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Topic 1 : "Triple whammy"
Topic 2 : "Sri Lanka conquers malaria"
- Triple whammy - a situation when three unpleasant things happen at almost the same time
- Egregious - extremely bad
- Employ - to use someone
- Instantaneously - happening immediately, without any delay
- Consent - permission or agreement
- Merely - just / only
- Uttering - to say something
- Rendered - to cause someone or something to be in a particular state
- Subsequent - happening after something else
- Practice - something that is usually or regularly done, often as a habit, tradition, or custom
- Unaware - not understanding or realizing something
- Pronouncements - an official announcement
- Owing to - because of
- Conservative - not willing to accept much change, especially in the traditional values of society
- Undergone - to experience something that is unpleasant or something that involves a change
- Severe - very serious
- Trauma - a bad experience that makes you feel very upset, afraid, or shocked
- Victim - someone who has been hurted or killed as the result of a crime
- Arbitrary - based on chance rather than being planned or based on reason
- Domestic violence - violent or aggressive behaviour within the home
- Litigation - use of the legal system to settle a disagreement
- Wield - to have a lot of influence or power over other people
- Predictably - as expected
- Regressive - relating to behaviour that is not responsible or controlled
- Affidavit - a legal document containing a written promise that something is true
- Defended - to protect someone or something from attack
- Custom - something that people do that is traditional or usual
- Resort - the fact that you have to do something because there is no other way of achieving something
- Patriarchal - ruled or controlled by men
- Aligned - to give your support publicly to something
- Dubious - not completely good, safe, or honest
- Polygamy - the custom of having more than one husband or wife at the same time in societies where this is legal
- Undesirable - not wanted, approved of, or popular
- Asunder - into forcefully separated pieces
- Sanction - official order
- Injunction - an official order to stop someone from doing something
- Irrevocable - not able to be changed
- Derecognised - withdraw recognition of something
- Arbitration - the process of solving an argument between people by helping them to agree to an acceptable solution
- Pronouncement - an official announcement
- Swayed - to cause something to move or change
- Pursue - to try to achieve / get something
- It is high time - used for saying that something should be done soon
Topic 2 : "Sri Lanka conquers malaria"
- Conquer - to deal with or successfully fight against a problem
- Interrupted - to stop something from happening
- Consecutive - continous (follow one after another without any break)
- Priority - something that is very important and must be dealt with before other things
- Endemic - very common, or strongly established in a place or situation
- Contracted - to become ill with a disease
- Commendable - deserving praise (used to formally praise someone or something)
- Initiative - an important action that is expected to solve a problem
- Adopted - to decide to start using a particular idea, plan, or method
- Two-pronged - involving two stages
- Strategy - a detailed plan for achieving success in difficult situations
- Vector - an insect or animal that carries a disease from one animal or plant to another
- Parasite - an animal or plant that lives on or in another animal or plant of a different type and feeds from it
- Undertaking - something difficult or complicated that you do
- Residual - remaining after most of something has gone
- Irrespective - without considering
- Symptom - any feeling of illness or physical or mental change that is caused by a particular disease
- Asymptomatic - showing no symptoms of a particular disease
- Reservoirs - a large supply of something
- Mobile - easy to move and use in different places
- Surveillance - the careful watching of something
- Oriented - aimed
- Enhancing - improving
- Expanded - to make something become larger in size
- Long-lasting - continuing for a long period of time
- Insecticide- a chemical for killing insects
- Premature - happening or done too soon
- Incidence - the rate at something happens
- Precise - exact and accurate
- Eradication - to get rid of something completely or destroy something bad
- Resistant - not harmed or affected by something
- Significantly - a way that is easy to see
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