English Vocabulary from
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Topic 1 : "Drought relief on order"
Topic 2 : "Regime change in Brazil"
- Drought - a long period when there is little or no rain
- Scarcity - shortage
- Reluctance - unwillingness to do something
- Decrying - publicly declare to be wrong or evil
- Federalism - the system of giving power to a central authority
- Writ - the authority to rule or make laws
- Remiss - lacking care or attention to duty / negligent
- Deficit - the amount by which something, especially a sum of money, is too small
- Irrigation - to supply land with water so that crops and plants will grow
- Perennial - lasting a very long time
- Proactive - taking action by causing change and not only reacting to change when it happens
- Mitigation - the action of reducing the seriousness of something
- Assessment - the act of judging or deciding the amount, value, quality, or importance of something
- Mandate - give (someone) authority to act in a certain way
- Attribute to something - to say or think that something is the result of something else
- Several - some (more than two but not many)
- Extraction - the process of removing something by force
- Eroded - gradually destroyed
- Aquifer - a layer of rock, sand, or earth that contains water or allows water to pass through it
- Replenish - fill (something) up again
- Slit - cut
- Accumulation - an amount of something that has been collected
- Harvesting - the process of collecting a natural resource to use it effectively
- Depleted - reduced
- Ipso facto - used to say that it is reasonable to state or believe something based on facts that are already known
- Constitute - to legally establish or make something
- Overreach - to fail by trying to achieve more than you can manage
- Landmark - an important stage in something's development
- Emphasising - give special importance or value to something
- Absolve - declare (someone) free from guilt or punishment
- Decisive - able to make decisions quickly and confidently
Topic 2 : "Regime change in Brazil"
- Regime - government
- Coup - a sudden, violent, and illegal seizure of power from a government
- Senate - the smaller upper assembly in the US, US states, France, and other countries
- Impeachment - to make a formal statement saying that a public official is guilty of a serious offence in connection with their job
- Limbo - an uncertain situation that you cannot control and in which there is no progress or improvement
- Weather - to deal successfully with a difficult situation or a problem
- Cope - to deal successfully with a difficult situation
- Enormous - very large in size
- Ill-prepared - not ready or prepared for something
- Counter-productive - having the opposite of the desired effect
- Pervasive - spreading widely throughout an area or a group of people
- Warrant - to make a particular activity necessary
- Ineptitude - lack of skill, ability, or competence
- Implicated - to show that someone is involved in a crime or partly responsible for something bad that has happened
- Ironically - in a way that is different or opposite from the result you would expect
- Scandal - an action or event regarded as morally or legally wrong and causing general public outrage
- Probe - a thorough investigation into a crime or other matter
- Rescue - save (someone) from a dangerous or difficult situation
- Stabilise - to become fixed or stops changing
- Mandate - an official order to do something
- Protest - a statement or action expressing disapproval of or objection to something
- Credible - convincing
- Afresh - in a new or different way
- Elite - the richest, most powerful, best-educated, or best-trained group in a society
- Manoeuvring - the action of cleverly planning something to get an advantage
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