Vocabulary

• perception: Way in which one sees or understands something
• figure: To appear in a game, play or event
• reveal: To show something that was hidden before
• debate: General public discussion of a topic
• passionate: Being easily excited to strong emotions
• sustainable: Capable of continuing for a long time
• slip: Act of beginning to fall from losing balance
• reality: What is true, as opposed to what is imagined
• rational: Able to think clearly
• increase: To make or become larger in size or amount
• threshold: Degree or level at which something begins
• issue: To make something available to be used or sold
• transparent: Being open to see and to public criticism
• register: To record your name on an official list; sign up
• release: To free someone from a responsibility or burden
• compare: To consider how similar and different things are
• asylum: Allowing persecuted people to stay in your country
• survey: Broad view or general description of something
• drop: Distance between a higher and a lower level
• couple: To join something to something else
• honest: Good, truthful, sincere, or faithful; trustworthy
• reduce: To try to decrease, e.g. your weight if overweight
• commission: Money paid for a service, e.g. money exchanging
• fall: Season after summer and before winter; Autumn
• correspondent: Journalist, as one reporting from other countries
• phase: Different stages of the moon from new to full
• suggest: To mention something that could be done; propose
• leave: To go away from; depart
• aim: Act of pointing something at a target
• visible: Can see, easily seen or understood
• british: Concerning the culture and people of British
• integration: Act of bringing things together into a whole
• accommodation: Adapting to become better at handling situations
• public: Owned by the government
• government: Group of people and system that rule a nation
• bring: To take or go with someone to a place
• contest: Struggle or competition between rivals
• change: To exchange one set of clothes for another
• future: Time that is to come after the present
• immigration: Process of moving your home to a new country
• migration: Process of moving to live in another place
• interesting: Taking your attention; making you want to know
• steadily: At a steady rate or pace; reliably; constantly
• think: To have an idea about something without certainty
• fiscal: Concerning government spending and taxing
• contentious: Tending to create argument or division
• tank: Container for holding liquid or gas
• parliamentary: Related to, or suitable for, a parliament
• datum: Item of factual information
• confirmation: Approval or check of something
• politic: Careful what you say; diplomatic
• compile: To put programming data into a computer
• adamant: Determined not to change your opinion
• lag: Delay between two events
• skew: To affect data making them incorrect or inaccurate
• tracker: Person using marks to follow a wild animal
• tory: British conservative politician