English Vocabulary from
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Topic 1 : "Giving cities the smart edge"
- Civic - relating to a city or town
- Urbanisation - the process by which more and more people leave rural areas to live in cities
- Overwhelmed - to cover something suddenly and completely
- Rendering - the way that something is performed
- Incapable - unable to do something
- Sewerage - waste and used water that is carried away from buildings through pipes
- Pedestrian - a person who is walking
- Wilfully - intentionally (doing something bad)
- Violated - to break or act against something (law, agreement, principle etc)
- Severe - very great
- Congestion - too crowded and causing difficulties
- Incentivising - to encourage someone to do something
- Come up with something - to suggest an idea or plan
- Sustainable - able to continue over a period of time
- Adoption - accepting or starting to use something new
- Measurable - noticeable
- Virtually - almost (nearly)
- Disaggregated - to separate something into parts
- Imperative - crucial
- Mobility - the ability to move between different levels in society
- Emphasis - special importance / value given to something
- Walkability - a measure of how friendly an area is to walking
- Ambition - a strong desire to do something
- Opting - chosing
- Unattainable - not able to be achieved
- Merely - only
- Aided by - helped or supported by
- Potential - the capacity to develop into something in the future
- For instance - for example
- Impact - influence
- Gated communities - a group of houses, surrounded by fences or walls, that can only be entered by the people who live there
- Landscape - all the visible features of an area of land
- Enclave - a place that is different in character from those surrounding it
- Cater - provide with what is needed or required
- Convergence - the act of coming closer
Topic 2 : "The trouble with spectrum pricing"
- Spectrum - range of radio waves
- Public asset - something valuable belonging to the government
- End up - to finally be in a particular place or situation
- Scarce - insufficient
- Rendered - caused to be / became
- Vanguard - to be in leading position to develop something
- To spur - to encourage an activity or development or make it happen faster
- Opted - to make a choice
- Missive - official letter
- Spelt out - to explain something very clearly
- Rationale - reasons
- Likelihood - the chance that something will happen
- Germane - relevant and appropriate
- Possibly - perhaps (used to indicate doubt)
- Viability - capable of success
- Posited - put in position (placed)
- Recurring - occur again repeatedly
- Underscore - to show the importance of something
- Partly - not completely
- Decline - decrease
- Amortisation - spreading payments over multiple periods
- Contention - disagreement
- Task at hand - assigned work
- Transparency - the quality of doing something in an open way without secrets
- Openness - honesty
- Quest - search for something
- Plumping - to became heavier
- Operationalised - put into operation or use
- Intervening - happening between two times or between other events
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