Articles próf 1 Flashcards
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Resistance
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Refusal to accept something new such as plan, idea or change
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Conspiracy
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A secret plan by a group of people to do something bad or illegal
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Advocate
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A person who strongly and publicly supports someone or something
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Denomination
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The value of a particular coin or banknote
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Hassle
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Something that causes problems for you or that annoys you very much
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To outweight
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To be more important useful or valuable than something else
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Shadow economy
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Illicit economic activity existing alongside a country´s official economy (black market)
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Death knell
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An event or situation that is a sign of the end of something
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To budget
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To plan the way you spend the money you have, especially so that you do not spend too much
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To demonize
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To describe someone or something as very bad or dangerous although they are not
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Migrant
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A person who moves between countries to find work
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To promt
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To make somebody do something or to cause something to happen
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Disability
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A physical or mental condition that means you cannot use a part of your body completely or easily, or that you cannot learn easily
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Grave
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Serious
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To follow suit
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To do the same
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Tax revenues
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The money that the government receives from taxes
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A badge
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A small piece of metal or plastic, with a design or words on it, that a person wears to show
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Promted an outry
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Cause people to protest
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To shatter
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To break; to cause something to stop existing
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Barrier
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Obstacle; hindrance
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Illustrated
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Containing pictures or other graphical material
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Suffocate
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To cause to die or vanish
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To follow suit
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To do the same as someone else
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Sport analyst
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A person who conducts analysis (that is examines the elements and structure of N.B.A)
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Outpouring
A flood, stream of
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League executive
The person with senior managerial responsibility in the league
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So suffocate
To die or vanish
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To post
To make information available on the internet
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To issue
To formally send out
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To citie
To mention, refer to
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Free agent
A sports player who is not bound by a contract and so is eligible to join any team
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To carve a niche
An are in which someone can use their abilities
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To draft
To choose someone for a special task
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To allude to
To hing; to suggest
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Genuine
Honest and sincere
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Authentic
Genuine; real
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Disclosure
Making new or secret information known (afhjúpun)
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To divulge
To make known private or sensitive information (segja frá)
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Groundbreaking
Something very new and a big change from another things of its type
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Eloquent
Fluent or persuasive in speaking or writing
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Cerebral
Intellectual rather than emotional or physical
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Orientation
Your sexual preference/sexual inclination
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Subtle
Not very noticeable or obvious
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Solidarity
Support one person or a group of people for another because they share feelings, opinions, aims
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Custom
Made or done to order; custom made
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Jersey
A shirt that is worn by a member of a sports team
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To scout
To look for people to that would fit into the team
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Flux
Continuous movement and change
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Conservative
Disliking change and holding traditional values
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Justice
A judge or magistrate, in particular judge of the Supreme Court of a country or state
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To alter
To change
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Opinion polls
An assessment of public opinion by questioning a representative sample
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To favour
To support or like something
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Homophobic
Having fear of homosexuality
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Amid
In the middle of
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En masse
In group; all together
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Advocacy
Public support for a particular cause or policy
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Comprehensive
Including or dealing with all or nearly all elements or aspects of something
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Rookie
A person who is new to an organization or an activity
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Veteran
A person who has a lot of experience of a particular activity
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Clan
A large family
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Congressman
A man who belongs to a congress, especially a member of the US Congress (þingmaður)
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Parade
A public procession, especially one celebrating a special day or event
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To march
To walk along public roads in an organized procession as form of protest
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To take a stand
To make clear your opinion on something
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Era
A period of time
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Drone
An aircraft without a pilot, controlled from the ground
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Fully-fledged
Completely developed
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Implication
A possible result of an action or decision
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To conceive of
To imagine or create something in your mind, to come up with an idea
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Insurgent
A person fighting against the government or armed forces of their own country
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To scuttle about
To move quickly
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Intelligence
Secret information about the enemy
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Reconnaissance
The activity of getting information about an area for military purpose
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Locust
A large insect that lives in hot countries and flies in large groups. It can destroy all the plants and crops of an area
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Swarm (v + n)
A large group of insects moving together
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Kinetic energy
Energy associated with movement and motion
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Profound
Very serious
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Game-changer
A person, an idea or event that completely changes the way a situation develops
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Robotics
The science of designing and operating robots
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Tactics
Moving soldiers and military equipment around during a battle or war in order to use them in the most effective way
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Doctrine
A government policy or a set of political beliefs
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Ethics
Moral values
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Anti-personnel landmines
Bombs placed under the ground, designed to harm or kill people
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Autonomous
Able to control itself
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To unleash
To allow something powerful to happen
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Mere
A word you use to emphasize how unimportant or small something is
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Repulsive
Disgusting
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Concept
An idea
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To comply with
To obey a rule or an order
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Rules of engagement
The rules that govern how wars are conducted
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Atrocity
A cruel and violent act, especially in war
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Non-combatant casualties
Injuries that happen to ordinary civilians, not soldiers
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Judicious
Careful and sensible, showing good judgement
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Lobbyist
Someone whose job is to influence government policy
