soap opera –n. a kind of dramatic television or radio program of continuing stories of the daily lives of a group of people
revenge –n. the act of hurting someone because they hurt you first
bribery –n. to receive an illegal payment in return for supporting a public law or policy
obstruction –n. to block something from going forward
in the same boat –idiom in the same situation
prosecution –n. the process of facing charges in a legal court