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 Broom - a brush with a long  Interprete - to understand an


handle, used for cleaning the floor action, situation etc in a particular
 Crackdown - a situation in which way
someone starts to deal with bad or  Affront - something insulting that
illegal behaviour in a more severe makes you shocked and angry
way  Boycott - to not take part in an
 Confrontational - behaving in a event, or to not buy or use
way that shows you want to have something as a protest
an argument or fight with  Schadenfreude - a feeling of
someone pleasure that some people have
 Judiciary - the part of government when bad things happen to
that consists of all the judges and someone else
courts in a country  Polarise - to form two very
 Standoff - a disagreement or fight different groups, opinions, or
in which neither opponent can do situations that are completely
anything to win or achieve their opposite to each other, or to cause
aim this to happen
 Unanimous - a unanimous  Overtone - a quality or feature
decision, vote, agreement etc is that is noticeable but not obvious
one that everyone agrees with and  Pertain to something - to be
supports directly related to something
 Verdict - an official judgment  Conscience - the ideas and
made in a court feelings you have that tell you
 Amendment - an official judgment whether something you are doing
made in a court is right or wrong
 Empowered - having the official  Dispassionate - able to make fair
authority or freedom to do judgments or decisions that are
something not influenced by personal feelings
 Incompetent - lacking the ability  Prospective - likely to be or
or skills to do something become a particular thing
 Misconduct - seriously bad or  Undue - not necessary or
dishonest behaviour, especially by reasonable
someone who has a position of  Attorney general - the most
responsibility senior lawyer in some countries
 Impeach - to formally accuse a  Dispassionately - in an
public official of a serious crime unemotional, rational, and
relating to their job, especially in impartial manner
the US  Legacy - something that someone
 Scrap - to decide not to continue has achieved that continues to
with something such as a plan or exist after they stop working or die
an event  Authoritarian - controlling
 Antithetical - directly opposed or everything and forcing people to
contrasted obey strict rules and laws
 Errant - behaving in a way that is  Mere - used for emphasizing that
bad or wrong something is small or unimportant
 In this regard - used for relating  Resolution - the action of solving
something that you have just said a problem or dealing with a
to something that you will be disagreement in a satisfactory way
saying  Shell company - a company that is
used to hide illegal activities

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 Duly - in the way that you expect  Sheer - used for emphasizing the
or think is suitable amount or degree of something
 Name and shame - to publish  Imperative - extremely important
embarrassing facts about a person and urgent
or organization, especially in order  Diligence - the attitude or
to persuade them to change their behaviour of someone who works
behaviour or policies very hard and very carefully
 So-called - used for showing that  Mala fide - illegal or dishonest
you think a word used for  Comply with - to obey a rule or
describing someone or something law, or to do what someone asks
is not suitable you to do
 Disqualify - to not allow someone  Onus - the responsibility or duty
to do something because they have to do something
committed an offence  Subvert - to attack or harm a
 Debar - to officially prevent government or established system
someone from doing something of law, politics etc
 Firm - a business or company  Underlying - underlying causes,
 Bona fide - a bona fide person or facts, ideas etc are the real or basic
thing is really what they seem to ones, although they are not
be or what they claim to be obvious or directly stated
 Virtually - used for emphasizing  Shortcoming - a fault or problem
that a statement is almost that makes someone or something
completely true less effective
 Publicise - to make information  Malfeasance - illegal actions
about something generally  Entrepreneur - someone who
available uses money to start businesses
 Fraught with - full of unpleasant and make business deals
things such as problems or  Chagrin - a feeling of being very
dangers annoyed, disappointed, or
 Underlying - underlying causes, embarrassed
facts, ideas etc are the real or basic  Dissolve - if a group or
ones, although they are not organization dissolves, or if
obvious or directly stated someone dissolves it, it stops
 Motive - the reason that you do existing
something  Wind up - to end something
 Cite - to mention something as an  Rigging - the act of organizing
example, explanation, or proof of something in a dishonest way in
something else order to produce a particular
 Laudable - deserving to be result
praised or admired  Insider trading - the crime of
 Inadvertently - not deliberately, buying or selling shares in a
and without realizing what you are company using information that is
doing available only to people working
 Taint - to make someone seem within that company
less honest, morally pure etc  Questionable - not good or honest
 Appellate - relating to a legal  Acute - very serious or severe
appeal  Illiquidity - used to describe an
 Tribunal - a special law court asset that is not easy to sell and
organized to judge a particular exchange for cash
case
 Hastily - not well planned
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 Oversight - something that you do  Embarrassment - a feeling of


