English Vocabulary from
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Topic 1 : "A Nobel push for peace in Colombia"
Topic 2 : "The lure of the exotic and esoteric"
- Strife - fighting or disagreement between people or groups
- Silver lining - an advantage of difficult or unpleasant situation
- Spoilt - destroy the value or quality
- Landmark - a major event or achievement that marks an important stage in a process and makes progress possible
- Closure - the end of something
- Purported - said by some people to be real or true, but not proved to be real or true
- Ambition - a strong wish to achieve something
- Paved the way - if something paves the way for/to something else, it makes the other thing possible
- Negotiator - someone who tries to help two groups who disagree to reach an agreement with each other
- Contender - someone who competes with other people for a prize or job
- Volunteers - someone who offers to do something without being forced
- War-ravaged - severely damaged by a long war, especially between different groups from the same country
- Rescue - to save someone from a dangerous or unpleasant situation
- Injured - hurt in an accident or attack
- Stranded - left somewhere with no way of going anywhere else
- Painstakingly - in a way that shows you have taken a lot of care or made a lot of effort
- Negotiations - formal discussions in which people or groups try to reach an agreement
- Accord - a formal agreement between countries or groups
- Winding down - to end, or to finish something gradually
- Hostility - opposition to something
- Disbanding - if a group of people disbands or is disbanded, its members stop working together
- Conceding - admiting
- Inequity - an unfair situation
- Dismantle - to separate the parts of something such as a machine so that they no longer form a single unit
- Prospect - the possibility that something will happen, especially something good
- Setback - a problem that delays or that stops progress or makes a situation worse
- Ratified - to make an agreement official by signing it or formally accepting it
- Referendum - an occasion when everyone in a country can vote to make a decision about one particular subject
- Turned out - to go somewhere in order to be present at an event or take part in an activity
- Ruled out - to stop considering something as a possibility
- Despite - used for saying that something happens even though something else might have prevented it
- Broad-based - used to describe something that will affect many different places, activities, etc
- Persuasive - good at making people agree to do or believe what you want them to
- Militate against something - to make something more difficult to do or less likely to happen
- Durable - able to stay in good condition for a long time
- Testimonial - an event that is organized as a formal way of thanking someone for their work
- Complex - something that is complex has a lot of details or small parts that make it difficult to understand or deal with
- Conflict - angry disagreement between people or groups
Topic 2 : "The lure of the exotic and esoteric"
- Lure - he quality or power that something or someone has that makes it, him, or her attractive
- Exotic - interesting or exciting because of being unusual or not familiar
- Esoteric - known about or understood by very few people
- Trigger - to make something happen
- Laureate - a person who has been given a very high honour because of their ability in a subject of study
- Switch - to change from one thing to another
- Enthuse - to express excitement about something or great interest in it
- Autophagy - a natural mechanism whereby unncecessary or dysfunctional cellular components are disassembled
- Ventured into - to do something that is a risk
- Paradigm-shifting - a time when the usual and accepted way of doing or thinking about something changes completely
- Seminal - containing important new ideas and having a great influence on later work:
- Vacuole - a space that contains air or liquid inside a living cell, often storing an important chemical or food substance
- Embryo - an animal or human before it is born, when it is beginning to develop and grow
- Countering - to take action in order to oppose or stop something or reduce its negative effects
- Frustrating - making you feel annoyed and impatient because you are prevented from achieving something
- Prevailed - to get control or influence
- Antithesis - the exact opposite
- Precisely - exactly
- Break new ground - to do something completely different from what has been done before
- Severely - very seriously
- Elegant - impressive because it is simple and effective
- Endeavour - an effort to do something, especially something new or difficult
- Primitive - at a very simple stage of development, before modern technology
- Cog - someone considered as a minor part of a large organization
- Crank - someone with ideas or behaviour that you think are very strange
- Nanoscale - relating to structures that are less than 100 nanometres in length
- Diverse - very different from each other
- Predict - to say that an event or action will happen in the future, especially as a result of knowledge or experience
- Exotic - interesting or exciting because of being unusual or not familiar
- Superconductivity - the ability of some metals to allow electricity to pass through them without any resistance at very low temperatures
- Beyond - outside or after (a stated limit)
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