English Vocabulary from
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Topic 1 : "The censor is snipped"
Topic 2 : "Microsoft’s new link"
- Snipped - cut (something) with scissors
- Handed out something - to give something to each person in a group or place
- Scissor-happy - using scissors and then cut something up that you shouldn’t
- Overzealous - someone who gets too excited about something
- Disclaimer - a formal statement saying that you are not legally responsible for something
- Exercised - applied / used
- In line with - similar to, or at the same level as something
- Provisions - the act of providing something
- Mandate - an official order to do something
- Impulse - a sudden strong wish to do something
- Candid - truthful and straightforward / frank
- Take something out of context - to use only part of something, so that the original meaning is changed
- Guardian of the honour - a person who protects the honour of somebody
- Umbrage - to feel upset or annoyed (because you feel that someone has been rude or shown no respect to you)
- Portrayal - to represent or describe someone or something in a painting, film, book
- Prevailing - existing at a particular time / current
- Widespread - existing or happening in many places and/or among many people
- Addiction - the need or strong desire to do or to have something (especially drugs / alcohol / smoking etc)
- Besetting - having a lot of trouble with something
- Vice - a moral fault or weakness in someone's character
- Vague - not clearly expressed
- Routinely - used for describing what often or usually happens
- Invoked - to use a law in order to achieve something
- Choke - to make movement difficult or impossible
- Offensive - causing someone to feel upset / annoyed
- Grain - a very small piece of something
- Curb - to control or limit something that is not wanted
- Detractors - a person who disparages someone or something
- Allege - to say that someone has done something illegal or wrong without giving proof
- Dispensation - exemption from a rule or usual requirement
- Guilty - responsible for breaking a law
- Succumbing - to accept defeat
- Extensive - covering or affecting a large area
- Altering - changing
- Reforming - making changes in something
- Acquired - obtained
- Urgency - needing attention very soon
Topic 2 : "Microsoft’s new link"
- Earnest - completely serious
- Relevance - the relation of something to the matter
- Monopoly - (an organization or group that has) complete control of something, especially an area of business, so that others have no share
- Sector - area / part
- Altered - changed
- Contour - an outline representing the shape of something
- Look beyond - to think or plan further than someone or something
- Legacy - something that is a part of your history or that remains from an earlier time
- Reconcile - restore friendly relations between
- Sizeable - very large
- Slipped - to move out of the correct position
- Cliché - something that is very often made and is therefore not original and not interesting
- Me-too - a company's me-too product is one that is designed to be similar to a very popular product made by another company
- Acquisition - the process of getting something
- Eventually - in the end
- Critics - people who says that they do not approve of someone or something
- Optimistic - hopeful and confident about the future
- Emphasis - special importance / value given to something
- High-profile - attracting much attention or publicity
- Subscription - an amount of money that you pay regularly to receive a product or service
- Essentially - necessary or needed
- Thrive - to grow, develop, or be successful
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