English Vocabulary from
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Topic 1 : "Short-sighted hike in U.S. visa fee"
- Mongering - the action of deliberately arousing public fear (to spread fear among people)
- Inevitably - unavoidably (something that is surely happen, unable to be avoided or prevented)
- Rhetoric - speech or writing intended to be effective and influence people
- Pitch - to make someone to do something
- Retaliatory - to do something in response to an action (attack)
- Dispute - an official argument
- Amicably - friendly
- Discriminatory - to treat people differently (partiality)
- Vis-à-vis - in comparison with
- Impact - influence (to show effect)
- Tit-for-tat - giving back as much as you got (especially punishment)
- To focus on the larger picture - to focus on the most important facts about a situation and the effects of that situation on other things
- Surplus - more than what is needed or used
- Looming - something unwanted is going to happen soon and causing worry
- Retiree - a person who has retired from his job
- Curbs - to control or limit something that is not wanted
- Treasury - A place in which private or public funds are received, kept, managed, and disbursed
- philanthropic - to help others
Topic 2 : "Only for the rich ?"
- Pious - deeply religious
- Boasts - to have something to be proud of
- Compelled - forced to do something
- Abstain - to not do something (especially something enjoyable but bad)
- Consumption - to drink / to eat / to use something
- Arbitrariness - using power to do something without considering other people's wishes
- Caprice - a sudden and usually silly wish to do something
- Preserve - maintain (something) in its original or existing state
- Strikes at the root - to hit on basics (to focus on the reason behind the problem)
- Merely - only
- Moratorium - a temporary prohibition of an activity
- To uphold something - to support something
- Twofold - having two parts
- Unexceptionable - having nothing that anyone could criticize or disapprove of (not bad)
- Verdict - an opinion or decision made after judging the facts that are given (Judge)
- Ought to - have to
- Wary - not completely trusting something or someone
- Echelons - a particular level or group of people within an organization
- Contention - an opinion expressed in an argument (disagreement)
- Laudable - worthy of high praise
- Confining - restricting something
- Permissive society - the society which allows behaviour that other people might disapprove of (here drinking)
- Covert - not openly displayed (secret or hidden)
- Phenomenon - a situation that we can observe (this situation helps us to explain something)
- In its wake / in the wake of - as a result of some event (after something)
- Rehabilitate - to restore normal life (here to give jobs)
- Discretion - the ability to behave without hurting anybody's feelings
- Extraneous - outside
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