Vocabulary

• fend off: To defend and keep (threats) at distance
• except for: Not including; excluding.
• other than: Except for; apart from.
• have at: To attack someone or something.
• at least: As a minimum
• request for: A formal application or appeal for something.
• intense: Very strong, great or extreme in degree
• extraordinary: Beyond what is ordinary; very unusual; remarkable
• significant: Large enough to be noticed or have an effect
• controversial: Causing a great deal of argument, or conflict
• expression: Act of making your thoughts and feelings known
• basically: Used before you explain something simply, clearly
• crisis: Unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty
• position: Person's opinion or attitude about something
• admit: To acknowledge that something is true or right
• trial: Hearing and judgment of a case in court
• pressure: Anxiety caused by difficult problems
• ability: The power, resources or skill to do something
• fraud: Use of dishonest ways to take something valuable
• conduct: Your behavior
• prime: To get a person ready for; prepare someone
• political: Being active or interested in government matters
• affect: To cause a change in something else
• maintain: To keep saying something a certain way
• require: To demand that someone does something
• grant: To admit an opinion is true but not fully agreeing
• admission: Act of allowing someone to enter
• lead: Wire for electricity, computer, etc.; cable
• corruption: State of being damaged or spoiled
• breach: To break laws or barriers (e.g. walls)
• responsibility: Job, task or thing you are expected to look after
• correspondent: Journalist, as one reporting from other countries
• leave: To go away from; depart
• minor: Not so large in size; not important or valuable
• remorse: Sense of guilt for something bad you did
• reconciliation: Getting two figures/accounts to match financially
• whatsoever: Used to add emphasis to an idea being expressed
• seize: To take a place with force, as by military action
• order: Religious or social group, as of nuns
• promise: To say you will certainly do something
• resign: To leave a job because you want to
• provoke: To deliberately annoy to make someone aggressive
• great: Very good; better than before
• step: Movement done as part of a particular dance
• opposition: Act of disagreeing or trying to stop something
• nation: Area or region controlled by a government and army
• innocence: Lack of guilt or responsibility for a crime
• pardon: To forgive for some error or fault; let off
• unconditional: With no demands made before agreeing
• govern: To officially control land and make policies
• life: All the living things e.g. animals, plants, humans
• fend: To try to manage for yourself without assistance
• clear: Empty; without anything in it or on it
• country: An area of land that is controlled by a government
• constitutional: Regarding laws that govern a nation and its people
• lose: To be unable to keep in check or control something
• give: Degree of flexibility in something, a material
• unity: Being in full agreement; being joined together
• people: Persons sharing culture, country, background, etc.
• politic: Careful what you say; diplomatic
• judicial: Concerning the orders and laws of a court