English Vocabulary from
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Topic 1 : "Rescuing the Syrian truce deal"
- Rescuing - save (someone) from a dangerous or difficult situation
- Truce - a short interruption in a war or argument, or an agreement to stop fighting or arguing for a period of time
- Violence - actions or words that are intended to hurt people
- Collapsed - to suddenly fail or stop existing
- Spectator - someone who watches a public activity or event
- Strife - fighting or disagreement between people or groups
- Spiralled - to continuously become worse
- Regime - government
- Rebel - someone who tries to remove a government or leader using force
- Hostility - opposition to something
- Setback - a problem that delays or that stops progress or makes a situation worse
- Ceasefire - an agreement to stop fighting for a period of time, especially in order to discuss permanent peace
- Advance - an improvement or development in something
- Negotiations - formal discussions in which people or groups try to reach an agreement, especially in a business or political situation
- Immaterial - not important or relevant
- Violated - to do something that is in opposition to a law, agreement, principle etc
- Contradictory - contradictory statements, information, ideas, or beliefs disagree with each other and cannot both or all be true
- Blame - to say that someone or something is responsible for an accident, problem, or bad situation
- Convoy - a group of vehicles or ships travelling together, often with other vehicles or ships providing protection for them
- Amid - in the middle of or surrounded by something
- Allegation - a statement that someone has done something wrong or illegal even though this has not been proved
- Havoc - a situation in which there is a lot of damage or destruction
- Bombardment - an attack on a place made by dropping bombs from planes or by firing large guns for a long time
- Impediment - something that makes progress, movement, or achieving something difficult or impossible
- Truce - an agreement between two people or groups involved in a war, fight, or disagreement to stop it for a period of time
- Massacre - the action of killing of a lot of people
- Isolate - to keep someone in a place away from other people
- Cliché - a phrase or idea that is boring because people use it a lot and it is no longer original
Topic 2 : "The SAARC gambit"
- Gambit - something that you say or do in an attempt to gain an advantage
- Pull out - to stop being involved in an activity, event, or situation
- Farce - a situation or event that is silly because it is very badly organized, unsuccessful, or unfair
- Protocols - a set of rules for the correct way to behave on formal occasions
- Pursued - to follow a course of activity
- Overshadowed - to be a negative feature or influence that spoils something
- Courtesies - polite behaviour, or a polite action or remark
- Custom - something that people do that is traditional or usual
- Host - someone who invites people to a meal or party
- Prompting - the act of trying to make someone say / do something
- Final Straw - the last in a series of unpleasant events that finally makes you feel that you cannot continue to accept a bad situation
- Condemn - to say publicly that you think someone or something is bad or wrong
- Galvanising - to shock or affect someone enough to produce a strong and immediate reaction
- Diplomatically - in a way that does not cause offence
- Isolate - to keep someone from othes by putting them in a different place
- Boycott - to not take part in an event
- Pyrrhic - a victory that is not worth winning because you lost a lot in order to achieve it
- Derailed - to prevent something from continuing in the way that it was planned
- Abysmally - extremely bad or low in quality
- Intra-regional - within one region of a country
- Precisely - clearly / exactly
- Bilateral - involving two groups / countries
- Subcontinent - a large area of land that forms part of a continent, especially the part of Asia that contains the countries of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh
- Poverty - the condition of being extremely poor
- Alleviation - to reduce a bad situation
- Intermittent - happening sometimes but not regularly or often
- Prevailing - existing at a particular time or in a particular place
- Mistrust - a feeling that you should not trust someone or something
- Multilateral - involving three or more groups
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