Vocabulary

• as for: Concerning; regarding.
• family ties: The connections and relationships between members of a family.
• positive: Showing agreement or support for something
• typically: In a normal or usual way
• acquire: To get or earn something by thinking or working
• spouse: Someone's husband or wife
• accessible: Able to be entered, reached or used
• disrupt: To cause a disturbance in an activity in progress
• issue: To make something available to be used or sold
• security: Department in a company in charge of protection
• retain: To continue to have or use; keep the quality of
• application: Software program, e.g. for smart phone
• facilitate: To make an action or process easier
• abandon: To discard or intentionally get rid of an item
• reduce: To try to decrease, e.g. your weight if overweight
• receive: To get something someone has given or sent to you
• submit: To accept a superior force has power over you
• representative: Typical example of a particular category
• gather: To bring objects together into one place
• allow: To admit the validity or truth of something
• simple: Not hard to understand or do; not complex
• justice: Quality of being fair, equal, or just
• public: Owned by the government
• requirement: A demand that someone does something
• step: Movement done as part of a particular dance
• business: A company formed for making profit
• convenient: Allowing you to do something with less trouble
• cumbersome: Being slow, heavy or difficult to move
• regain: To get something back that had been lost
• area: Amount of measured space
• return: To hit something back to the other player or team
• life: All the living things e.g. animals, plants, humans
• united: To join or come together for the same goal
• live: To be alive
• dual: (Of two similar things) existing/used side by side
• citizenship: Status of a citizen who has rights and duties
• nationality: Being a citizen of country you live, were born in
• law: Field of study that relates to the legal profession
• restoration: Renewing/repairing building to its original state
• vietnam: A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea; achieved independence from France in
• vietnamese: Concerning the culture and people of Vietnam
• residency: Training for a junior doctor in hospital
• year: Unit of time equal to 12 months or 365 or 366 days
• office: Room or building used for business