Vocab-december-01

Question 1

To try to deal with something or someone

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To tackle

Question 2

Freedom from punishment or from the unpleasent results of something that has been done

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Impunity

Question 3

The range of a subject coverd by a book, programme, discussion, class, etc

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Scope

Question 4

Authority given to a person to for someone else, such as by voting for them in an election, or person who this authority is given to

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Proxy

Question 5

The murder od a whole group of people, especially a whole nation, race or religious group

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Genocide

Question 6

the action of forcing people to leave an area or country because of their racial or national group

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Ethnic cleansing

Question 7

A) to cause someone to feel sudden strong emotion

B) to defeat someone or something by using a lot of force

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Overwhelm

Question 8

When someone does something extremely violent and shocking

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Atrocity

Question 9

To surround a place, especially with an army, to prevent people or supplies getting in or out

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Besiege

Question 10

To show someone where they should go, or to make someone go where you want them to go

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Usher

Question 11

Making you feel serious or thing about serious matters

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Sobering

Question 12

Person who believes in the ideas and principles of someone famous and tries to live the way they do or did

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Disciple

Question 13

To surround and cover something or someone completely

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Engulf

Question 14

Burnt and black

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Charred

Question 15

A) strongly affecting how a situation will progress or end

B) able to make decisions quickly and confidently, or showing this quality

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Decisiv

Question 16

An explosion

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Blast

Question 17

An act of opposition, sometimes using violance by many people in one area of a country against those who are in power

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Uprising

Question 18

Something which has developed from something larger which already existed

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Offshoot

Question 19

A person who has escaped from their own country for political, religious or economic reasons or because of a war

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Refugee

Question 20

A person who tries in an unofficial way to prevent crime, or to catch and punish someone who has committed a crime, especially because they do not think that official organization, such as the police, are controlling crime effectively

Answer 20

Vigilante

Question 21

1. hold tightly [transitive] to hold something very tightly:
2. have a strong effect [transitive] to have a strong effect on someone or something:
3. interest somebody [transitive] to hold someone’s attention and interest:
4. not slip [intransitive and transitive] if something grips a surface, it stays on it without slipping:

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Grip

Question 22

making you feel nervous and slightly frightened:

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Creepy

Question 23

an event that is ……, especially an unpleasant one, will happen very soon

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Imminent

Question 24

continuing to do what you want, even after you have been told to stop - used to show disapproval:

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(eng) Wilful (us) willful

Question 25

to ignore something or treat it as unimportant:

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Disregard

Question 26

1 [countable] a false idea or belief, especially one that a lot of people believe is true [= misconception]:

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Fallacy

Question 27

continuing without stopping [= constant]:

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Incessant

Question 28

the process of thinking deeply about your own thoughts, feelings, or behaviour

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Introspection

Question 29

1. give somebody/something a ..... to quickly push your fingers, a stick etc into something or someone: 2. American English informal a criticism of someone or something

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Poke

Question 30

seeming to be everywhere - sometimes used humorously:

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Ubiquitous

Question 31

1. large in size, amount, or degree:

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Extensive

Question 32

slow and unwilling:

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Reluctant

Question 33

Xxxxx memories, dreams, descriptions etc are so clear that they seem real [≠ vague]:

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Vivid

Question 34

to steal things, especially from shops or homes that have been damaged in a war or riot:

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Loot

Question 35

a) if an industry, company, activity etc is in the ...., it is not doing well b) if you are in the ...., you are feeling sad

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Doldrums

Question 36

seeming calm and not upset or angry

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Composed

Question 37

take something in your ..... British English take something in .... American English to not allow something to annoy, embarrass, or upset you: When the boss asked Judy to stay late, she took it in .....

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take something in your stride

Question 38

1. if you are ..... , you realize that you are not as important, good, kind etc as you thought you were

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Humble