English Vocabulary from
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Topic 1 : "Apple stands up to surveillance"
Topic 2 : "The emperor’s new nationalism"
- Surveillance - close observation, especially of a suspected spy or criminal
- Revelation - a surprising and previously unknown fact that has been disclosed to others
- Unprecedented - never done or known before
- Pursuing - follow or chase (someone or something)
- Jeopardising - to put (someone or something) into danger
- Privileging - to give special importance to something
- Former - the first of given two things (which were previously mentioned)
- Latter- the first of given two things (which were previously mentioned)
- Complied - met specified standards
- Subpoena - a legal document ordering someone to appear in a law court
- Warrant - an official document, signed by a judge or other person in authority, that gives the police permission to search someone's home, arrest a person, or take some other action
- Protest - express an objection to something
- Giants - very successful and powerful people or organizations
- Defiance - behaviour in which you refuse to obey someone or something
- Compliance - obeying an order, rule, or request
- Peril - great danger
- Inevitably - unavoidably (sure to happen and cannot be prevented)
- Circumvent - to avoid something (especially cleverly or illegally)
- Intend - to have as a plan or purpose
- Discomfiture - a feeling of unease or embarrassment(uncomfortable)
- Lurking - hidden
- Stirred up - to cause an unpleasant emotion or problem to begin or grow
- Entrusted - assign the responsibility for doing something to someone
- Yielding - giving a product
- Enforce - cause (something) to happen by force
- Regimes - governments
- Constrain - to control and limit something
- Snooping - to try to find out about other people's private lives:
- Adequate - enough or satisfactory for a particular purpose
Topic 2 : "The emperor’s new nationalism"
- Nationalism - patriotic feeling
- Agenda - a list of aims or possible future achievements
- Discerned - recognize or find out
- First flush - at the start of something
- Pick fights - to start a fight or argument with someone on purpose
- Unfolded - became clear to other people
- Condemnable - deserving strong disapproval
- Gravity - seriousness
- Parody - to copy the style of someone or something in a humorous way
- Unmoved - not affected by emotion or excitement
- Obstinate - a problem / situation, that is difficult to deal with
- Condemnation - the expression of very strong disapproval
- Outrage - an extremely strong reaction of anger
- Seditious - the crime of saying, writing, or doing something that encourages people to disobey their government
- Convicted - to decide officially in a law court that someone is guilty of a crime
- Equivalence - the condition of being equivalent (equality)
- virtually - nearly / almost
- Essential - necessary or needed
- Citizenry - the citizens of a place
- Enforce - to make people obey a law
- Utterance - the action of saying or expressing something aloud
- Anxiety - a feeling of worry
- Touchstone - an established standard or principle by which something is judged
- Dispensation - exemption from a rule (special permission)
- Excess - an amount of something that is more than necessary
- Insinuated - suggest or hint something bad in an indirect and unpleasant way
- Curious - strange / unusual
- Overlay - to cover something
- Agitations - the situations in which people protest or argue in public, in order to achieve a particular type of change
- Menace - something that is likely to cause harm
- Instances - examples
- Thin-skinned - sensitive to criticism (easily hurt by criticism)
- Fend off somebody - to push or send away an attacker or other unwanted person
- Speak up - to express one's opinions frankly and publicly
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