กœ / ๋›ฐ์–ด ๊ฐ€ We moved at double time to the field.
halt ์ œ์ž๋ฆฌ์— ์„œ / ์ •์ง€ The squad stopped instantly at the command halt.
left face ์ขŒํ–ฅ์ขŒ On left face, everyone turned at the same time.
right face ์šฐํ–ฅ์šฐ The command right face turns the formation right.
sound off ๋ฒˆํ˜ธ ๋ถ™์—ฌ / ํฌ๊ฒŒ ์™ธ์ณ Sound off with your name and hometown.