Vocabulary:


- adaptable: adj. able to change in order to be successful in new and different situations.


- breach:n.a break in friendly relations between people or groups

- consume: v. if a feeling or idea consomes you, it affects you very strongly, so that you cannot think about anything else.

- conviction: n. a very strong belief or opinion.

- denial: n. a condition in which you refuse to admit or believe that something bad exists or has happened
- diplomacy: n. a job or activity of managing the relationships between countries

- enforce: v. to make (something) happen: to force or cause (something).

- expansion: n. when something increases in size, range, amount etc.

- flexibility: n. the ability to change or be changed easily to suit a different situation.

- hindrance: n. something or someone that makes it difficult for you to do something.

- intimacy: n. a state of having a close personal relationship with someone.

- maintain: v. to make something continue in the same way or at the same standard as before.

- marginal: adj. marginal people or groups are not considered powerful or important (they are not mainstream)

- non-committal: adj. not telling or showing what you think about something.

- ponder: v. to spend time thinking carefully and seriously about a problem, a difficult question, or something that has happened.

- repatriate: v. to send someone back to their own country

- speak with authority: v. to be sure of what you are saying because of your knowledge or experience.

- tendency: n. a part of someone's character that makes them likely to behave in a certain way.

- unresolved: adj. an unresolved problem or question has not been answered or solved

- unintelligible: adj. impossible to understand.

- verbalize: v. to express something in words.


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