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Topic 1 : "Erdogan’s coup"
- Coup - a sudden, violent, and illegal seizure of power from a government
- Vengefully - expressing a strong wish to punish someone who has harmed you or your family or friends
- Disproportionate - too large or too small in comparison with something else
- Hardly - almost not
- Authoritarian - demanding that people obey completely and refusing to allow them freedom to act as they wish
- Streak - an often unpleasant characteristic that is very different from other characteristics
- Capitalise on something - to use a situation to your own advantage
- Purge - to get rid of people from an organization because you do not agree with them
- Cleric - a religious leader
- Furnish - to provide
- Emergency - an unexpected situation involving danger in which immediate action is necessary
- Sweeping - complete
- Decree - an official order that has the force of law
- Crackdown - a situation in which someone starts to deal with bad or illegal behaviour in a more serious way
- Coup-plotters - people who secretly makes plans to do something illegal or harmful
- Revolt - take violent action against an established government or ruler
- Dictatorial - telling people what to do and refusing to listen to their opinions
- Threat - a situation or an activity that could cause harm or danger
- Constitutional - relating to an established set of principles governing a state
- Secularism - the belief that religion should not be involved with the ordinary social and political activities of a country
- Founding - established or originated
- Large-scale - involving many people or things, or happening over a large area
- Resentment - an angry unhappy feeling that you have when you think you have been treated unfairly or without enough respect
- Junta - a military or political group that rules a country after taking power by force
- Regime - government
- Brutal - cruel, violent, and completely without feelings
- Takeover - to get control of something from somebody
- Emerge - to become
- Standing - position, status, or reputation
- Survived - continue to live or exist, especially in spite of danger or hardship
- Revengeful - wanting and taking revenge
- Strongman - a person who is very powerful and able to cause change, especially of a political type
- Allies - supporters
- Roughly - approximately
- Purged - rid (someone) of an unwanted feeling, memory, or condition
- Counterproductive - having the opposite of the expected / wanted effect
- Heightened - increased
- Destabilising - to make a government or political group lose power or control
- Sullying - damaging the purity of something
- Scientific - relating to science
- Commendable - deserving praise
- Sent out a strong message - to make someone understand that a particular thing is right or true
- Microbial - realted to a very small living thing, especially one that causes disease, that can only be seen with a microscope
- Fabrication - to invent or produce something false in order to cheat someone
- Peer-review - the process of someone reading, checking, and giving his or her opinion about something that has been written by another scientist or expert working in the same subject area, or a piece of work in which this is done
- Retracted - withdraw (to take back)
- Preliminary - basic / initial
- Revealed - to let something become known, for example a secret or information that was previously not known
- Cooked something up - to invent a story, plan, etc., usually dishonestly
- Complicity - involvement in a crime or some activity that is wrong
- Misconduct - seriously bad or dishonest behaviour, especially by someone who has a position of responsibility
- Stem cell - a cell that is taken from a person or animal at an early stage of development and is capable of developing into cells of any type, for example nerve cells or blood cells
- Nevertheless - despite what has just been said or referred to
- Significant - important or noticeable
- Laid down - to officially establish a rule, or to officially say how something should be done
- Complicit - involved in or knowing about something bad that happens
- Instance - an example of something happening
- Isolated - separated from other things with which it is connected or mixed
- Metabolising - to use chemical processes in the body to turn food into energy, new growth, and waste products
- Foul play - behaviour that is not fair or honest or that does not keep to accepted rules
- Bright spot - something that is good when everything else seems bad
- Readiness - a state of being ready and able to deal with what might or will happen
- Get to the root of problem - to discover the truth / origins about a problem
- Allegations - statements, made without giving proof, that someone has done something wrong or illegal
- Brushing something under the carpet - to hide a problem or try to keep it secret instead of dealing with it
- Handicap - something that makes it difficult for you to do something
- Confronted - to face, meet, or deal with a difficult situation or person
- Thoroughly - very much
- Fraudulent - illegal or dishonest
- Seldom - not often (very rarely)
- Nodal - central
- On the lines of - similar to
- Trash - something that is of low quality
- Sullies - spoils something that is pure or someone's perfect reputation
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