not notice or think of that causes being nervous or ashamed because
problems later of what people know or think
 Fraudster - someone who about you
commits the crime of fraud  Unsurprisingly - in a way that
 Money launderer - someone who you expected
transforms the profits of crime  Trigger - to cause someone to
and corruption into "legal" assets have a particular feeling
 Address - to give attention to or  Ignorant - not knowing something
deal with a matter or problem that you should know or need to
 Deep-rooted a deep-rooted know
feeling, belief, idea etc is strong  Medieval - very old-fashioned
and you have had it for so long  Consistent - not changing in
that it is difficult to change behaviour, attitudes, or qualities
 Malady - a serious problem within  Pragmatism - a practical way of
a society or organization thinking or dealing with problems
 Symptom - a sign of a larger that emphasizes results and
problem solutions more than theories
 Insolvency - the state of not  Aberration - something that is not
having enough money to pay normal or not what you would
debts, buy goods, etc usually expect
 Bankruptcy - a situation in which  Hostility - opposition to
a business or a person unable to something
pay what they owe  Theocratic - relating to or
 Dissolve - if a group or denoting a system of government
organization dissolves, or if in which priests rule in the name
someone dissolves it, it stops of God or a god
existing  Regime - a system or form of
 Delist - to stop a company's shares government
being traded on the stock market  Unravel - if a process or project
 Usher in - to make an activity or unravels, it begins to fail
process begin  Forge - to develop a successful
 Significant - very large or relationship, especially in business
noticeable or politics, with another country,
 Compliant - used to describe organization, or person
something that obeys a particular  Intense - very great or extreme
rule or law  Negotiation - formal discussions
 Tirade - a long angry speech in which people or groups try to
criticizing someone or something reach an agreement, especially in a
 Non-proliferation - a policy of business or political situation
preventing any increase in the  Signatory - a person or
number of chemical weapons that organization that has signed an
countries have official agreement
 Regime - a system of rules that  Shortcoming - a fault or problem
control something that makes someone or something
 Slam - to criticize someone or less effective
something severely  Multilateral - involving three or
 Accord - a formal agreement more groups, especially the
between countries or groups governments of three or more
 Put to rest - to finally show that countries
something is not true
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 Irresolvable - (of a problem or  Deportation - a situation in which


dilemma) impossible to solve or someone is deported from a
settle country
 Compliant - too willing to do what  Caution - careful thought and lack
other people want or too willing to of hurry in order to try to avoid
accept their opinions risks or danger
 Pursuing - to try to achieve  Imputation - the act of accusing
something someone of having a bad quality or
 Conflict - angry disagreement of being guilty of something
between people or groups  Heartless - feeling or showing no
 Contrary - completely different or sympathy or kindness
opposed to something else  Affidavit - a legal document
 Substantial - large in amount or containing a written promise that
degree something is true
 Diplomacy - the ability to deal with  Adverse - negative, unpleasant, or
people in a sensitive way that does harmful
not upset or offend them  Deprived - not having the things
 Hard-line - extreme and severe that are essential for a comfortable
and not likely to change life
 Ally - a country that makes an  Legitimate - fair and reasonable
agreement with another country  Stridency - unpleasant situation
that they will work together to  Militancy - the use of violent
help each other methods in support of a political
 Undermine - to make something or social cause
or someone become gradually less  Assertion - a definite statement or
effective, confident, or successful claim that something is true
 Non-proliferation - the  Disregard - the attitude of
prevention of an increase or someone who does not respect
spread of something, especially the something or consider it
number of countries possessing important
nuclear weapons  Constitute - if something
 Setback - a problem that delays or constitutes something else, it is
that stops progress or makes a considered to be that thing
situation worse  Abandonment - to leave a place
 Refugee - someone who leaves or person quickly or suddenly
their country, especially during a  Humanitarian - relating to efforts
war or other threatening event to help people who are living in
 Intent - the intention to do very bad conditions and are
something suffering because of a war, flood,
 Conflict - a feeling of being earthquake etc
nervous or unhappy because you  Exemplary - excellent
want two different things at the  Signatory - a person or
same time organization that has signed an
 Threat - a situation or an activity official agreement
that could cause harm or danger  Adhere to something - to support
 Persecute - to treat someone or believe in an idea, plan, opinion
extremely badly, or to refuse them etc
equal rights, especially because of  Normative - concerning rules, or
their race, religion, or political forcing people to obey rules
beliefs  Hue - a different type or group