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To proliferate
To increase rapidly; to grow slowly
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Disservice
To do something that harms someone
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To slaughter
To kill
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Conventional
Traditional
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To engage
To begin fighting
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Intervention
To become involved in a situation to try and help
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To emerge
To appear
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To deploy
To move soldiers or weapons into position where they are ready for military action
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Moratorium
An officially agreed temporary ban
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To oppose
To fight against something
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Cryptocurrency
Any system of electronic money, used for buying and selling online and without the need for a central bank
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Inception
Beginning / start
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Bubble
Economic growth that is extremely good for a short period of time but is unlikely to last
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To sidestep
To avoid
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To encrypt (something)
To put information into a special code, especially in order to prevent people from looking at it without authority
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A medium of exchange
Currency
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Boom and bust tendencies
Highs and low
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To surge
To rise / increase rapidly
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Wipe out
Destroy completely
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Cautionary
Warning somebody to be careful
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A vehicle for something
Something that can be used to express your ideas or feelings or as a way of achieving something
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Scammer
A person who commits fraud or participates in a dishonest scheme
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Crook
A dishonest person
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Anarchism
The belief that there should be no government or laws
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For good measure
A way of making something complete or better
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Sidestep
Avoid
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Parallel
Similar to
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Banknote
A piece of paper money
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Monopoly
Having a complete control over something so other organization cannot compete with
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Sweeping
Wide-ranging / having a major effect
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Akin to
Similar to
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Estimate
A judgement that you make without having the exact details or figures about the size, amount, cost etc. of something
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Blockchain
Blockchain makes each individual piece of data only be able to have one owner
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Market capitalization
The value of a company that is traded on the stock market
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Asset
An item of property
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Utility
Usefulness
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Held in high regard
Respected and valued
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Modest
Not very large, expensive, important etc.
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Moderately
Fairly but not very
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Upside
The more positive aspect of a situation that is generally bad
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Has been shot
Has been getting rid of
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Burned
Lost money, suffered a loss
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Speculative investment
High-risk investment with the purchaser being more interested in price fluctuations than fundamental/real value
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Niche asset
A very specific benefit for a small number of people
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Unchaperoned
Unsupervised
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Landline
A telephone connected by such a fixed wire, specifically not wireless
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Generational
Connected with particular generation or with the relationship between different generations
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Doctoral
Relating to or designed to achieve a doctorate
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Line graph
A diagram of lines made by connected data points which represent successive changes in the value of variable quantity or quantities
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Abrupt
Sudden or unexpected
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Blip
An unexpected, minor, and typically temporary deviation from a general trend
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Millennial
People who became adults around the year 2000
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Recession
A period of temporary economic decline during which trade and industrial activity are reduced
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Surpass
Exceed; be greater than
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Pore over
To read or study something very carefully
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Concomitant
Happening at the same time as something else
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Advent of
The time when something begins or arrives
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Hand-wringing
The clasping together and squeezing of one´s hands, especially when distressed or worried
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Deleterious
Damaging or harmful
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To curtail
To reduce or limit
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Markedly
In a way that is easy to notice
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Predecessor
A thing/person that has been followed or replaced by another
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Skyrocket
To increase quickly to a very high level or amount
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On the brink
Being almost in a very new, dangerous or exciting situation
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Decade
A period of 10 years
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Crisis
A difficult or a dangerous situation that needs serious attention
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Deterioration
The act or process of becoming worse
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Magnitude
The great size or importance of something
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Compelling
That makes you thing it is true
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Profound
Very great
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Allure
Power to attract
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To hold sway
To have power or a very strong influence
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Shift
A change in position or dierction
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Decline
Continuous decrease in the number, value, quality of something
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Contribute
To be one of the causes of something
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Adolescent
A young person who is developing into an adult
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Notion
An idea or opinion
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Era
A period of time, that is different from other periods because of particular characteristics or events
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To prod
To persuade or try to persuade someone to do something
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Accelerate
To happen or to make something happen faster or earlier than expected
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Generation X
People born between 1960-1980
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Generation Y
People born between 1980-1990
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Postpone
To arrange for an event
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To contract
To become smaller
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Onset
The beginning of something
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Reward
To give something to somebody because they have done something good
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Content
Happy and satisfied with what you are
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Homebody
A person that likes to stay at home
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Studious
Spending a lot of time studying or reading
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Grind
Hard work
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Senior
An older person (older than you)
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Distressed
Upset or anxious
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Predecessor
The people before...
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Risk factor
Something that increases risk
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To exacerbate
Make a problem, bad situation or negative feeling worse
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To congregate
Gather into a crowd or mass
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Relentlessly
Continuing in an extreme way, showing no sign of stopping
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Keenly
Intensely
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Steep
Rising or falling quickly, not gradually (something happening fast)
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Dire
Causing suffering, dreadful, terrible
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Ostracizing
Excluding form a society or group
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Deprived
Suffering lack of something important
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Myriad
A countless or extremely great number of things or people
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Compromised
Made worse
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Susceptibility
The state of being likely to be influenced or harmed by something
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Causation
The action of causing something
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Correlation
A mutual relationship or connection between two or more things
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Adolescene
When a young person develops from a child into an adult
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To impose
To force on someone
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Accustomed to
Familiar with something and accepting it as normal or usual
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Instill
To make somebody feel, think or behave in a particular way over a period of time
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Moderation
The quality of being reasonable and not being extreme
