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Current Events Vocabulary
Vocabulary from news stories that students bring in for discussion
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Language - English
Professional
04/03/2008

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detain
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to keep or capture someone
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maritime
Definition
to do with the ocean
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cull
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to kill animals in a controlled way
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constraints
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limits
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indecent
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inappropriate
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villainous
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evil, very bad
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colluding
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working with someone or helping someone secretly
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penned by
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written by someone
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segregate
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separate, discriminate
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wobbles
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make smallmovements side-to-side
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tumble
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to fall somewhere with rolling
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annul
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to cancel a contract
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incest
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illegal sex between family members
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stingy
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not generous with money
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opaque
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the opposite of transparent
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flout
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to deliberately and obviously break a rule or law
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parole
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early release from prison
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lethargic
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to be very tired, without energy
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profusion
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a lot of something
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flee
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to run away because of fear
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reckless
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careless and dangerous
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autopsy
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the examination of a dead body
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implore
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to beg someone to do something
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an isolationist
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someone who keeps themselves apart from others
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to preach
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to speak to someone in order to teach them something. Often has religious meaning
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cellar
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a small windowless room under the ground
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to lure
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to trick someone into following you
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allege
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to say something but to have no proof if it is true or not
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abduct
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to take someone against their will
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to skyrocket
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to increase very rapidly and suddenly
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ordeal
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a long, terrible event
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to handcuff someone
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to put handcuffs on their wrists
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dungeon
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an underground prison
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coerce
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to fore someone to do something they do not want to do
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to be at loggerheads
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to completely disagree with someone else's point of view
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proactive
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to slve a problem before it is a problem
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to coddle
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to treat someone likea baby
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to pester
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to bother someone
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nurture
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to care for someone
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to be incensed
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to be very very angry
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to outlaw something
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to make something illegal
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ember
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a piece of wood or coal that is not on fire but is still hot
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to accost someone
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to go up to someone and bother them or threaten them
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delinquency
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to crimes committed by young people
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illicit
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illegal
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bootlegged
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illegal
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to roam
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to wander around with no destination
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premises
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a building or home
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vat
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a very large container for holding liquids
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to be doped up
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to e drugged
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volatile
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something that could explode
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to evacuate
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to leave a place to avoid a disaster
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reverberate
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to echo
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dislodge
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to knock something loose
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to retain
Definition
to keep
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