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Topic 1 : "Cleaning up cricket"
Topic 2 : "A Total Campdown"
- Significance - the quality of being worthy of attention / importance
- Intervention - to intentionally become involved in a difficult situation in order to improve it or prevent it from getting worse
- Trumps - to beat someone or something by doing or producing something better
- Marred - spoiled
- Activism - the use of direct and noticeable action to achieve a result, usually a political or social one
- Revamp - give new and improved form, structure, or appearance to something
- Sweeping - affecting many things or people
- Reforms - make changes in something in order to improve it
- Conflicts - serious disagreements or arguments
- Tenure - the holding of an office
- Fiefdom - an area or type of activity that is controlled by someone
- Ills - bad things
- Patronage - the support given to an organization by someone
- Stem from something - to start or develop as the result of something
- Office-bearer - a person holding a position of authority in an organization
- Cooling-off period - the time gap between a series of events
- Bloated - excessive in size or amount
- Apex - the highest point of something
- Unfettered - not limited by rules or any other controlling influence
- Micromanagement - to control every part of a situation, even small details
- Irrespective - without considering
- Transparent - open and honest, without secrets
- Accountable - someone who is accountable is completely responsible for what they do and must be able to give a satisfactory reason for it
- Manner - the way in which something is done
- Infusion - the act of adding one thing to another to make it stronger or better
- Assortment - a group of different types of something
- Shadowy - used to refer to something very less known
- Capitalise - take the chance to gain advantage from something
- Scandal - an action or event regarded as morally or legally wrong and causing general public outrage
- Unsavoury - unpleasant, or morally offensive
- Aspect - a particular part or feature of something
- Gain ground - become more popular or accepted
- Cosy - comfortable and pleasant
- Grave - seriously bad
- Conflict - disagreement between people with opposing opinions or principles
- Plagued - to cause worry, pain, or difficulty to someone or something over a period of time
- Take a hard line against something - to be very serious in the way that you deal with someone or something
- Malpractices - failure to act correctly or legally when doing your job, often causing injury or loss
- Indisputable - unable to be challenged or denied
- Cavils - to make unreasonable complaints, especially about things that are not important
- Thrust - push suddenly or violently in a specified direction
- Significant - important or noticeable
- Proponent - a person who speaks publicly in support of a particular idea or plan of action
Topic 2 : "A Total Campdown"
- Clampdown - a sudden action taken by a government or people in authority to stop or limit a particular activity
- Disruption - to prevent something, especially a system, process, or event, from continuing as usual or as expected
- Valley - a low area of land between hills or mountains
- Conveyed - to express a thought, feeling, or idea so that it is understood by other people
- Poignantly - causing or having a very sharp feeling of sadness
- On account of something - because of something
- Prevailing situation - current situation
- Curfew - a rule that everyone must stay at home between particular times, usually at night, especially during a war or a period of political trouble
- Ill-advised - not wise, and likely to cause problems in the future
- Vicious - deliberately cruel or violent
- Suffocating - preventing something or someone from improving or developing in a positive way
- Avenue - way
- To voice - to say your opinion on something
- Condemning - to criticize something or someone strongly, usually for moral reasons
- Clampdown - a sudden action taken by a government or people in authority to stop or limit a particular activity
- Assault - a violent attack
- Miscommunication - failure to communicate ideas or intentions successfully
- Thwart - to stop something from happening or someone from doing something
- Mobilisation - to assemble military services
- Inhibit - to prevent someone from doing something by making them feel nervous or embarrassed
- Shrug off something - to treat something as if it is not important or not a problem
- Freeze - to stop something
- Impressionable - easily influenced by other people
- Clampdown - a sudden action taken by a government or people in authority to stop or limit a particular activity
- Reinforces - to make something stronger
- Siege - the surrounding of a place by an armed force in order to defeat those defending it
- Slow boil - getting angry slowly
- Protests - an occasion when people show that they disagree with something by standing somewhere, shouting, carrying signs, etc
- Spontaneous - happening or done in a natural, often sudden way, without any planning or without being forced
- Injury - physical harm or damage to someone's body caused by an accident or an attack
- Refuge - (a place that gives) protection or shelter from danger, trouble, unhappiness, etc
- Platitudes - a remark or statement, especially one with a moral content, that has been used too often to be interesting or thoughtful
- Evasion - the act of avoiding something or someone
- Death toll - the number of deaths resulting from a particular cause
- Threatening - risky
- Indiscriminately - in a way that does not show care or judgement
- Pellets - small metal objects that are shot from some types of gun
- Essentials - basic things that you cannot live without
- Disrupt - to prevent something, especially a system, process, or event, from continuing as usual or as expected
- Inhumanly - cruel and causing suffering to people
- Succour - help given to someone, especially someone who is suffering or in need
- Ailing - experiencing difficulty and problems
- Distressed - upset or worried
- Countenance - to approve of or give support to something
- Prospect - the possibility that something good might happen in the future
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