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 Refoulement - the forcible return  Referendum - an occasion when


of refugees or asylum seekers to a everyone in a country can vote to
country where they are likely to be make a decision about one
harmed particular subject
 Peremptory - speaking or  Escalating - to become much
behaving rather rudely, as if you worse or more serious, or to make
expect other people to obey you something do this
immediately  Despite - used for saying that
 Deportation - a situation in something happens even though
which someone is sent out of a something else might have
country prevented it
 Immigrant - someone who comes  Threaten - to tell someone that
to live in a country from another you might or you will cause them
country harm, especially in order to make
 Confined to - limited to them do something
 The rigours of something - the  Enhance - to improve something,
difficult and unpleasant aspects of or to make it more attractive or
a situation more valuable
 Accuse - to say that someone has  Aspiration - something that you
done something wrong or want to achieve
committed a crime  Destabilise - to cause problems
 Plotting - to make a secret plan for a country, government, or
with other people to do something person in authority so that they
bad become less effective
 Strategic - carefully planned in  Ethnic - relating to a group of
order to achieve a particular goal, people who have the same culture
especially in war, business, or and traditions
politics  Protracted - continuing for a long
 Diplomatic - relating to the time, especially longer than is
profession or skill of preserving or normal or necessary
creating friendly relationships  Civil war - a war fought between
between countries different groups of people within
 Backing - support / help the same country
 With regard to - concerning a  Resonance - an emotional effect
particular subject produced by something
 Vague - not complete, accurate, or  Dysfunctional relationship -
fully formed dysfunctional relationships do not
 Infiltrate - to secretly join an work normally and are not happy
organization or go into a place in or successful
order to find out information  Brutal - cruel, violent, and
about it or damage it completely without feelings
 Under the guise of - looking like  Autonomy - the power to make
someone or something else, or your own decisions
pretending to be them  Dispute - a serious disagreement,
 Safe haven - protection given by a especially one between groups of
country to someone from another people that lasts for a long time
country who is in danger because  Proclaim - to state something
of a war or other serious problems publicly
in their own country  Confederation - a group of people
 Proposed - offered formally as an or organizations that are united
idea or plan
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 Status quo - the present situation,  Dispensation - official permission


or the way that things usually are to do something that people are
 Jeopardise - to risk damaging or not normally allowed to do
destroying something important  Interprete - to translate what
 Sectarian - caused by someone is saying in one language
disagreements among people from into another language so that
different religious groups someone else can understand it
 Fault line - a problem that may  Memorandum - a short written
not be obvious and could cause statement containing information
something to fail about a particular subject, passed
 Partisan - strongly supporting a between officials in a government
person, principle, or political or organization
party, often without considering or  Voluntarily - of one's own free
judging the matter very carefully will
 Disqualification - a situation in  Precisely - clearly
which someone is not allowed to  Apprehension - a feeling of worry
take part in something because or fear that something bad might
they have committed an offence or happen
have done something that is not  Regime - a system or form of
allowed by the rules government
 Dissident - someone who  Despite - used for saying that
disagrees publicly with a something happens even though
government, especially in a something else might have
country where this is not allowed prevented it
 Questionable - not certain, or  Apparent - easy to see or
wrong in some way understand
 Majority - the larger number or  Whip - an official order to
part of something members of a political party to go
 Rebellion - an attempt to remove to a particular debate and vote
a government or leader by force  Disobey - to deliberately do the
 Minority - a smaller number or opposite of what someone in
part authority has told you to do, or
 Indefensible - impossible to deliberately not obey a rule
defend from criticism  Condone - to approve of
 Reluctance - unwillingness to do behaviour that most people think
something is wrong
 Floor test - a floor test is done to  Breach - a failure to follow a law
prove some type of majority or rule
(usually by head count) on the  Circumstance - a fact or condition
floor of the Parliament that affects a situation
 Thereby -because of, or by means  Quash - to use force or violence to
of, what has just been mentioned stop the political action taken by a
 Threshold - a limit at which an group of people
arrangement changes  Decline - to say politely that you
 Loyalist - someone who supports will not accept something or do
their government, especially something
during a revolution  Intervene - to become involved in
 Faction - a small group within a a situation in order to try to stop
larger group, consisting of people or change it
with different opinions from the
rest
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 Hobnob - to spend time being  Mount - to prepare for and begin


