Próf 1 - articles Flashcards
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To shatter
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To break
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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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Outpouring
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A flood; stream of
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League executive
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The person with senior managerial responsibility in the league
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To suffocate
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To cause to die or vanish
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To post
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To make information available on the internet
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To follow suit
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To do the same thing as someone else
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To issue
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To formally send out
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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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To cite
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To mention, refer to
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Free agent
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A sports player who is not bound by a contract and so is eligible to join any team
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Marginal
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Not very important, not one of the main players
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Worh ethic
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The belief that work is morally good
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To carve a niche
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An area in which someone can use their abilities
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To draft
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To choose someone to do a special task
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To allude to
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To hint at; to suggest
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Genuine
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Honest and sincere
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Authentic
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Genuine; real
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Disclosure
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Making new or secret information known
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To divulge
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To make known private or sensitive information
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Groundbreaking
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Something very new and big change from other things of it’s type
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Eloquent
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Fluent or persuasive in speaking or writing
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Cerebral
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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 by one person or a group of people for another because thy share feelings, opinions, aims
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Custom
Custom-made; made or done to order
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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 suitably talented people for recruitment to one's own organization for sports 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 a 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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Homophobia
Having fear of homosexuality
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Amid
In the middle of
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En masse
In a 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 in 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
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Parade
A public progression, especially one celebrating a special day or event
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To march
To walk along public roads in an organized procession as a form of protest
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To take a stand
To make clear your opinion on something, that you're willing to fight for
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Resistance
Refusal to accept something new such as a plan, idea or a change
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Conspiracy
A secret plan by a group of people to do something bad or illegal
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Advocate
A person who strongly and publicly supports someone or something
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Denomination
The value of a particular coin or banknote
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Hassle
Something that causes problems or annoys you
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To outweigh
To be more important, valuable, useful than something else
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Shadow economy
Illicit economic activity existing alongside a country's official economy; a black market transactions and undeclared work
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Death knell
An event or a situation that is a sign of the end of something
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To budget
To plan the way you will spent the money you have, especially so you do not spend too much money
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To demonize
To describe someone or something as very bad or dangerous although they are not
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Migrant
A person who moves between countries to find work
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To prompt
To make somebody do something or cause something to happen
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Disability
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
Serious
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Tax revenues
The money that a government receives from taxes
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A badge
A small piece of metal or plastic with a design or words on it, that a person wears to show
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Cryptocurrency
Any system of electric money, used for buying and selling online and without the need for a central bank
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Inception
Beginning
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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
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
A medium of exchange is an intermediary instrument or a system used to facilitate the sale, purchase, or trade of goods between parties
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Boom and bust tendencies
Highs and lows
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To surge
To rise
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Wipe put
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 participated 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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Sidestep
Avoid
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Parallel
Similar to
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Banknote
A piece of paper money
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Monopoly
If a company or a government has a monopoly of a business or political activity, it has complete control of it so that other organizations cannot compete with it°
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Sweeping
Having a major effect
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Akin to
Similar to
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Blockchain
A technology that underpins digital currency. The tech allows digital information to be distributed, but not copied. That means each individual piece of data can only have one owner
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Estimate
A judgement that you can make without having the exact details
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Market capitalization
The value of a company that is traded on the stock market, calculated by multiplying the total number of shares by the present share price
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Asset
An item of property
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Utility
The quality of being useful
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Held in high regard
Respected and valued
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Modest
Not very large, expensive, important
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Moderately
To an average extent
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Upside
The more positive aspect of situation that is generally bad
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Has been shot
Has been got 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 real value
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Niche asset
A very specific benefit for a small number of people
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Era
A period of time, usually in history
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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 purposes
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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
Move together as a large group in the same direction (verb)
| A large group of insects moving together (noun)
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Kinetic energy
Energy associated with movement and motion
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Gamge-changer
A person, an idea, or an 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 a war in order to use them in the most efficient 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 places 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, very unpleasant
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Concept
Idea
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To comply with
To obey a rule or an order
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Rules of engagement
The ruled 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
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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 a 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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Unchaperoned
Unaccompanied or unsupervised
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Landline
Fixed telephone communications table, a telephone connected by such a fixed wire, specifically not wireless
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Generational
Connected with a 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 a 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 generally trend
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Millennial
A person who belongs to the generation who became adults around the year 2000
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Recession
A period of a temporary economic decline during which trade and industrial activity are reduced, generally identified by a fall in GPD in two successive quarters
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Surpass
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 something
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Markedly
In a way that is easy to notice
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Skyrocket
To increase quickly to a vert high level or amount
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On the brink
If you are on the brink of something you are almost in a very new, dangerous or exciting situation
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Decade
A period of ten years
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Crisis
A difficult or dangerous situation that needs serous 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 think it is true
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Profound
Very great; felt or experienced very strongly
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Allure
Power to attract; a quality that attracts people
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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 direction
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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 od 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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To prod
To persuade or try to persuade something 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
The group of elderly people who were born between the early 1960s and the middle of the 1970s
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Generation Y
The group of people who were born between the early 1980s and the end of the 1990s, who are mainly the children of the baby boomers and who are regarded as being very familiar with computers and electronic technology
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Postpone
To arrange for an event, to take place at a later time or date
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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, worked hard, etc.
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Content
Being happy and satisfied with what you are
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Homebody
A person who likes to stay at home, somebody unadventurous
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Studios
Spending a lot of time studying or reading
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Grind
Hard work
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Senior
An older person
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Distressed
Upset or anxious
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Predecessor
Something that comes before something else, in time or in series
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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
1) Rising or falling quickly
| 2) sudden and very big
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Dire
Causing suffering, dreadful, terrible
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Ostracizing
Excluding from a society or group
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Deprived
Suffering a lack of something
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Myriad
A countless or extremely great number of people or things
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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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Adolescence
The period following the onset of puberty during which a young person develops from a child inro 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
Instil something into somebody, to gradually 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
