English Vocabulary from
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Topic 1 : "Politics of positions"
- Legal - relating to the law
- Casts a dark shadow on something - to spoil a good situation with something unpleasant
- Withholding - to refuse to give something
- Assent - the expression of approval or agreement
- Incurring - experience something unpleasant
- Flagrant - shocking because it is easy to observe
- Accusing - saying that someone has done something wrong / illegal
- Motive - a reason for doing something
- Granting - agreeing to give or allow (something requested)
- Cites - to mention something as proof
- Prevailing - existing at a particular time / current
- Allies - people who helps and supports you
- Politicise - to make something or someone political
- Reluctant - not willing to do something and therefore slow to do it
- Retrospective - looking back on or dealing with past events or situations
- Pre-empting - take action in order to prevent something happening
- Contends - to say that something is true
- Perquisites - advantages
- Ought to - have to
- Canvass - to try to get political support or votes
- Evolved - developed slowly
- Remunerates - to pay someone for work or services
- Appointee - someone who has been chosen officially for a job or responsibility
- Essentially - necessary or needed (a basic thing that you need)
- Struck down - to declare (a law) illegal
- Breaching - an act of breaking a law, promise, agreement
- Ensure - to make something sure to happen
Topic 2 : "To be or not to be"
- Referendum - a vote in which all the people in a country or an area are asked to give their opinion about or decide an important political or social question
- Implication - the conclusion that can be drawn from something although it is not directly stated
- Neck- and-neck race - a race inwhich participants are so close or similar that it's impossible to tell who's going to win
- Poll tracker - a person who asks the same set of questions to a small group of people repeatedly over time to measure how their opinions, needs, etc. change
- Resentment - to feel angry because you have been forced to accept someone or something that you do not like
- Tories - supporters of the Conservative Party
- Exploit - make full use of something
- Brexit - an exit (= act of leaving) by Britain from the European Union (short for "British exit")
- Owing to - because of
- Blame - to say that someone or something is responsible for a fault or wrong
- Immigration - the act of someone coming to live in a different country
- Migrant - a person who moves from one place to another in order to find work or better living conditions
- Hollow - without real significance or value
- Rhetoric - speech or writing intended to be effective and influence people
- On the other hand - in a way that is different from the first thing you mentioned
- Assesses - calculate or estimate the price or value of
- Instability - uncertainty caused by a sudden change in the present situation
- Negotiate - to have formal discussions with someone in order to reach an agreement with them
- Impact - a powerful effect
- Concession - a thing that is granted, especially in response to demands
- Unlikely - not the same as you would usually expect
- Powerhouse - a country, organization, or person with a lot of influence, power, or energy
- Domino effect - the situation in which something (usually something bad) happens, causing other similar events to happen
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