English Vocabulary from
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Topic 1 : "State of the Congress campaign"
Topic 2 : "They are the world"
- Campaign - work in an organized and active way towards a goal
- Roll through - to be at attendance at an event
- In advance of something - before something
- Keep the spotlight on something - to attract attention to something
- Flutter - a short period of excited activity
- Rural Folk - people of the countryside
- Sit around - to spend time sitting down and doing nothing
- Informally - not officially
- Took off - to remove something
- Subsequent - happening after something else
- Wisecrack - a joke or clever remark that upsets or annoys you
- Flight - an act of escape, running away, or avoiding something
- Dovetailed - to fit together, or to work together well
- Acute - very serious
- Distress - a feeling of extreme worry, sadness, or pain
- Amplify - to increase the size or effect of something
- Freebie - something that is given to you as a free gift, especially as a way of attracting your support for or interest in something
- Charpoy - a bed used especially in India consisting of a frame strung with tapes or light rope
- Flamboyant - very confident in behaviour, and liking to be noticed by other people, for example because of the way you dress, talk, etc
- Dupe - to deceive / cheat someone
- Defaulters - peopple who does not pay interest or other money that they owe
- Pot shot - a criticism that is rather unfair or that is made only to make someone look bad
- Indiscriminate - done without considering who or what you harm or damage
- Foes - enemies
- Strategy - a detailed plan for achieving success in situations such as war, politics, business, industry, or sport
- Calibrated - adjusted
- Succeeding - to achieve something that you have been aiming for
- Avowed - publicly claimed or promised
- Backing - supporting
- Primary - most important
- Spokesperson - someone whose job is to officially represent an organization, for example in dealing with journalists
- Electorate - all the people who are allowed to vote in an election
- Aspiration - something that you want to achieve
- Roadshows - a series of public events, each of which happens in a different place
- Obvious - easy to see, recognize, or understand
- Mobilisation - a group of people coming together in order to achieve something
- Uncertain - not clearly known or understood
- Fare better - performed better
- For instance - for example
- Giant - a very successful and powerful person or organization
- Witless - stupid or showing no intelligence
- Moderating - to make something less serious
- Unveil - to announce something officially that was previously a secret
- Cohesive - combining well to form a strong well-organized unit
- Inclusive - an inclusive group or organization tries to include many different types of people and treat them all fairly and equally
- Manifesto - a formal statement expressing the aims and plans of a group or organization, especially a political party
Topic 2 : "They are the world"
- Finding - a piece of information that is discovered during an official examination of a problem, situation, or object
- Uprooted - to remove a person from their home or usual environment
- Crisis - a time of great disagreement, confusion, or suffering
- Refugee - someone who leaves their country, especially during a war or other threatening event
- Migrant - someone who travels to another place or country in order to find work
- Grimmer - unpleasant and worrier
- Displaced - to force something or someone out of its usual or original position
- Fled - to escape by running away, especially because of danger or fear
- Starkness - seriousness
- Brutal - extremely violent
- Impact - an effect / influence
- Segment - part
- Little - a small amount (almost nothing)
- Conflict - angry disagreement between people or groups
- Vulnerable - weak or easy to hurt physically or mentally
- Landmark - a major event or achievement that marks an important stage in a process and makes progress possible
- Ruling - an official decision made by a court or by someone in a position of authority
- Conscription - the process of making people join the armed forces
- Tribunal - a special court or group of people who are officially chosen, especially by the government, to examine (legal) problems of a particular type
- Rebel - someone who tries to remove a government or leader using force
- Armed group - a group of people carrying weapons, especially guns
- Conviction - a decision by a court of law that someone is guilty of a crime
- Warlord - a military leader who controls a country or, more often, an area within a country
- Against the backdrop of something - to describe what’s going on in the background or surrounding context when something else happens
- Dramatic - sudden and surprising
- Halving - to reduce something to half its original size, number, or amount
- Infant mortality - the death of children under the age of one year
- Trafficking - the activity of buying and selling goods or people illegally
- Exploitation - unfair treatment of someone
- Overshadowed - to be a negative feature or influence that spoils something
- Portending - to be a sign or warning of something that will happen
- Paradoxically - used for saying that something is strange because it is the opposite of what you expect
- Comprehensive - including many details of something
- Swift - happening quickly or immediately
- Sweeping - affecting many things or people; large
- Unlikely - not going to happen
- Yield - to produce
- Tangible - important and noticeable
- Scarce - not easy to find or get
- Underlying - used to describe something on which something else is based
- Compelling - interesting or exciting enough to keep your attention completely
- Realpolitik - politics based on practical ideas rather than moral ideas
- Impede - to make it more difficult for someone to do something
- Evident - easy to see, notice, or understand
- Combating - to do something in order to try to stop something bad from happening or a bad situation from becoming worse
- Delineation - to describe something in a simple way
- Antecedents - someone or something existing or happening before, especially as the cause or origin of something existing or happening later:
- Dispense - to provide something such as a service, especially officially
- Pragmatic - involving practical results rather than theories and ideas
- Prima facie - based on what seems to be true, before a situation has been examined in detail
- Imperative - extremely important or urgent
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