Karin's ESL PartyLand/Copyright 1998 by Amy Mullin
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Before You Watch: All the President's Men (Vocabulary)


This movie is based on a book written by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, the two reporters responsible for uncovering the Watergate scandal.  The movie was released in 1976.  It was directed by Alan J. Pakula and stars Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman.

  1. a probe/to probe into something
  2. to deduce/a deduction
  3. to scratch the surface
  4. disbursement/to disperse
  5. a crook
  6. to be set up by someone
  7. a fall guy
  8. to be frazzled
  9. infiltration
  10. verbatim
  11. the scuttlebug
  12. to divulge something
  13. to doublecross

 

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