English Vocabulary from
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Topic 1 : "Opening our skies"
Topic 2 : "A dangerous game"
- Skies - plural of Sky
- Reform - make changes in something, in order to improve it
- Boasted - to speak too proudly or happily about what you have done or what you own
- Aviation - activities related to aircrafts
- Unveiled - announced
- Automatic - done without thinking about it
- On the face of it - without knowing all of the relevant facts
- Domestic - local
- Forge - to make something
- Alliance - an agreement to work with someone else to try to achieve the same thing
- Fray - an energetic and often not well-organized effort
- Hemmed in - to surround in a restrictive manner
- Ventures - a new business activity that involves risk
- Investors - people who provide money to an organization
- Equity - the value of the shares issued by a company
- Substantial - of considerable importance
- Vested - held completely, permanently
- Swift - happening quickly
- Calibrate - to check whether an equipment is working properly or not
- Strife - fighting or disagreement between people or groups
- Stance - a publicly announed openion about something
- Turf - an area that a group / organization considers its own
- Scrapped - discarded or removed something from service / to not continue with a system or plan
- Tripling - increasing three times
- Reform - changes to improve something
- Dovetailed - to join together
- Game changer - something that affects a situation or area of business very much
Topic 2 : "A dangerous game"
- Beyond a shadow of doubt - if you know or believe something beyond a shadow of a doubt, you are sure that it is true
- Allegedly - if someone allegedly does something, another person says that they have done it, even though this has not been proved
- Piece of fiction - a part of the profits or advantages that come from an activity
- Prospects - opportunities
- Affiliation - a connection with a political party or religion, or with a larger organization
- Threat - a situation or an activity that could cause harm or danger
- Extortion - a crime in which someone gets money or information from someone else by using force or warnings
- Mischievous - behavior that will cause trouble / danger
- Exaggeration - making something seem larger, more important, better, or worse than it really is
- Backtracked - to say that you did not mean something you said earlier
- Mischief - damage / harm
- Disregard - ignore / pay no attention to
- Exodus - a situation in which a lot of people leave a place at the same time
- Exacerbated - make (a problem, bad situation, or negative feeling) more worse
- Exhorted - to strongly encourage someone to do something
- Campaign - work in an organized and active way towards a goal
- Plank - an important principle on which the activities of a political group, are based
- Untruth - a lie or false statement
- Take the sting out of something - to make something less unpleasant
- Follow-up - a continuation or repetition of something that has already been started or done
- Thriving - growing / developing
- Mofussil towns - towns lying outside an urban Centre
- Perception - a belief or opinion, often held by many people and based on how things seem
- Riot - a violent disturbance of the peace by a crowd
- Polarisation - to divide a group into two opposing groups
- Consequences - results of a situation
- Phenomenon - an event or situation that can be seen to happen or exist
- Lethal - extremely dangerous
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