Newspaper Words Flashcards
Compensate
To compensate someone for money or things that they have lost, means to pay them money or give them something to replace those things. The damages are designed to compensate victims for their direct losses.
Expropriate
To take sth from another’s possession for one’s own use
Intuitive:
(Adj) If you have an intuitive idea or feeling about something, you feel that it is true although you have no evidence or proof of it
Abdomen
(Formal) Your abdomen is the part of your body below your chest where your stomach and intestines are. He went into the hospital to undergo tests for a pain in his abdomen.
repercussion
count noun
(Formal) If an action or event has repercussions, it causes unpleasant things to happen some time after the original action or event. It was an effort which was to have painful repercussions.
Stoical
adjective
(Formal, To Express Approval) If you say that someone behaves in a stoical way, you approve of them because they do not complain or show they are upset in bad situations. She never ceased to admire the stoical courage of those soldiers.
stoically adverb She put up with it all stoically.
impromptu
adjective
An impromptu action is one that you do without planning or organizing it in advance. This afternoon the Palestinians held an impromptu press conference.
Rehab
uncount noun (Informal) Rehab is the process of helping someone to lead a normal life again after they have been ill, or when they have had a drug or alcohol problem. Rehab is short for rehabilitation. ...a hospital rehab program.
Bewildered
—adjective
completely puzzled or confused; perplexed.
Reiterate
—verb (used with object), re·it·er·at·ed, re·it·er·at·ing.
to say or do again or repeatedly; repeat, often excessively.
Envy
uncount noun
Envy is the feeling you have when you wish you could have the same thing or quality that someone else has. Gradually he began to acknowledge his feelings of envy towards his mother.
transitive verb
If you envy someone, you wish that you had the same things or qualities that they have. I don’t envy the young ones who’ve become TV superstars and know no other world.
singular noun
If a thing or quality is the envy of someone, they wish very much that they could have or achieve it. Their economy is the envy of the developing world.
Turbulent
adjective
A turbulent time, place, or relationship is one in which there is a lot of change, confusion, and disorder. They had been together for five or six turbulent years of break-ups and reconciliations.
Usurp
transitive verb (Formal) If you say that someone usurps a job, role, title, or position, they take it from someone when they have no right to do this. Did she usurp his place in his mother's heart?