friendly with someone who is an activity or event
important or famous  Resistance - the ability not to be
 Rebel - someone who tries to affected or harmed by something
remove a government or leader  Sticky - difficult or dangerous
using force  Bury the hatchet - to become
 Morality - a set of personal or friendly with someone again after
social standards for good or bad a disagreement
behaviour and character  Contentious - causing
 Survive - to continue to exist, disagreement between people or
especially in a difficult or groups
dangerous situation  Despite - used for saying that
 Truncate - made briefer or something happens even though
shorter something else might have
 Legitimacy - the quality of being prevented it
legal  Moderation - opinions and
 Reconciliation - a new and actions, especially in politics, that
friendly relationship with are reasonable and not extreme
someone who you argued with or  Gradual - gradual processes and
fought with changes happen slowly and by
 Overture - a suggestion or offer small amounts
that you make to someone  Ally - a country that makes an
 Reviving - to become, or to make agreement with another country
something become, active, that they will work together to
successful, or popular again help each other, especially in a war
 Dissolve - if a group or  Impediment - something that
organization dissolves, or if makes it more difficult for
someone dissolves it, it stops someone to do something or more
existing difficult for something to happen
 Common ground - something that  Stakeholder - someone who has
people can agree about, especially an interest in the success of a plan,
when they disagree about other system, or organization
things  Vis-à-vis - compared to or relating
 Rival - a person, team, or business to someone or something
that competes with another  Caution - careful thought and lack
 Rapprochement - the of hurry in order to try to avoid
development of greater risks or danger
understanding and friendship  Deficit - the difference between
between two countries or groups the amount of money or goods that
after they have been unfriendly a country or business has and the
 Humanitarian - relating to efforts amount that it has spent or that it
to help people who are living in owes
very bad conditions and are  Balance sheet - a written
suffering because of a war, flood, statement showing the value of a
earthquake etc company at a particular time
 Crisis - an urgent, difficult, or  Significantly - by a large amount,
dangerous situation or in a way that is easily noticeable
 Blockade - to prevent people or  Infamous - well known for
goods from moving from one place something bad
to another  Taper - to gradually reduce the
amount of new money which is
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supplied by a central bank in order  Unsavoury - involving unpleasant,


to aid economic recovery dishonest, or immoral things that
 Tantrum - an occasion when you do not want to think or talk
someone suddenly behaves in a about
very angry and unreasonable way  Macroeconomic - relating to the
 Caution - careful thought and lack economic system of a whole
of hurry in order to try to avoid country or large region
risks or danger  Unhedged - unanswered
 Merchandise - goods that people  Volatility - liability to change
buy and sell rapidly and unpredictably,
 Surplus - an amount of money or especially for the worse
goods that is left because a country  Peculiar - strange, often in an
or business has more than it needs unpleasant way
 Yield - to make a profit  Floor test - Floor test is done to
 Stepping up - to increase prove some type of majority
something (usually by head-count) on the
 Investment - money used in a way floor of the Parliament for a crucial
that may earn you more money, decision regarding the country
for example money used for  Rationale - the set of reasons that
buying property or shares in a something such as a plan or belief
company is based on
 Portfolio investments - all the  Interim - a temporary court order
investments that a person or  Fathom - to understand
company has made  Stalling - to stop making progress
 Thanks to - used for saying that  Ascertain - to find out something
someone or something is  Motion - a formal proposal that
responsible for something that people discuss and then vote on in
happened a meeting or debate
 Forex - foreign exchange  Essentially - used for emphasizing
 Appreciate - if something what is the most important aspect
appreciates, its value increases of something or fact about
gradually something
 Impending - an impending event  Jurisdiction - the right or power
or situation, especially an to make legal decisions
unpleasant one, is one that will  Ostensible - appearing or
happen very soon claiming to be one thing when it is
 Beneficiary - someone who gets really something else
an advantage from a situation  Apprehension - fear that
 For instance - for example something unpleasant is going to
 Aggressively - very determined to happen
win or be successful  Petitioner - a person who is
 Tapped into something - to asking for action from a law court
understand and express  Rebel - a person who is opposed
something to the political system in their
 Volatile - a volatile situation can country and tries to change it
suddenly change or become more using force
dangerous  Minority - a smaller number or
 Prolonged - continuing for a long part
time  Majority - the larger number or
 Unfavourable - not positive, or part of something:
not showing approval
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 Conflate - to combine two or more  Incumbent - officially having the


