Vocabulary

• for the better: Resulting in improvement; to a more favorable condition.
• page in: Contact someone by pager urgently.
• with dignity: In a manner that shows respect and seriousness.
• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• in the world: Used to emphasize a question expressing surprise, confusion, disbelief
• into power: To gain political control or leadership position.
• with good grace: Doing something willingly and politely without complaint.
• set out: To arrange something in an orderly fashion
• spend more time: To dedicate a greater amount of time to a particular activity or person.
• commitment: Permanent love or concern for person, thing
• privilege: Advantage or right given to only certain people
• vital: Needed to support life; essential
• majority: Amount that is more than half of a group
• improve: To make, or become, something better
• poverty: State of being poor
• general: Widespread, normal or usual
• brilliant: Having a great amount of intelligence or talent
• dedicate: To state a person's name in book, song, in respect
• dignity: Person of high rank deserving respect
• despair: To have lost all hope; lose heart
• prime: To get a person ready for; prepare someone
• sake: Japanese rice wine
• inflation: Act of filling something with air or gas
• rip: To tear or split roughly or cause to tear or split
• decision: Choice made after thinking; final judgment
• complete: To finish or reach the end of doing something
• value: Importance you attach to something
• secure: To get or achieve something with certainty
• deliver: To give birth to a child; help a woman give birth
• asylum: Allowing persecuted people to stay in your country
• lift: Picking someone up in a car and taking to a place
• generation: Act or process of producing or causing something
• respect: To follow the established rules
• investment: Something purchased hoping its value will increase
• economy: Using money, resources in a careful, effective way
• pride: Sense of your own importance and worth
• prove: To demonstrate truth by providing evidence
• civil: Of citizens of a country; not military, criminal
• wealth: Amount of money or possessions you own, e.g. large
• ensure: To make something sure, certain, or safe
• recess: An area that is set back in a room or building
• singular: Form of a word referring to only one person/thing
• restore: To return a thing to its original condition
• proud: Very good; worthy of making one pleased
• promise: To say you will certainly do something
• committee: Group of people who do or decide something
• grace: Dignified polite behavior, as when things go badly
• staff: Employees of a company
• support: To give assistance or advice to someone
• election: Process of choosing someone by voting
• government: Group of people and system that rule a nation
• stand: To be a candidate in an election
• contest: Struggle or competition between rivals
• rise: To wake up and get out of bed after sleeping
• change: To exchange one set of clothes for another
• question: To ask for or try to get information
• fast: In a way that is difficult to move or change
• disappointment: Feeling or state of not being satisfied
• bankrupt: Unable to pay debts
• decency: Behavior that is good, moral and acceptable
• landslide: Slide of dirt and rock down a mountain or cliff
• successor: Person who takes over the position of another
• austerity: Lack of luxury or plenty
• uplift: To make someone feel happier or more hopeful