English Vocabulary from
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- Strategic - helping to achieve a plan (in business or politics)
- Dignified - having or showing a controlled, serious, and calm manner that is worthy of respect
- Fevered - unnaturally excited or active
- Speculation - the activity of guessing possible answers to a question without having enough information
- Apparent - clearly visible or understood
- Continuance - the state of remaining in existence or operation
- Varied - containing or changing between several different things or types
- Trifling -- unimportant
- Debatable - open to discussion or argument
- Substantive - having a strong basis in reality and so important
- Unwillingness - unable to do something
- Despite - without taking any notice of or being influenced by
- Indisputably - true, impossible to doubt
- Ridiculous - stupid or unreasonable
- Alleged - said by some people, although you have no proof
- Nudged - pushed something or someone gently
- Repercussion - the bad effect that an actio has on something
- Enormous - very large in size
- Credibility - the quality of being trusted and believed in
- Impact - effect / influence
- Portfolio - a particular job or area of responsibility of a member of a government
- Keenly - carefully
- Reputation - the good opinion that people in general have about someone
- Inflation - continuous increase in prices
- Faltering - losing strength
- Climate - the general development of a situation
- Uneasiness - worry or anxiety
- Stemmed - originated / started
- Inflationary - causing price increases
- Moribund - not active or successful
- Crackdown - to start dealing with bad or illegal behaviour in a more serious way
- Evergreening - a variety of legal, business and technological strategies
- Bad loan - a loan which is unlikely to be paid back
- Friction - disagreement or unfriendliness caused by people having different opinions
- Brought down the curtain - to end something
- Successor - a person that comes after another person (in a job)
- Remit - to refer a matter to someone in authority to deal with
- Aspiration - a hope of achieving something
- Imperative - very important / crucial
- Has a free hand in something - * indicates that you are available and willing to provide some kind of help
- Rubber stamp - approve automatically without proper consideration
- Stride - an important positive development
- Turf - the area that a group considers its own
- Elite - most powerful
- Gleaming - shining brightly
- Podium - a raised area on which a person stands to speak to a large number of people, to conduct music, or to receive a prize in a sports competition
- Indicator - something that shows what a situation is
- Shootout - a fight / competition between two groups
- Goalless - without any goals being scored (goal less)
- Commendable - deserving praise
- Culmination - to end with something
- Threatened - warned
- Derail - to prevent a plan or process from succeeding
- Opponent - person who is competing against you in a sports event
- Keep pace with - to make progress, or to achieve something
- Break free - to escape from something
- Strive - make great efforts to achieve or get something
- Conceded - admit or agree that something is true after first denying or resisting it
- Off-day - the day when you do not work
- Stifled - prevented something from happening
- Sheer - completely / nothing other than
- Dint - as a result of something
- Stamina - the physical and/or mental strength to do something difficult
- Willpower - the ability to control your own thoughts and the way in which you behave
- Ragged - not performing well / not in a good condition
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