separate things, especially pieces named position
of text, to form a whole  Empowered - having the official
 Disqualification - a situation in authority or freedom to do
which someone is not allowed to something
take part in something because  Alter - to change something
they have committed an offence or  Outcome - a result or effect of an
have done something that is not action, situation, etc
allowed by the rules  Horse-trading - unofficial
 Defection - the act of leaving discussion in which people make
country / political party etc., agreements that provide both
especially in order to join an sides with advantages
opposing one  Apparent - easy to see or
 Dissident - a person who publicly understand
disagrees with and criticizes their  Infusing - to fill someone or
government something with an emotion or
 Decline - to refuse quality
 Undertaking - a formal promise  Bilateral - involving two groups
 Dissenter - someone who strongly or countries
disagrees with something  Geopolitical - related to a political
 Regime - a system or form of activity as influenced by the
government physical features of a country or
 Set aside - to officially state that a area of the world
particular legal decision will no  Agenda - a secret aim or reason
longer be followed for doing something
 Necessitate - to cause something  Strategic - carefully planned in
to be needed, or to make order to achieve a particular goal,
something necessary especially in war, business, or
 Proactive - taking action by politics
causing change and not only  Infrastructure - the basic systems
reacting to change when it and services, such as transport and
happens power supplies, that a country or
 Reticent - unwilling to speak organization uses in order to work
about your thoughts or feelings effectively
 Conceded - to admit, often  Rolling stock - the engines and
unwillingly, that something is true carriagesthat are used on a
 Flagrant - (of a bad action, railway
situation, person, etc.) shocking  Significant - important or
because of being so obvious noticeable
 Violation - an action that breaks  Accountable - in a position where
or acts against something people have the right to criticize
 Disregard - the fact of showing no you or ask you why something
care or respect for something happened
 Intervene - to intentionally  Obviously - in a way that is easy
become involved in a difficult to understand or see
situation in order to improve it or  Benefactor - someone who gives
prevent it from getting worse money to help an organization,
 For instance - for example society, or person
 Lawful - allowed by the law  Zero tolerance - the act of
 Glaringly obvious - very clear punishing all criminal or

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unacceptable behaviour severely,  Forge - to make or produce


even if it is not very serious something, especially with some
 Designate - to say officially that a difficulty
place or thing has a particular  Regime - a system of rules that
character or purpose control something
 Prosperous - rich and successful  Essential - completely necessary
 Substantive - important, serious,  Glitch - a small and sudden
or related to real facts problem
 Alignment - the organization of  Roll-out - to introduce a new
activities or systems so that they product or service
match or fit well together  Revenue - income from business
 Countering - to react to activities or taxes
something with an opposing  Robust - strong and successful
opinion or action, or to defend  Surge - a sudden increase in
yourself against something something such as price, value, or
 Foray - a sudden quick attack on interest
an enemy  Significantly - by a large amount,
 Maritime - connected with human or in a way that is easily noticeable
activity at sea  Initial - happening at the
 Buttress - to make support for an beginning of a process, or when
idea or argument stronger by you first see or hear about
providing a good reason for it something
 Accelerated - faster than usual  Corroborate - to support what
 Perceive - to come to an opinion someone says by giving
about something, or have a belief information or evidence that
about something agrees with them
 Leap - to achieve something  Inflow - an amount of something
suddenly, usually fame, power, or such as money or goods that
importance comes into a place
 Imperative - extremely important  Subsequent - happening or
or urgent coming after something else
 Donor - someone who gives  Exchequer - the government
money or goods to an organization department responsible for a
 Decline - to gradually become country’s financial matters
less, worse, or lower  Fiscal - relating to money and
 Contrast - an obvious difference financial matters, especially taxes
between two or more things  Rationalise - to make an
 Stark - used for describing an organization more effective
unpleasant fact or situation that is  Levy - an amount of money that
very obvious or impossible to you have to pay, for example as a
avoid tax
 Address - to give attention to or  Stimulus - anything that
deal with a matter or problem encourages something to happen,
 Opulent - expensive and luxurious develop, or improve
 Pageantry - the traditional  Backbone - the most important
features of formal ceremonies, for part of something
example special clothes, music,  Expeditiously - with speed and
and decorations efficiency
 Facilitate - to make something  Transparently - done in an open
possible or easier way without secrets

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 Crimp - to prevent something  Relatively - in comparison with


from increasing or developing someone or something similar
 Unjust - not fair or reasonable  Coalition - a temporary union of
 Scale up - to make something different political parties that
larger in size, amount etc than it agree to form a government
used to be together
 Acute - very serious or severe  Accrue - if benefits and
 Exporter - a person, business, or advantages accrue to you, you
country that sells goods to another receive them
country  Former - used for describing
 Setback - a problem that delays or someone or something that had a
that stops progress or makes a particular job, title, status etc in
situation worse the past, but not now
 Switch-over - to stop doing one  Stronghold - a place where the
thing and start doing another majority of people have the same
 Amid - if something happens amid political or religious beliefs
particular feelings or events, it  Divergence - a difference in the
happens while people have these way that two or more things
feelings or while these events are develop from the same thing
happening  Rival - a person, team, or business
 Hardly - used for saying that that competes with another
something is almost not true or  Advocate - to publicly support a
almost does not happen at all particular policy or way of doing
 Conducive - creating a situation things
that helps something to happen  Eurozone - the group of European
 Opted for - to make a choice or Union states that use the euro as
decision from a range of their official currency
possibilities  Assiduous - hard-working and
 Re-election - to elect someone thorough
again  Alliance - a group of people,
 Chancellor - the leader of the organizations, or countries who
government in some countries, for have united to work together to
example Germany and Austria achieve something
 Bid - if two or more people bid for  Pursuit - the process of trying to
a job, they compete with each achieve something
other to do the work  Isolationist - a person favouring a
 No-brainer - a question or policy of remaining apart from the
problem that is very easy to deal affairs or interests of other groups
with  Scenario - a situation that could
 Campaign - a series of things that possibly happen
a politician or political party does  Cautious - careful to avoid
to try to win an election problems or danger
 Contender - someone who  Electorate - all the people who are
competes with other people for a allowed to vote in an election
prize or job  Likely - probably going to happen
 Candidature - the fact that  Prospect - the possibility that
someone is a candidate in an something will happen
election  Materialise - to happen or to
 Novelty - something new and become real
unusual  In the reckoning - being
considered for a job or position
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 Anxiety - a worried feeling you  Interim - temporary


