English Vocabulary from
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Topic 1 : "Sunny times for solar"
Topic 2 : "The horror in Dhaka"
- Sunny times - happy moments / good days
- Alliance - an agreement to work with someone else to try to achieve the same thing
- Mobilise - to organize or prepare something
- Trillion - 1,000,000,000,000
- Investment - the act of putting money into something to make a profit
- Initiative - a new plan or process to achieve something or solve a problem
- Significant - important or noticeable
- Transition - change
- Declining - reducing
- Obstacle - something that prevent progress
- Scale-up something - to increase the size, amount, or importance of something
- Photovoltaic - able to produce electricity from light, or relating to the process of doing this
- Hedging - the activity of reducing the risk of losing money
- Ambition - a strong wish to achieve something / goal
- Renewables - types of energy such as wind power and power from the sun that can be replaced as quickly as they are used
- Domestic - local
- Setback - something that happens that delays or prevents a process from developing
- Adverse - having a negative or harmful effect on something
- Stipulation - saying exactly how something must be or must be done
- Essential - absolutely necessary; extremely important
- Sustained - continuing for an extended period or without interruption
- Boon - a thing that is helpful or beneficial
- Rooftop - the outer surface of a building's roof
- Energiewende - german word for energy transition
- For instance - for example
- Transparent - open and honest, without secrets
- Regime - a particular way of operating
- Bureaucratic - involving complicated rules and processes that make something slow and difficult
- Hurdle - a problem that you have to deal with before you can make progress:
- Ramping up something - to increase something
- Arguably - used when stating an opinion or belief that you think can be shown to be true
- Reliability - able to be trusted or believed
- Emphasis - special importance, value given to something
- Accurately - exactly / correctly
- Forecast - estimate / predict
- Viability - to work as expected or able to succeed
- Conventional - traditional and ordinary
- Innovation - (the use of) a new idea or method
- Potential - possible when the necessary conditions exist
- Exploit - to use something in a way that helps you
Topic 2 : "The horror in Dhaka"
- Horror - an extremely strong feeling of fear and shock
- Upmarket - very high quality and intended to be bought by people who are quite rich
- Clout - power and influence over other people or events
- Radicalised groups - a group of people who believes that there should be great social or political change
- Escalation - a rapid increase / a rise
- Siege - an operation in which a police or other force surround a building and cut off supplies, with the aim of forcing an armed person to surrender
- Rhetoric - something intended to be effective and influence people
- Assailants - people who physically attack others
- Hacked - to cut into pieces in a rough and violent way
- Significant - important to be worthy of attention / noteworthy
- Crusader - someone who works hard for a long time to achieve something that they strongly believe is morally right
- Apostate - someone who has given up their religion or left a political party
- Play down - to make something seem less important or less bad than it really is
- Threat - something likely to cause damage or danger
- Sensibilities - feelings
- Crackdown - a series of serious measures to restrict undesirable or illegal people or behaviour
- Arena - a stage to perform an act
- Propaganda - information, ideas, opinions, or images, often only giving one part of an argument, that are broadcast, published, or in some other way spread with the intention of influencing people's opinions
- Simmering - something that is simmering is controlled but may burst out at any time, often violently
- Strategies - detailed plans to achive success in situations like war / politics / business
- Perceive - become aware or conscious of (something) / come to realize or understand
- Step back - to temporarily stop being involved in an activity or situation in order to think about it in a new way
- High-handedness - using power or authority more forcefully than is needed, without thinking about the feelings or wishes of other peopl
- Dissent - a strong difference of opinion on a particular subject
- Hollowed out - became empty inside
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