Vocabulary

• stay in: To remain inside one's home.
• chip away: To gradually make something weaker or smaller.
• in itself: Considered alone or without reference to anything else; intrinsically.
• awkward: Lacking smooth movement
• chronic: Always or often doing something, e.g. lying
• struggle: To try very hard to do something difficult
• situation: Place, position or area that something is in
• grab: To take and hold something quickly
• crisis: Unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty
• pursue: To follow and try to catch, or to reach a goal
• achieve: To succeed in doing good, usually by working hard
• variety: Particular type of thing or person
• emotional: Causing, feeling, or appealing to the emotions
• relationship: Connection between two or more people or things
• increase: To make or become larger in size or amount
• prime: To get a person ready for; prepare someone
• conference: Series of lectures held as an event
• autonomy: The power to make independent decisions
• military: Army or armed forces
• political: Being active or interested in government matters
• personality: Way someone is or reacts to life or other people
• confront: To make someone, e.g. who has lied, face the truth
• democracy: System of government in which everyone is equal
• purchase: To buy something; to get by paying money for it
• modest: Not large in amount, size, etc.; moderate
• interest: Best or most advantageous thing for someone
• break: To create a new record e.g. running the 100m dash
• economy: Using money, resources in a careful, effective way
• major: High-ranking officer in the army
• press: Machine using pressure to shape, flatten, squeeze
• correspondent: Journalist, as one reporting from other countries
• strategic: Concerned with strategy; well thought out
• foreign: Being of a different place or country
• constitution: Statement of fundamental principles of a country
• defense: Argument in support of something
• forge: To create something by hammering hot metal
• manage: To survive hardships and difficulties; to cope
• flatter: To praise in a rather false way, to get something
• chip: To break a small piece off something such as a cup
• last: Final; with nothing following; after all others
• fail: To be unsuccessful in passing a class or exam
• pull: Act of breathing in smoke, as from a pipe
• alliance: Group of people/organizations working together
• include: To make someone, something part of a group
• wrestle: To fight someone by holding parts of their body
• hold: To agree to keep something for someone
• understand: To know the meaning of language, what someone says
• university: High-level educational institution; college
• rotate: To regularly change people who perform a role
• list: To lean to one side, like a boat or ship
• fight: To argue or quarrel with someone about something
• novice: A person with little or no experience in something
• successor: Person who takes over the position of another
• uphill: From lower ground to higher ground
• nick: Person's name
• weaponry: Collection of weapons and weapon-like instruments
• deflation: When prices of good/service fall instead of rising
• sumo: Japanese form of wrestling
• grandfather: Your mother's or father's father