English Vocabulary from
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Topic 1 : "Undermining the SYL Canal"
Topic 2 : "Politics of intimidation"
- Undermining - destroying the base or foundation of something
- Thumb your nose at someone - to show no respect toward someone or something
- Status quo - the present situation or condition
- Unanimously - without opposition (with the agreement of all people involved)
- Emotive - causing strong feelings
- Wind down - slowly lose power
- Political adventurism - the willingness to take risks in politics
- Consensus - a general agreement.
- Unilateral - involving only one group or country
- Repudiation - rejection of a proposal or idea
- Onus - something that is one's duty or responsibility
- Reiterate - say something again or a number of times
- Redline - a boundary or limit which should not be crossed
- Rehabilitation - to return something to a good condition
- Assent - approval or agreement
- Scooping - digging
- Flora - the plants of a particular place
- Fever pitch - a state of extreme excitement
- Frenzied - uncontrolled and excited
- Crisis - a time of great disagreement, confusion, or suffering
- Legislation - a law or set of laws suggested by a government and made official by a parliament
- Reneged - to fail to keep a promise or an agreement
- Riparian - relating to or situated on the banks of a river
- Abdication - to stop controlling or managing something that you are in charge of
- Aggravated - to make a bad situation worse
- Wilful - doing something bad intentionally
- Reap - gather
- Dividend - the profit (of a company) that is paid to the people who own shares in it
- Spectre - the idea of something unpleasant that might happen in the future
- Barren - unable to produce plants or fruit
- Riot - a violent disturbance of the peace by a crowd
- Outrage - an extremely strong reaction of anger
- Fomented - to cause trouble to develop
- Coalition - the joining together of different political parties or groups for a particular purpose (usually for a limited time)
- Dispute - a disagreement or argument
- Amenable - willing to accept or be influenced by a suggestion
- Populist - representing or relating to the ideas and opinions of ordinary people
- Groundwork - preliminary or basic work
- Repudiation - rejection of a proposal or idea
- Squarely - directly
- Condemned - express complete disapproval of something
Topic 2 : "Politics of intimidation"
- Intimidation - to frighten or warn someone (usually inorder to make them do what you want)
- Sanction - a strong action taken in order to make people obey a law or rule, or a punishment given when they do not obey
- Outraging - a feeling of anger and shock
- Colleague - a person with whom one works in a profession or business
- Chant - to repeat or sing a word or phrase continuously
- Sequence - a particular order in which related things follow each other
- Unbecoming - not correct or not acceptable
- Criticize - to express disapproval of someone or something
- Memorials - a statue or structure established to remind people of a person or event
- Contemporaneous - happening or existing at the same period of time
- Expenditure - an amount of money spent
- Loyalties - your feelings of support or duty towards someone or something
- Uproar - a situation in which a lot of people complain about something angrily or make a lot of noise
- Coalition - the joining together of different political parties or groups for a particular purpose (usually for a limited time)
- Threatening - warning
- Resolution - an official decision
- Unanimously - without opposition (with the agreement of all people involved)
- Contest - to oppose an action as mistaken or wrong
- Precedent - an action, that has already happened and can be used as a reason why a similar action or decision should be performed
- Hollow out - to make something empty
- Asserting - to say a fact or belief confidently and forcefully
- Spectacular - very exciting to look at / great
- Privileges - special rights / advantages available only to a particular person or group
- Autonomy - the right of independent / self-government
- Dissent - a strong difference of opinion on a particular subject
- Potent - having great power / influence
- Insistence - forceful behaviour
- Alarm - a warning of danger
- Persuasion - a particular set of beliefs (religious or political ones)
- Ideologue - a person who believes very strongly in particular principles and tries to follow them carefully
- Patriarch - leader (mainly of a religious group)
- Polarize - to divide a group (contains different people or opinions) into two completely opposing groups
- Profess - to state something
- Majoritarian - a person who supports government by a majority
- Consensus - a general agreement
- Foreboding - a feeling that something very bad is going to happen soon
- Touchstone - an established standard or principle by which something is judged
- Migrating - moving from one part of something to another
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