English Vocabulary from
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Topic 1 : "Poverty and the death row"
- Poverty - the state of being extremely poor
- Death row - in prison and waiting to be killed as a punishment for a crime
- Opposition - strong disagreement
- Penalty - punishment
- Rooted in something - to be based on something or caused by something
- Irreversibility - not possible to change (impossible to return to a previous condition)
- Victims - people harmed, injured, or killed as a result of a crime, accident, or other event or action
- Context - piont of view (the situation within which something exists or happens)
- Ethnic - relating to a particular race of people
- Linguistic - connected with language or the study of language
- Affinity - a liking or sympathy for someone or something, especially because of similar characteristics
- Clemency - mercy (kindness when giving a punishment)
- Compelling - if a reason, argument, etc. is compelling, it makes you believe it or accept it because it is so strong
- Offender - a person who commits an illegal act
- Juvenile - a young person
- Salutary - causing improvement of behaviour or character
- Execution - the legal punishment of killing someone
- Vulnerable - weak
- Bias - the action of supporting or opposing a particular person or thing in an unfair way
- Digressed - to leave the main subject temporarily
- Prejudice - an unfair and unreasonable opinion or feeling, especially when formed without enough thought or knowledge
- Instance - incident (example)
- Commuting - to change a punishment to one that is less serious
- Doctrine - a belief or set of beliefs, especially political or religious ones, that are taught and accepted by a particular group
- Mob - a large angry crowd (group of people)
- Frenzy - uncontrolled and excited behaviour or emotion that is sometimes violent
- Cognisant - having knowledge or awareness
- Inescapable - unable to be avoided
- Remedy - a successful way of dealing with a problem or difficulty
- Abolished - to officially end something
- Reinforce - strengthen or support
- Liberals - people who respect and allow many different types of beliefs or behaviour
- Secularists - people who believe that religion should not be involved with the ordinary social and political activities of a country
- LGBT - Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender
- Contested - to oppose an action as mistaken or wrong
- Isolation - to separate something from other things
- Trial - a formal examination of evidence by a judge
- Hegemony - leadership or dominance
- Stark - complete
- Contrast - difference
- Rendered - to cause someone or something to be in a particular state
- Delegitimise - withdraw authority from
- Dictatorship - government by a dictator (a leader who has complete power in a country and has not been elected by the people)
- To stall - to stop
- Assassin - a person who murders an important person for political or religious reasons
- Blowback - the unexpected and negative results of a political action or situation
- Crucial - extremely important or necessary
- Articulate - able to express thoughts and feelings easily and clearly
- Abdication - failure to fulfil a responsibility or duty
- Extremism - the holding of extreme political or religious views
- Jeopardising - to put (someone or something) into a situation in which there is a danger of loss, harm, or failure
- Rally - recover
- Emboldened - to get the courage or confidence to do something
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