Overview
This video provides concise definitions of key terms and vocabulary commonly asked during the U.S. citizenship interview, specifically from the N-400 form's 37 yes/no questions.
Vocabulary Definitions
- Claim: To say something is true.
- Claim to be a U.S. citizen: To state you are a U.S. citizen.
- Owe taxes: To owe the government money.
- Vote: To elect new leaders.
- Overdue: Past a deadline.
- Communist party: A political party like those in China or North Korea.
- Nonresident alien: A person who has not passed the green card test.
- Advocate: To support.
- Totalitarian party: Government controls everything, people have no power.
- Overthrow: To remove a government from power.
- Assassination: Action of killing someone.
- Sabotage: To destroy something.
- Kidnap: To take someone away illegally.
- Incite: To encourage.
- Hijack: To stop and steal a moving airplane.
- Genocide: To kill a whole race.
- Torture: To hurt someone physically.
- National origin: Where a person is from.
- Police unit: A group that protects the community.
- Military unit: A group that works for the government.
- Vigilante unit: A group acting like police but not official police.
- Paramilitary unit: Like a military group but not official.
- Guerrilla group: A group using weapons to attack the government.
- Self-defense unit: A group that protects a place.
- Prison/jail: A place where prisoners are kept.
- Rebel group: A group fighting a government.
- Prison camp: A place to keep enemy soldiers.
- Detained: Held in custody by police.
- Labor camp: A place to force people to work.
- Threaten: To warn to hurt someone.
- Detention facility: A place where people are forced to stay.
- Weapons training: To learn how to use a gun.
- Recruit/conscript: To add or require someone to join the army.
- Weapon: An item like a knife or gun.
- Paramilitary/military training: Learning to fight in combat.
- Enlist: To sign up in the armed forces.
- Hostilities: Fighting in a war.
- Offense: A minor crime.
- Cited: Given a ticket by police.
- Crime: An action that breaks the law.
- Commit a crime: To do something that breaks the law.
- Suspended sentence: Delay of a sentence.
- Confined: To be kept in a place.
- Arrested: Handcuffed by police.
- Probation: Regular reporting to an officer instead of jail time.
- Charged: Police say you did something illegal.
- Procure: To find someone for sex.
- Manufacture: To make something.
- Parole: Early release of a prisoner.
- Prostitute: Someone who has sex for money.
- Cultivate: To grow plants.
- Dispense/distribute: To supply something.
- Controlled substances: Can be bought with a prescription but restricted.
- Produce: To make something.
- Illegal drugs/narcotics: Drugs like heroin or cocaine.
- Drug paraphernalia: Equipment to make illegal drugs.
- Smuggle: To take things to a country illegally.
- Gamble: To play a game for money.
- Immigration benefit: Things like a visa, green card, or citizenship.
- Misrepresentation: To lie or give wrong information.
- Dependent: Someone who relies on another person.
- False: Not true.
- Pay alimony: To pay money to ex-spouse after divorce.
- Misleading: Giving the wrong idea.
- Public benefit: Welfare like food stamps.
- Admission into the U.S.: The right to enter the U.S.
- Fraudulent: To claim something not true.
- Lie: To say something not true.
- Recision: To take back a decision.
- Selective Service: Service in Armed Forces under law.
- Deportation proceedings: Process of removing a person.
- Drafted: Being selected as a soldier.
- Deport: To force someone to leave a country.
- Avoid being drafted: Prevent being selected as a soldier.
- Court martial: To go to military court.
- Discharge: A soldier leaves the military.
- U.S. Armed Forces: U.S. military (Navy, Air Force).
- Desert: To abandon.
- Alien: Not a U.S. citizen.
- Order of nobility: Like king or queen.
- Constitution: Supreme law of the land.
- Hereditary title: A royal title (prince, princess).
- Form of government: Republic.
- Non-combatant Services: Services not involving combat.
- Civilian direction: Orders from a non-military person.
- Civilian: A person not in the military.
- Oath of allegiance: Promise to be loyal to the U.S.
- Work of national importance: Tasks important to a nation.
- Bear arms: To own or use a gun.