have because you think something  Evoking - to bring a particular
bad might happen emotion, idea, or memory into
 Eurosceptic - someone, especially your mind
a politician, who thinks that their  Loyalty - support that you always
country should not be part of the give to someone or something
European Union because of your feelings of duty
 Make inroads - to take or use a and love towards them
large part of something  Precondition - something that
 Anodyne - containing nothing that must happen or be done before
will offend anyone or cause something else can happen
disagreements, and therefore  Faction - something that must
rather boring happen or be done before
 Immigrant - someone who comes something else can happen
to live in a country from another  Merger - the process of combining
country two companies or organizations to
 Xenophobic - having or showing a form a bigger one
dislike of or prejudice against  Reclaim - to get something back
people from other countries that someone has taken from you
 Notched up - to win something, or  Desire - a strong feeling of
to achieve something wanting to have or to do
 Consistently - in every case or on something
every occasion  Immaterial - not important or
 Sizeable - fairly large relevant
 Speculate - to consider or discuss  Consequence - a result or effect of
why something has happened or something
what might happen  Council - an official group of
 Turnout - the number of voters in people who have been chosen to
an election make decisions or provide advice
 Nonetheless - despite what has  Legitimacy - the fact that
just been said something is legal
 Erosion - the gradual reduction or  Isolation - the state of being
destruction of something separated from other people, or a
important situation in which you do not have
 Verdict - an opinion or decision the support of other people
made after judging the facts that  Clan - a big family
are given  Sympathise - to behave in a kind
 Populist - representing the way and show that you
interests and opinions of ordinary understand someone’s problems
people  Gratitude - a feeling of being
 Upsurge - a sudden increase in grateful to someone because they
something have given you something or have
 Formal - following the correct or done something for you
suitable official methods  Abolition - the official end to a
 Ouster - the removal of someone law, system, practice etc
from an official position  Resistant - not harmed or affected
 Polarising - to cause something, by something
especially something that contains  Overt - not hidden or secret
different people or opinions, to  Hesitant - doing something slowly
divide into two completely or pausing before you do it,
opposing groups
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because you are nervous,  Genocide - the murder of large


embarrassed, or worried numbers of people belonging to a
 Breakaway - consisting of people particular race
who have decided to separate  Prosperity - the situation of being
from a larger group successful and having a lot of
 Disqualify - to not allow someone money
to do something because they have  Boom - a sudden major increase in
committed an offence trade, profits etc in a particular
 Defection - to leave a country, country or region
political party, or organization and  Garment - a piece of clothing (this
go to another one word is used especially when
 Accentuate - to emphasize talking about the production and
something, or to make it more sale of clothes)
noticeable  Can ill afford something - used
 Reconciliation - a new and for saying that someone should
friendly relationship with definitely not do something
someone who you argued with or because it will cause problems
fought with  Unrest - angry or violent
 Expel - to officially force someone behaviour by people who are
to leave a place or organization protesting against something
because of their bad behaviour  Democracy - a system of
 Inaction - the failure to do government in which people vote
anything, especially when you in elections to choose the people
should do something who will govern them
 Notwithstanding - despite  Democrat - someone who
something supports democracy as a political
 Patching up - to become friends system
with someone again after a  Autocratic - ruling with complete
disagreement power
 Unravel - if a process or project  Tendency - an aspect of your
unravels, it begins to fail character that you show by
 Regime - a government that behaving in a particular way
controls a country, especially in a  Pronounced - very obvious or
strict or unfair way noticeable
 Repression - the use of force or  Detention - the state of being kept
violence to control people in a police station or prison and
 Fragile - easy to break or damage not being allowed to leave
 Crackdown - strong action that  Treason - the crime of helping
someone in authority takes to stop your country’s enemies or of
a particular activity trying to destroy your country’s
 Criminalisation - the action of government
turning an activity into a criminal  Circumstance - conditions that
offence by making it illegal make a bad action or mistake seem
 Opposition - strong disagreement less serious, sometimes even
with a plan or policy, especially making it seem reasonable
when this is shown in active  Promulgate - to make an idea or
attempts to prevent something belief known to as many people as
 Regression - a return to a possible
previous or less developed state  Convict - someone who is in
prison because they are guilty of a
crime
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 Tenure - the period of time  Dispensation - official permission


