Yongqing Zhu (Cathy)
Deliberate: done or acting in a careful and unhurried way,
fully considered
Coarse: rough or loose in texture or grain
Agonize: undergo great mental anguish through worrying about
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Premeditation: think out or plan
Anonymous: not identified by name, of unknow name
Distort: give a misleading or false account or impression of
Effectuation: put into force or operation
Upbeat: an unaccented beat preceding an accented beat
Pessimism: a tendency to see the worst aspect of things or
believe that the worst will happen, a lack of hope or confidence in the
furture.
VOCABULARY FROM: ‘Walking the Walk’ by Hendrick Hertzberg
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CRISTINA VARELA
1. embedded: occuring as a gramatical constituent (as a verb or clause) within a like constituent.
“ His impulse to bridge gaps -to harmonize political, cultural, and racial
differences much as he harmonized the disparities embedded in his own melange of identities- was indispensable to his political accent.”
2. melange: noun. An unorganized collection or mixture of various things.
3. defiance: refusal to obey.
“ It was a manifiest in his defiance of the latest Republican attempt to blackmail him by threatening to force the government into default.”
4. amid: in or into the middle of.
“That one, coming amid a terrifying financial crisis…”
5. quagmire: a difficult puzzling or embarassing situation from which there is no easy escape.
“ The modern crisis of liberalism began in the 1960s with the desintegration of New Frontier/Great Society euphoria in the quagmire of Vietnam, continued through the riouts turmoils of the late 60s and 70s, and crested with the Reagan ascendancy of the 80s.”
6. riotus: causing or intended to cause laughter.
7. turmoils: a disturbed or uneasy state.
8. ascendancy: controlling powers or influence over others.
Gianinna Siuffi
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Source: United Nations building New York
1. Extreme poverty: Extreme poverty is defined as average daily consumption of $1.25 or less and means living on the edge of subsistence. source: The World Bank Data.
2. Gender equality: Gender equality is the measurable equal representation of women and men. Gender equality does not imply that women and men are the same, but that they have equal value and should be accorded equal treatment. source: International Planned Parenthood Federation.
3. Under-five mortality rate: Probability of dying between birth and exactly five years of age expressed per 1,000 live births. Source: UNICEF
4. AIDS: Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) is the name of the fatal clinical condition that results from infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which progressively damages the body's ability to protect itself from disease organisms. Thus, many AIDS deaths result from pneumonia, tuberculosis or diarrhoea; death is not caused by HIV itself but by one or more of these infections. Source: fao.org
5. Environmental sustainability: Sustainability means meeting our needs today without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Source: UIA/AIA World Congress of Architects, June 1993.
6. Biodiversity: The 1992 Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) carries an internationally accepted definition of biodiversity as “… the variability among living organisms from all sources, inter alia, terrestrial,marine and other aquatic ecosystems and ecological complexes of which they are part, this includes diversity within species, between species and of ecosystems” (Glowka et,al., 1994).
7. Landlocked countries: Approximately one-fifth of the world's countries are landlocked and have no access to the oceans. There are 43 landlocked countries that do not have direct access to an ocean or ocean-accessible sea (such as the Mediterranean Sea). They have the disadvantageous situation of needing to rely upon neighboring countries for access to seaports. For example, Ethiopia relies on Eritrea for access to the Red Sea and recent conflicts have made that access difficult.
8. Non-discrimination: The principle of non-discrimination in trade relations would restrain destructive economic nationalism, and help prevent the resurgence of protectionist policies. Source: Cambridge Dictionary.