English Vocabulary from
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Topic 1 : "Theresa May’s challenges"
Topic 2 : "Learning to control crowds"
- Majority - the greater number
- 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
- Landscape - all the visible features of an area
- Campaigner - a person who works in an organized and active way towards a goal
- Backed off - to stop being involved in a situation, usually in order to allow other people to deal with it themselves
- Brexiteer - supporter of Brexit (an exit by Britain from the European Union)
- Conservative - not usually liking or trusting change, especially sudden change
- Chaos - a state of total confusion with no order
- Seasoned - having a lot of experience of doing something and therefore knowing how to do it well
- Invoke - to make people remember something
- Oversaw - to watch or organize a job or an activity to make certain that it is being done correctly
- Hard-line - extreme and serious and not likely to change
- Immigration - the act of someone coming to live in a different country
- Cap - limit
- Back - support
- Pragmatic - solving problems in a sensible way that suits the conditions that really exist now, rather than obeying fixed theories, ideas, or rules
- Euroscepticism - criticism of and strong opposition to the European Union (EU)
- Doves - people in politics who prefer to solve problems using peaceful methods instead of force or violence
- Hawks - people who strongly support the use of force in political relationships rather than discussion or other more peaceful solutions
- Uncertainty - not known or fixed / not completely sure
- Unprecedented - never done or known before
- Endorse - support
- Equilibrium - a state in which opposing forces or influences are balanced
- Appease - to prevent further disagreement in arguments by giving to the other side an advantage that they have demanded
- Tories - supporters of the Conservative Party
- Fragile - damaged
- Alarming - worrying or disturbing
- Xenophobia - extreme dislike or fear of foreigners, their customs, their religions, etc
- Threatens - warns
- Cohesion - the situation when the members of a group or society are united
- Trigger - to cause something to start
- Wrath - extreme anger
- Invoke - to use a law in order to achieve something
- Repercussions - the effect that an action, event, or decision has on something, especially a bad effect
- Tall order - a task or job that is difficult to deal with
Topic 2 : "Learning to control crowds"
- Crowd - a large group of people who have come together
- Clash - fight or argument between people
- Brutal - cruel, violent, and completely without feelings
- Tactic - a planned way of doing something
- Spotlight - receiving a lot of public attention
- Violent - using force to hurt or attack
- Protests - an occasion when people show that they disagree with something by standing somewhere, shouting, carrying signs, etc
- Scores of - groups of (large number of)
- Injury - physical harm or damage to someone's body caused by an accident or an attack
- Non-lethal - not deadly (not capable of causing death)
- Pellets - small metal objects that are shot from some types of gun
- Ammunition - objects that can be shot from a weapon, such as bullets or bombs
- Evident - easily seen or understood
- Restraint - calm and controlled behaviour
- Sustained - continuing for a long time
- For instance - for example
- Concluded - to judge or decide something after thinking carefully about it
- Terrifying - to frighten someone very much
- Dushed - done in a hurry
- Valley - an area of low land between hills or mountains
- Tragically - very sad, often involving death and suffering
- Excessive - an amount that is more than acceptable, expected, or reasonable
- Limb - an arm or leg of a person
- Equipped - supply with the necessary items for a particular purpose
- Riot - a violent disturbance of the peace by a crowd
- Encased - covered completely
- Deterrent - a thing that discourages someone from doing something
- Maim - to injure a person so seriously that a part of their body will no longer work as it should
- Life-inhibiting - something that causes death
- Viable - able to work as expected or able to succeed
- Lack of something - something is not available or that there is not enough of it
- Ensure - to make something sure to happen
- Disproportionately - too large or too small in comparison to something else
- Holistic - dealing with or treating the whole of something or someone and not just a part
- Healing - to make or become well again, especially after a cut or other injury
- Expeditiously - quickly
- Administer - to control the operation or arrangement of something
- Adoption - accepting or starting to use something new
- Humane - showing kindness, care, and sympathy towards others, especially those who are suffering
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