during which someone has an to do something that people are
important job or is an elected not normally allowed to do
official  Turmoil - a state of excitement or
 Dictator - someone who uses uncontrolled activity
force to take and keep power in a  Turnaround - an important
country change in a situation that causes it
 Intent - the intention to do to improve
something  Dramatic - sudden and surprising
 Significant - very large or or easy to notice
noticeable  Bilateral - involving two groups
 Retain - to keep someone or or countries
something  Rivalry - a situation in which
 Conceal - to hide something people, teams, businesses etc
 Instinct - the way people or compete with one another
animals naturally react or behave,  Evade - to avoid accepting or
without having to think or learn dealing with something that you
about it should do
 Ruthless - willing to make other  Accountability - a situation in
people suffer so that you can which people know who is
achieve your aims responsible for something and can
 Threaten - to tell someone that ask them to explain its state or
you might or you will cause them quality
harm, especially in order to make  Underscoring - to emphasize
them do something something
 Veteran - someone who has a lot  Diplomacy - the profession or
of experience doing a particular skill of preserving or creating
activity friendly relationships between
 Exile - a situation in which you are countries
forced to live in a foreign country  Alter - to change something
because you cannot live in your  Sustained - continuing at the
own country, usually for political same level or rate for a long time
reasons  Precariously - in a way that is not
 Extract - to remove something securely in position and is likely to
from a particular place change or become dangerous
 Concession - something you give without warning
or allow to someone in order to  In the air - if something is in the
reach an agreement air, you feel that it is happening or
 Protracted - continuing for a long about to happen
time, especially longer than is  Innovation - a new idea, method,
normal or necessary piece of equipment etc
 Crisis - a time of great  Unruly - very difficult to control
disagreement, confusion, or  Gravity - the seriousness or
suffering importance of something
 Allusion - a statement that refers  Offence - a crime or illegal activity
to something in an indirect way for which there is a punishment
 Desperation - the worry and  Stringent - stringent rules or
anger that someone feels because conditions are strict and make you
they do not know how to deal with achieve high standards
a bad situation  Aviation - connected with making
or flying planes
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 Quantum of punishment - the things should be if everything that


amount of punishment that a you wanted were possible
person deserves or that the court  Deterrent - something that makes
has awarded people decide not to do something
 Compensation - money that by making them realize that
someone receives because something unpleasant could
something bad has happened to happen to them
them  Egregious - extremely bad
 Allegation - a statement that  Isolate - happening only once, or
someone has done something existing only in one place
wrong or illegal even though this  Consequence - a result or effect of
has not been proved something
 Aggrieved - feeling angry and  Inefficiency - not organized,
unhappy because you think you skilled, or able to work in a
have been treated in an unfair way satisfactory way
 Appellate - relating to a legal  Over-booking - to sell more
appeal tickets than you have available
 Empowering - to give a person or  Threat - a suggestion that
organization the legal authority to something unpleasant or violent
do something will happen, especially if a
 Graver - so serious that you feel particular action or order is not
worried followed
 Widespread - happening or  Evade - to avoid accepting or
existing in many places, or dealing with something that you
affecting many people should do
 Entitlement - the feeling that you  Profitability - the degree to which
have the right to do or have what something is profitable, or the
you want without having to work state of being profitable
for it or deserve it, just because of  Shakeout - a major change in an
who you are industry that causes some
 Unruly - very difficult to control companies to close or a lot of
 Subsequently - after something people to lose their jobs
else happened  Enhance - to improve something
 Grudging - done in an unwilling  Angst - a strong feeling of worry
way about what you should do, how
 Apology - a statement that tells you should behave
someone that you are sorry for  Preventive - done so that
doing something wrong or for something does not become worse
causing a problem or turn into a problem
 Provision - a part of an agreement  Egregious - extremely bad
or law that deals with a particular  Resurgence - the start of
problem something again that quickly
 Necessitating - to make increases in influence, effect etc
something necessary  Phenomenal - extremely
 As a last resort - used for saying impressive or surprising
that you will do something only  Transported - if something
after trying everything else to transports you to a different time
solve a problem or place, it makes you feel as if you
 Ideally - used for saying what you were in it
would like to happen or how  Precisely - exactly / clearly

