English Vocabulary from
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Topic 1 : "Finding judicial closure in Gulbarg"
Topic 2 : "Tragedy of the boat people"
- Borne - carried or moved by a particular thing:
- Mob violence - violence caused by a large crowd of people
- Horrific - very bad and shocking
- Dimension - a part or feature or way of considering something
- Conviction - a strong opinion or belief
- Rioting - violent public disturbance
- Accountability - responsibility
- Massacre - an act of killing a lot of people
- Rampaging - a large group of people moving through a place in a violent and uncontrollable manner
- Gruesome - extremely unpleasant and shocking, and usually dealing with death or injury
- Riot - a violent disturbance of the peace by a crowd
- Conviction - the decision of a judge in a court of law that someone is guilty of a criminal offence
- Partial - incomplete
- Significant - sufficiently great or important to be worthy of attention / noteworthy.
- Constituted - to form or make something
- Probe - a thorough investigation into a crime or other matter
- Misgiving - a feeling of doubt or worry about a future event
- Arson - the criminal act of deliberately setting fire to property
- Quantum - a required or allowed amount
- In store - going to happen soon
- Capital offence - a crime that can be punished by death
- Perpetrator - someone who has committed a crime
- Communal - belonging to a group of people
- Consolation - something that makes someone who is sad or disappointed feel better
- Conviction - the fact of officially being found to be guilty of a particular crime
- Verdict - judgement
- Trial court - a court of law where cases are tried in the first place, as opposed to an appeal court
- Upheld - confirm or support (something which has been questioned)
- Conspiracy - a secret plan by a group to do something unlawful or harmful
- Acquitted - to decide officially in a law court that someone is not guilty of a particular crime
- Repudiated - rejected
- Allegation - a statement, made without giving proof, that someone has done something wrong or illegal
- Rallying point - something that makes people join together to support a person, cause, etc
- Implicated - show (someone) to be involved in a crime
- Collapse - the sudden failure of something
- Imply - indicate
- Carnage - the killing of a large number of people
- Spontaneity - happening or done in a natural, often sudden way, without any planning
- Subtle - making use of clever and indirect methods to achieve something
- Orchestration - to arrange something carefully, to achieve a wanted result
- Delineate - to describe or mark the edge of something
- Culpability - responsibility for a fault or wrong / blame
- Wilful - intentional / deliberate
- Omission - someone or something that has been left out
- Closure - an act or process of closing something
Topic 2 : "Tragedy of the boat people"
- Shipwrecks - the destruction of a ship at sea by sinking or breaking up
- Refugee - a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster
- Crisis - a time of great difficulty or danger
- Confronting - facing a difficult situation
- Obvious - easy to see, recognize, or understand
- Unseaworthy - (of a boat or ship) not in a good enough condition to sail on the sea
- Vessels - ships / large boats
- Perilous - full of danger or risk
- Fleeing - running away from a place or situation of danger
- Misery - great unhappiness
- Drowned - died by being unable to breathe underwater
- Surpass - exceed / be greater than
- Spike - a sharp increase in something
- Strife - violent or angry disagreement
- Insulate - to protect someone or something from harmful experiences or influences
- Subside - become less intense, violent, or serious
- Prompted - encouraged
- Surge - a sudden and great increase
- Comprehensive - complete and including everything that is necessary
- Proactive - creating or controlling a situation rather than just responding to it after it has happened
- Rescue - save (someone) from a dangerous or difficult situation
- Financial muscle - financial strength
- Stable - strong
- Regime - government
- Toppled - fell down
- Sophisticated - intelligent
- Supplemented - add an extra element or amount to
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