English Vocabulary from
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Topic 1 : "Sharing without caring"
Topic 2 : "The ceasefire in Syria"
Topic 1 : "Sharing without caring"
- Trump - any advantage held in reserve until needed
- Cauvery - a river in south India (Kaveri)
- Dispute - a serious disagreement
- Turning out - developing in a perticular way
- Irrigation - to supply land with water so that crops and plants will grow
- Linguistic Chauvinism - a belief that your own language is best and more important than any other language
- Mindless - mindless people do not think about what they are doing
- Former - used for referring to the first of two people or things that you have mentioned
- Latter - used for referring to the second of two people, things, or groups that have just been mentioned
- Distress - a feeling that you have when you are very unhappy, worried, or upset
- Deficit - a lack of a quality (very less than you needed)
- Perpetuated - to make something such as a situation or process continue, especially one that is wrong, unfair, or dangerous
- Chauvinistic - someone who believes that their own country, race, sex, or group is better than any other
- Fringe - the less important part of an area, group, or activity
- Farming - the activity of a being a farmer
- Insufficient - not enough
- Fulfil - to reach a particular standard, or to have the qualities that are necessary for something
- Portray - to show or describe something in a particular way
- Pits - to make you have very strong unpleasant feelings or in which something bad is happening
- Indeed - used for adding a statement that supports and increases the effect of what you have just said
- To take different stands - to publicly express different opinions
- Conciliatory - trying to end an argument and make people feel less angry
- Defusing - to make a difficult or dangerous situation calmer by reducing or removing its cause
- Crisis - an urgent, difficult, or dangerous situation
- Inflame - to make a situation worse by making people more angry or excited
- Passions - a powerful emotion such as love or anger
- Inter-State - existing or taking place between states
- Raging - happening with a lot of force or violence
- Controversy - a lot of disagreement or argument about something, usually because it affects or is important to many people
- Confrontation - a fight or argument
- Linguistic - related to the language
- Stipulated - to say what is allowed or what is necessary
- Tribunal - a special law court organized to judge a particular case
- To monitor - to watch and check a situation carefully for a period of time in order to discover something about it
- Plaything - an object used for pleasure or enjoyment, such as a child's toy:
- Marauding - going from one place to another killing or using violence, stealing, and destroying
- Mobsters - someone who is a member of a criminal organization
- Laid down - to state officially what someone must do or how they must do it
- Hostage - a person who is the prisoner of someone who threatens to kill them if they do not get what they want
- Parochial - not interested in things that do not affect your local area directly
Topic 2 : "The ceasefire in Syria"
- Ceasefire - an agreement to stop fighting for a period of time, especially in order to discuss permanent peace
- Perhaps - used for saying that you are not certain about something
- Civil war - a war fought between different groups of people within the same country
- Regime - a government that controls a country, especially in a strict or unfair way
- Rebel - someone who tries to remove a government or leader using force
- Intervention - a situation in which someone becomes involved in a particular issue, problem etc in order to influence what happens
- Statehood - the status of a place as an independent country
- Sceptical - having doubts about something
- Conflict - angry disagreement between people or groups
- Escalating - to become much worse or more serious, or to make something do this
- Full-blown - in its most complete and developed form
- Albeit - although (used for introducing a comment that slightly changes or reduces the effect of what you said before it)
- Bolstered - to make something stronger or more effective
- On the verge of something - about to do something or experience something
- Collapse - to suddenly fail or stop existing
- Stronghold - a place where the majority of people have the same political or religious beliefs
- Shrunk - to become smaller in size
- Unbeatable - impossible to defeat in a competition
- Bloodshed - a situation in which people are killed or injured, especially during fighting
- Prompted - to cause something to happen or be done
- Play down - to try to make a problem or difficult situation seem less important than it is
- Prospects - the possibility that something will happen, especially something good
- Staunch - loyal, and showing strong belief in something or strong support for something
- Transitional - temporary
- Halt - a temporary or permanent stop in a process
- Uneasiness - worry or anxiety
- Stubbornness - difficult to deal with
- Unified - behaving or treated as one group
- Affiliate - to have a connection with or support a larger organization or group
- Singled out - to choose one person or thing from a group for special attention, especially criticism or praise
- Uncertain - not clearly known or understood
- Overshadow - to be a negative feature or influence that spoils something
- Significance - importance
- Established - having existed for a long time, and therefore recognized as good or successful
- Horror - a very strong feeling of shock, fear caused by something extremely unpleasant
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