English Vocabulary from
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Topic 1 : "Steering India to safer roads"
Topic 2 : "Growing unrest in France"
- Steering - to take something in the direction in which you want it
- Epidemic - a particular problem that seriously affects many people at the same time (disease)
- Crisis - a time of great difficulty or danger
- Antiquated - old-fashioned or outdated
- Affirming - to state something as true
- Significantly - in a way that is easy to see or by a large amount
- Injury - physical harm or damage to someone's body caused by an accident or an attack
- Accurate - exact
- Hospitalisation - the act of taking someone to hospital and keeping them there for treatment
- Underestimated - estimate (something) to be smaller or less important than it really is
- Undertaking - a formal pledge or promise to do something
- Fatal - causing death
- Steadily - calmly and in a controlled way
- Absolute - very great or to the largest degree possible
- Fatality - an occurrence of death by accident, in war, or from disease
- Annual - occurring once every year
- Calamitous - a serious accident or bad event causing damage or suffering
- Emergency - a serious, unexpected, and often dangerous situation requiring immediate action
- vulnerable - able to be easily physically, emotionally, or mentally hurt, influenced, or attacked
- Pedestrians - a person who is walking, especially in an area where vehicles go
- Compelled - force someone to do something
- Fast-paced - happening very quickly
- Legislation - the process of making laws
- Archaic - very old or old-fashioned.
- Composite - something that is made of various different parts
- Civic - relating to a city or town, especially its administration; municipal
- Infrastructure - the basic physical and organizational structures and facilities (e.g. buildings, roads, power supplies) needed for the operation of a society
- Unlikely - not the same as you would usually expect
- Envisaged - form a mental picture of (something not yet existing or known)
- Empowered - to give someone official authority or the freedom to do something
- Oversight - responsibility for a job or activity and for making sure it is being done correctly
- Monitoring - observing and checking the progress or quality of something
- Roadworthiness - ability of a vehicle to be in a suitable operating condition for safe driving
- Monopoly - complete control of something, especially an area of business, so that others have no share
- Distressing - upsetting
- Prognosis - a statement of what is judged likely to happen in the future
- Determined - having made a strong decision and decided not to change it
Topic 2 : "Growing unrest in France"
- Unrest - disagreements or fighting between different groups of people
- Strikes - attacks
- Left-leaning - sympathetic to the left in politics
- Unprecedented - never done or known before
- Abandon - to leave
- Reform - to make an improvement, especially by changing the structure of something
- Decree - an official statement that something must happen
- Negotiate - to have formal discussions with someone in order to reach an agreement with them
- Severance - money paid by an employer to an employee whose job the employer has had to bring to an end
- Downsize - make something smaller
- Workforce - the group of people who work in a company, industry, country, etc
- Overhauling - to repair or improve something so that every part of it works as it should
- Spur - to encourage an activity or development or make it happen faster
- Stalled - stopped
- Hovers - to stand somewhere
- Stubbornly - difficult to move, change, or deal with
- Jump-start - to improve a situation by taking a particular action
- Accomplish - achieve or complete successfully
- Antagonising - to make someone dislike you or feel opposed to you
- Ally - someone who helps and supports
- Vowed - promised
- Egalitarianism - believing that all people are equally important and should have the same rights and opportunities in life
- Constituency - a group of voters in a specified area who elect a representative to a legislative body
- Betrayed - cheated
- Demonstrated - clearly showed
- Protests - a strong complaint expressing disagreement, disapproval, or opposition
- Unilaterally - involving only one group or country
- Rift - a serious break in friendly relations
- Trigger - an event that causes something bad to start
- Delicate - a situation that needs to be dealt with carefully in order to avoid trouble
- Emergency - a serious, unexpected, and often dangerous situation requiring immediate action
- Heightened - to increase or make something increase
- Scenario - situation
- The last thing the country needs - something that the country do not want
- Showdown - an important argument that is aimed to end a disagreement that has existed for a long time
- High-handedness - using power or authority more forcefully than is needed, without thinking about the feelings or wishes of other people
- Unilateralism - the process of acting, reaching a decision without consulting others
- Subsidy - money given as part of the cost of something, to help or encourage it to happen
- Amid - surrounded by / in the middle of
- Stalled - stopped
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