English Vocabulary from
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Topic 1 : "A disruptive debut"
Topic 2 : "The terror in the Philippines"
Topic 1 : "A disruptive debut"
- Disruptive - causing trouble and therefore stopping something from continuing as usual
- Debut - the occasion when someone performs or presents something to the public for the first time:
- Roll-out - to make a new product, service, or system available for the first time
- Anticipated - to imagine or expect that something will happen
- Specifics - exact details
- Ambitious - if a plan or idea is ambitious, it needs a great amount of skill and effort to be successful or be achieved
- Acquisition - the process of getting something
- Unveiled - to announce something officially that was previously a secret
- Audacious - done with extreme confidence
- Domestic - local (relating to a person's own country)
- Roaming - the ability to use your mobile phone when you are travelling, without having to make long-distance or international phone calls
- Tariff - charges
- Entrant - a company that starts selling a particular product or service, or selling in a particular place, for the first time
- In one fell swoop - if you do something in one fell swoop, you do it all at the same time
- Altered - changed
- Foreseeable future - future, that can easily be imagined or known about before it happens
- Ended up - to finally be in a particular place or situation
- Spotlight - a lot of public attention
- Affordability - the state of being cheap enough for people to be able to buy
- Pertinent - relevant to something
- Leverage - power to influence people and get the results you want
- Explosive growth - very sudden growth
- Significantly - in a way that is relevant or that has an important effect on something
- Alter - to make something different
- Benchmark - a level of quality that can be used as a standard when comparing other things
- Consumer - a person who buys goods or services for their own use
- Proposition - an offer or suggestion, usually in business
- Sticky - a business where people like to spend a long time
- Bundling - the act of selling several products or services together
- Reliability - the ability to be depended on
- Rival - a person, team, or business that competes with another
- Strategic - carefully planned in order to achieve a particular goal
- Scenario - a situation that could possibly happen
- Opt to - make a choice from a range of possibilities
- Inevitable - sure to happen and unable to be avoided or prevented
- Knock - damage / harm
- Churn - rapid and continuing movement and change
- Unlikely - not likely to happen
- Impaired - damaged or weakened
- Absorb - to take something in
- Player - someone who is very involved in an activity or organization
- Leeway - freedom to act within particular limits
- Disruption - an interruption in the usual way that a system, process, or event works
Topic 2 : "The terror in the Philippines"
- Terror - violent action that causes extreme fear
- Unfair - not treating people in an equal way, or not morally right
- Premature - happening too soon or before the usual time
- Strongman - a political leader who rules by force
- Throwback - a person or thing that is similar to an earlier type
- Brutal - extremely violent
- Dictatorship - government by someone who takes power by force and does not allow elections
- Sustained - continuing at the same level or rate for a long time
- Spectacular - extremely impressive
- Trickle-down - a situation in which something that starts in the high parts of a system spreads to the whole of the system
- Hot spot - a place where there is often a lot of violence or fighting
- Investors - a person / organization who puts money into something in order to make a profit or get an advantage:
- Landslide - the winning of an election with an extremely large number of votes
- Brusque - speaking quickly in an unfriendly way using very few words
- Paverick - an independent person who has ideas and behaviour that are very different from other people’s
- Moderate - to make something acceptable to a large number of people
- Populist - representing or relating to the ideas and opinions of ordinary people
- Rhetoric - a style of speaking or writing that is intended to influence people
- Belied - to make someone or something appear to be different from how they really are
- Pledge - to promise seriously and publicly to do something
- Extrajudicial - not within the usual powers of the law
- Vigilante - someone who tries to catch and punish criminals by themselves, without waiting for the police
- Pursuit - the process of trying to achieve something
- So-called - used for showing that you think a word used for describing someone or something is not suitable
- Threatened - to tell someone that you will cause them harm, especially in order to make them do something
- Root out - to find something bad or illegal and get rid of it
- Brazen - behaving in a way that is not moral or socially acceptable
- Alleged - said to be true, even though this has not been proved
- Complicity - involvement in a crime or some activity that is wrong:
- Quipped - to say something funny or clever
- Death squads - a group of people who illegally kill other people, especially their political opponents
- Backed - supported
- Eliminated - to get rid of something that is not wanted or needed
- Claimed - to say that something is true or is a fact, although you cannot prove it
- Reign - government (the period of time when somebody rules a country)
- Turn somebody in - to take a criminal to the police, or to go to them yourself to admit a crime
- Abrasive - rude and unfriendly
- Fettered - to keep someone within limits or stop them from making progress
- Sensibilities - someone’s tendency to be shocked or offended by something
- Diplomatic - relating to the profession or skill of preserving or creating friendly relationships between countries
- Niceties - the way of behaving that people consider to be correct
- Resorted - to do something extreme or unpleasant in order to solve a problem
- Expletive - a rude word that you use when you are angry, annoyed, or upset that might offend some people
- Vent - to express your feelings of anger very strongly
- Ire - anger
- Traffic snarl - to make traffic unable to move
- Lashed out - tried to attack someone suddenly and violently
- Evidently - in a way that is easy to see
- Unmindful - not remembering, noticing, or being careful about something
- Jarring - surprising, or slightly shocking
- Substantial - large in amount
- Remittances - a payment for goods or services that you send by post
- Shrill - unpleasant
- Rhetoric - a style of speaking or writing that is intended to influence people
- Predictably - something that is expectable
- Prompting - the act of trying to make someone say something
- Pugnacious - quick to argue or fight with people
- Nominee - someone who has been nominated for something
- Rabble-rouser - a person who makes speeches that make people excited or angry, usually intentionally in order to make them act in a particular way
- Imperative - extremely important and urgent
- Intervention - becoming involved in a difficult situation to change the result
- Contain - to control
- Inevitably - something that is sure to happen and cannot be prevented
- Sustainable - capable of continuing for a long time at the same level
- Mandate - the authority of an elected government or official to do the things that they promised to do before an election
- Impatient - annoyed because something is not happening as quickly as you want or in the way you want
- Yearned - to want something a lot, especially something that you know you may not be able to have
- Beyond their grasp - outside their understanding (they are unable to understand)
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