Vocabulary

• get out of: To leave or escape responsibilities, troubles
• context: Set of facts surrounding a person or event
• progress: To move forward or toward a place or goal
• completely: In every way or as much as possible
• force: Group of persons trained for military action; army
• attempt: To try to do something challenging or difficult
• poverty: State of being poor
• demand: Desire customers have to buy product, service
• parliament: Elected officials who govern a country (in the UK)
• commit: To do something bad, usually a crime
• pressure: Anxiety caused by difficult problems
• frustration: Annoyance because things don't go the way you want
• contract: To become ill as a result of getting a disease
• prime: To get a person ready for; prepare someone
• venue: Place, area where an event is held or takes place
• acknowledge: To say you have received a letter, gift, etc.
• ignore: To not listen to, look at, or pay attention to
• remain: To be left behind; to continue to exist
• accountability: Responsibility to someone or for some activity
• involve: To have or be included as a part of something
• deliver: To give birth to a child; help a woman give birth
• protest: To argue against something in a forceful way
• generation: Act or process of producing or causing something
• break: To create a new record e.g. running the 100m dash
• competitive: Being strongly driven to win or be better than
• deter: To stop people doing a thing; stop from happening
• chamber: Enclosed space that contains something
• correspondent: Journalist, as one reporting from other countries
• social: Involving activity with people, e.g. in free time
• briefly: Using little time or resources
• organize: To arrange and plan things, e.g. a party
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• justify: To give good reasons for something
• government: Group of people and system that rule a nation
• argue: To fight or disagree over something
• grow: To get bigger and more mature; make plants do this
• crackdown: Increased effort to enforce the law or a rule
• resignation: Reluctant acceptance when a thing can't be avoided
• opposition: Act of disagreeing or trying to stop something
• leak: Act of (gas, liquid) escaping through a small hole
• entrance: A place where you enter a house or other building
• start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
• finally: used especially at the beginning of a sentence to introduce the last point or idea
• march: To force someone to walk somewhere
• designate: To officially choose for a position; appoint
• return: To hit something back to the other player or team
• remove: To get rid of something completely
• unemployment: Number of people without jobs in a country
• residence: Place where a person lives
• meme: Idea, value or pattern of behavior in a culture
• detain: To keep someone somewhere, e.g. in jail
• cockroach: Insect with a hard, flat wing and long antennae