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English Vocabulary

TermDefinitionExample
Predecessor (Precede) a thing that has been followed or replaced by another
Contravention opposing sth hints at other deadlier contraventions within the now complex supply chains
Exacerbate proliferate
Hark (...back to)mention or remember sth from the past This harks back to the same root problem
Nadir The lowest or most unsuccessful point in a situation food industry is again at nadir
Fizzled out Peter out hopes fizzled out
Crackdown (... on)a series of severe measures to restrict undesirable or illegal people or behaviour crackdown on car crime
Anointed choose formally
Dissent refusal to accept
Repressed subdue someone or sth by force the uprisings were repressed
Mandate an official order or commission to do sth
Chasm a profound difference between people, viewpoints, feelings, etc widening chasm between the government and the people
Ailing declining
Proclamation a clear declaration of sth proclamations of modernisation and freedom are ubiquitous
Ubiquitous seen everywhere; common
Purported appear to be or do sth, especially falsely
Brunt (bear the...) bear the worst consequences
Plummet fall or drop straight down at high speeds
Beleaguer put in a very difficult situation
Philistine a person who is hostile and indifferent to culture and arts
Cement settle or establish firmly cements the fact that...
Untenable (especially of a point of view) not able to be maintained or defended against attack or objection untenable task of sifting out terror in our modern world
Covert surreptitious; clandestine; furtive
Orchestrate to produce a desired outcome, esp clandestinely
Surreptitious covert
Impunity exemption from punishment or freedom from the injurious consequences of an action individuals to act with impunity
Blatant (of a bad behaviour) done openly and unshamely blatant lack of transparency
Alienate make someone feel isolated alienating them to extremes even more
Perpetrate to carry out a crime
Calamity an event causing great and often sudden damage or distress; disaster
Imminent approaching very soon
Pervasive widespread
Remuneration money paid for work or service
Monolith a large corporate(public/private) that is slow to change
Convene assemble convene an alliance
Rejuvenate make sth look better or younger
Oligopoly a market condition where there are very few sellers such that any action of either one will have a great impact on the society
Integral (...to)pivotal; imperative; of paramount importance
Nub (the...)the central point of a matter
Ambivalence mixed feelings
Stalemate
Hamstring severely restrict Obama hamstrung by domestic politics
Provision
Impasse
Polarise
Confound
Convoluted
Partisan
Narcissism
Pathological
Sartorial
Xenophobic
Downtrodden
Grim
Contigency
Lapse
Reign
Destitute
Palpable
Morph
Vaunt
Goodwill establish reputation of a corporation earn consumer goodwill
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