Vocabulary

• in session: Actively meeting or conducting business.
• number of people: The total count of individuals within a group or gathering.
• down the drain: Wasted or lost completely.
• struggle: To try very hard to do something difficult
• debate: General public discussion of a topic
• necessarily: In a way that is needed/required/is unavoidable
• achieve: To succeed in doing good, usually by working hard
• demand: Desire customers have to buy product, service
• track: To use marks to follow a wild animal
• proper: Correct according to social or moral rules
• pressure: Anxiety caused by difficult problems
• increase: To make or become larger in size or amount
• implement: To start to do something you plan to do
• drain: Hole or pipe that water, waste etc. flows into
• convey: To carry or transport something
• issue: To make something available to be used or sold
• reach: To come to or arrive at a goal or destination
• address: Exact street location of a place
• session: Period of time used for a specific activity
• launch: Starting a new project; introducing new product
• stem: Long thin central part of a plant, bearing leaves
• record: Highest or most extreme level achieved
• talent: Natural ability of a person to do something well
• prove: To demonstrate truth by providing evidence
• mind: To be bothered or upset by something
• recruit: Person who has just joined the military
• target: A goal or amount you are trying to achieve
• foreign: Being of a different place or country
• haven: Place where people can feel safe and happy
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• offer: Price you say you are willing to pay for something
• government: Group of people and system that rule a nation
• program: To make someone act or think in a certain way
• fail: To be unsuccessful in passing a class or exam
• question: To ask for or try to get information
• opposition: Act of disagreeing or trying to stop something
• return: To hit something back to the other player or team
• effectiveness: Degree of how well something works or is done
• work: The product of some artistic or literary endeavor
• scholarship: Work of learning, studying, acquiring knowledge
• country: An area of land that is controlled by a government
• live: To be alive
• legislative: Having the power or ability to make laws
• recruitment: Act of enlisting people into the army
• stagger: To greatly surprise someone
• lackluster: (Of a performance) lacking brilliance or vitality
• legislator: Someone who makes or enacts laws
• doctoral: Concerning the highest academic degree