Vocabulary
Vocabulary
51 Vocabulary of the ‘perfectionnement’ class terms
- Abetting
- Helping someone to do something wrong or illegal
- Acquiescence
- Reluctant agreement
- Application
- A formal request for permission to do or have something
- Apportion
- To divide something such as payments between two or more people, organisations, etc…
- Appraisal
- Évaluation
- axe
- to close a business, stop provinding a service
- backlash
- a strong feeling among a group of people in reaction to a change or recent events in society or politics
- Balancing act
- A situation in which a person tries to give care and attention to two or more activities at the same time
- bandwidth
- the range of frequencies used in a specific telecommunications signal
- blight
- something that damages or spoils something else
- brand
- to describe someone or something as bad, especially whenthey do not deserve this
- buttress
- to make someone or something stronger by supporting them in some way
- careen
- to move forward quickly and suddenly, going from side to side in an uncontrolled way
- Census
- An official periodic count of population including information such as sew, age, occupations…
- cloathsome
- Highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust
- Cross Hairs
- They help you aim your gun accurately
- Curb
- To control or limit something in order to prevent it from having a harmful effect
- Debunk
- To prove that something such as an idez or belief is false and silly
- Downturn
- A decline in economic, business or other activity
- eavesdrop
- to spy
- Embed
- to fix something firmly into a substance
- encroachment
- a gradual advance beyond usual or acceptable limits
- Flesh out
- To give substance to (an argument, description,etc)
- Float
- To suggest an idea for people to consider to see how they will react
- forestall
- to prevent something from happening by doing something before it can happen
- Forthcoming
- Happening or coming soon
- Implementing
- Carrying out
- Example: Some government are implementing financial reforms
- Insight
- A chance to understand it or learn more about it
- Example: This report gives us an insight into the crisis
- K-12
- Kindergarten to twelfth grade = K-12 education
- meekly
- quietly and gently
- MEP
- A person who represents an area of European country in the European Parliament
- monitor
- watch carefully
- Mull
- Think over a problem for a long time
- onset
- the beginning of something, especially something bad
- Outskirts
- The outer parts of a town or city
- peer
- to look very carefully, especially because something is difficult to see
- Pledge
- To make a formal, usually public, promise that you will do something
- Provision
- The noun derived from “to provide”
- Quadruple
- To increase fourfold
- Reluctant
- Unwilling and hesitant; disinclined
- scrutiny
- careful examination of someone or something
- Smuggle
- To move goods or persons illegally into or out of a country
- Spokesperson
- Someone chosen to speak officially for a group, organisation or government
- Springboard
- A beginning from which an entreprise is launched
- Staunch
- Loyal, and showing strong belief in something or strong support for something
- Stem
- To stop something from happening, spreading or developing
- Thoroughfare
- The main road through a place
- Throwing their hat into
- Are investing
- Example: “Many companies are throwing their hat into the translation technology ring”
- tiddl island
- cannot always be reach on foot
- worked up
- upset