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 Clinical - not showing any  Mastery - great knowledge or skill


excitement or emotion  Advancement - progress
 Ruthless - willing to make other  Painstakingly - very carefully and
people suffer so that you can thoroughly
achieve your aims  Impact - an effect, or an influence
 Transcend - to become free of  Tribute - something that you do,
negative attitudes, thoughts, or say, or build to show that you
feelings that limit what you can respect and admire someone or
achieve something
 Frenetic - done very fast and with  Longevity - the fact of having a
a lot of energy, often by someone long life or existence
who is in a hurry  Injury - physical damage done to a
 Monotone - unchanging / person or a part of their body
continuing in the same way  Setback - a problem that delays or
 Soaked in - to spend time that stops progress or makes a
experiencing and enjoying the situation worse
mood or feeling in a place  Remarkable - unusual in a way
 Applause - the sound of people that surprises or impresses you
clapping their hands repeatedly to  Triumph - a great victory or
show enjoyment or approval of success
something such as a performance  Catalan - a language that people
or speech speak in parts of the north-east of
 Boisterous - lively and noisy Spain
 Merely - just / only  Secession - the act of leaving an
 Debunk - to prove that something organization or government, esp.
such as an idea or belief is false the decision of a state to separate
and silly from the government
 Triumph - to win a great victory,  Referendum - an occasion when
or to have a great success everyone in a country can vote to
 Legacy - something that someone make a decision about one
has achieved that continues to particular subject
exist after they stop working or die  Calibrate - to check something to
 Cultivated - a cultivated person is see if it is accurate
well educated and knows how to  Long-standing - having existed
behave politely for a long time
 Innate - an innate quality or  Conflict - angry disagreement
ability is one that you have always between people or groups
had  Escalate - to become much worse
 Relentlessness - something bad or more serious, or to make
that is relentless never seems to something do this
stop or improve  Full-blown - in its most complete
 Former - used for describing and developed form
someone or something that had a  Crisis - an urgent, difficult, or
particular job, title, status etc in dangerous situation
the past, but not now  Legislature - the part of
 Conqueror - winner government that makes and
 Heart-warming - making you feel changes laws
happy  Consistent with - containing
 Tactical - a tactical action is one statements or ideas that are
that you do as part of a plan for similar or that have the same aim
achieving what you want
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 Mandate - the authority of an independent of a national,


elected government or official to religious, or other group to which
do the things that they promised they belong
to do before an election  Hardline - strict or extreme in
 Self-determination - the freedom your beliefs or opinions, and not
of the people in a country to willing to change them
choose their own government and  Stance - an attitude or view about
not be controlled by another an issue that you state clearly
country  Defiant - refusing to obey a
 Turnout - the number of voters in person or rule
an election  Consolidation - the action or
 In turn - as a result of something process of making something
that is part of a connected series of stronger or more solid
events  Reportedly - used for showing
 Cautioned - warned that you are not certain that
 Plebiscite - a vote by everyone in something you are reporting is
a country about a very important true
issue  Invalidate - to make something
 Unconstitutional - not allowed or such as a document, contract, or
not legal according to the process no longer legally effective
constitution (=set of official rules  Prospect - the possibility that
or principles) of a particular something will happen
country or organization  Implication - a possible effect or
 Swiftly - quickly result
 Confrontation - a situation in  Conversely - used for introducing
which people or groups are a sentence, or part of a sentence,
arguing angrily or are fighting which says something that is the
 Imminent - likely or certain to opposite of the other part
happen very soon  Confiscation - the action of taking
 Outcome - the final result of a or seizing something with
process, meeting, activity etc authority
 Conservative - not willing to  Ballot box - a box in which you
accept much change, especially in put your ballot paper after you
the traditional values of society have voted
 Invoke - to use a law or rule in  Undoubtedly - used for saying
order to achieve something that something is certainly true or
 Confer - to give something such as is accepted by everyone
authority, a legal right, or an  Secessionist - favouring formal
honour to someone withdrawal from membership of a
 Province - one of many areas into federation or body, especially a
which some countries are divided political state
 Awkward - difficult to deal with  Carte blanche - the freedom to do
and embarrassing what you want in a particular
 Dire - very severe or serious situation
 Consequence - a result or effect of  Embarrassment - a feeling of
something being nervous or ashamed because
 Expenditure - money spent by a of what people know or think
government, organization, or about you.
person  -THE END-
 Separatist - a member of a group  -PLEASE SHARE IT IF YOU LIKE IT-
of people who want to be
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