English Vocabulary from
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Topic 1 : "Apple’s tax troubles"
Topic 2 : "The message from Shahabuddin"
- Hefty - large and heavy
- Back taxes - taxes that have been unpaid in the year that they were due
- Imposed - to officially force a rule, tax, punishment, etc. to be obeyed or received
- Quest - an attempt to achieve something difficult
- Crack down - to start dealing with bad or illegal behaviour in a more severe way
- Avoidance - the act of avoiding something or someone
- Unprecedented - never having happened or existed before
- Giant - a very large and successful company
- Triggered - to make something happen
- Outburst - a sudden forceful expression of emotion, especially anger
- Transatlantic - between countries on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean
- Ruling - a decision
- Multinational - a large company that has offices, shops, or factories in several countries
- Diplomacy - the profession or skill of preserving or creating friendly relationships between countries
- Alleges - to say that something is true or that someone has done something wrong or illegal, even though this has not been proved
- Ultra-low - extremely low
- Violation - an action that is in opposition to a law, agreement, principle etc
- Aid - money, food, or other help that an organization or government gives to a country or area where people need it
- Curiously - in an unusual and interesting way
- Possibility - the chance that something might happen or be true
- Clawing - attacking
- Prospect - the possibility that something will happen
- Thriving - very successful
- Subsidiary - a company that is owned by a larger company
- On the other hand - used for giving two different opinions about something
- Implies - if one thing implies another thing, the other thing is likely to exist or be true
- Pique - a feeling of anger, especially caused by someone damaging your feeling of being proud of yourself
- Chunk - a large amount or part of something
- Eventually - at the end of a process or period of time in which many things happen
- Coffer - the supply of money that an organization has available to spend
- Stumbling block - a difficulty that causes mistakes or prevents progress
- Regulatory - a regulatory organization or company controls an activity, process, or industry
- Loophole - a small mistake in an agreement or law that gives someone the chance to avoid having to do something
- Exploit - to use a situation so that you get benefit from it, even if it is wrong or unfair to do this
- Indefinitely - for a period of time that has no fixed end
- Levy - an amount of money, such as a tax, that you have to pay to a government or organization
- Repatriate - to send money that you earn in a foreign country back to your own country
- Incentive - something that encourages a person to do something
- Firm - a business or company
- Retain - to keep someone or something
- Curb - to control or limit something that is harmful
- So-called - used for showing that you think a word used for describing someone or something is not suitable
- Inversion - a change that makes something the opposite of what it was before
- Manoeuvre - a clever or dishonest action that you do to get something that you want
- Benign - pleasant and kind
- Legislation - a law, or a set of laws
- Backed by - supported by
- Combat - fight
- Cross-border - between different countries, or involving people from different countries
- Juncture - a particular point in time
- Irritant - something that annoys you
- Endeavour - an effort to do something, especially something new or difficult
Topic 2 : "The message from Shahabuddin"
- Embodies - to include something
- Contradictions - differences
- Alliance - an arrangement between two or more people, groups, or countries by which they agree to work together to achieve something
- Symbolised - to be considered as a typical or perfect example of something
- Indeed - used to express that something is correct
- Took over - to take control of something (job)
- Intent - the intention to do something
- Defied - to refuse to obey someone or something
- Enforcing - to make sure that a law or rule is obeyed by people
- Writ - an official document that tells someone to do something or to stop doing something
- Constituency - a division of a country that elects a representative to a parliament
- Roaming - moving freely over a wide area
- Veiled - not direct but is easily understood
- Snide - deliberately unkind in an indirect way
- Campaign - a series of actions intended to produce political or social change
- Plank - an important aspect of something, on which it is based
- Ousted - to remove someone from a position of power
- Speak/talk the same language - to have the same ideas and attitudes as someone else
- Speak a different language - to change your ideas and say exact opposite to whoat you said earlier
- Nonsense - ideas, behaviour, or statements that are not true or sensible
- Offending - causing a problem
- Pursuing - to follow a course of activity
- Comfort zone - a situation in which you feel comfortable and in which your ability and determination are not being tested
- Acutely - used for emphasizing that a feeling, often an unpleasant one, is very strong
- Drive a wedge between somebody - to damage the good relationship that two people or groups of people have
- For the sake of somenone - in order to help or bring advantage to someone
- Survival - the fact or state of continuing to live or exist, especially in difficult conditions
- Circumstance - a fact or condition that affects a situation
- Endorsement - an occasion when someone gives official or public support to a particular person or thing
- Prominent - important and well known
- Semblance - a situation or condition that is similar to what is wanted or expected, but is not exactly as hoped for
- Striking - attracting your interest or attention because of some unusual feature
- Driven home - to state something in a very forceful and effective way
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