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Word | Meaning | Advanced |
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gerrymander | v: to manipulate the boundaries of an electoral district or voting constituency to gain political advantage for a particular party or group | |
probable | adj: likely to happen or likely to be true | |
president | n: the leader of a republic, for example, the US; the person in charge of the organization such as a company, university, club, etc. | |
elect | v: to choose someone for a specific position by voting for them; to decide or choose to do something | |
essentially | adv: relating to the essential features or concepts of anything | |
process | n: a series of actions or operations performed to achieve a particular outcome or goal; a systematic procedure or approach used to accomplish a specific task or objective; a method of treating milk to make it suitable for consumption or use in other dairy products | |
advantage | n: a condition or circumstance that puts one in a favorable or superior position; a beneficial feature or asset that someone or something has | |
district | n: a part of a country or town, especially one with particular features | |
democracy | n: a form of government in which the people have the authority to deliberate and decide legislation, or to choose governing officials to do so | |
republican | n: a person who supports or advocates for a particular form of government, typically one that has an elected head of state rather than a monarch; a member or supporter of the Republican Party in the United States | |
governor | n: the person who holds the highest executive office in a state or province | |
boundary | n: a real or imaginary line that marks the limit or extent of something and separates it from other things or places | |
separate | v: to force, take, or pull apart; mark as different | |
Senate | n: a legislative body, especially the upper house of a parliament | |
salamander | n: any of various typically terrestrial amphibians that resemble lizards and that return to water only to breed | |
gazette | n: a newspaper or official publication, typically containing public notices, announcements, and official information; (verb) to publish or announce in an official gazette | |
viola | n: a stringed instrument of the violin family, slightly larger than a violin and tuned a fifth lower | |
divide | v: to separate or cause to separate into parts or groups | |
crack | v: to break or cause to break without dividing into separate parts; (noun) a line on the surface of something along which it has separated without breaking | |
drawing | n: the act of making a picture with a pencil, pen, or other instruments on paper, cardboard, or other material | |
opponent | n: a person against whom you are playing or fighting in a game, competition, debate, etc. | |
cattle | n: cows, bulls, and buffalos that are raised for their milk or meat as farm animals | |
opposition | n: the act of disagreeing or resisting; the state of strong disagreement | |
voter | n: a person who votes or has a legal right to vote in a political election | |
strength | n: the quality or state of being physically, or sometimes mentally, strong | |
influence | n: the ability to affect someone’s or something’s character, growth, or behavior, or the effect itself | |
deny | v: to state that one refuses to admit the existence or truth of something | |
folk | n: people in general, especially those of a particular group or type | |
bloc | n: a group of countries or political parties that have similar interests or goals and often act together | |
dilute | v: to make a substance less concentrated by adding a liquid or another substance to it | |
surrounding | adj: that is near or around, or closely encircling something | |
crazy | adj: stupid or not sensible; very angry | |
politician | n: a person who is a member of a government or law-making organization, especially as an elected member of parliament, etc. | |
creative | adj: relating to or involving the use of skill and original and unusual ideas to create something | |
surround | v: to be all around something or somebody | |
stretch | v: to make or be capable of making anything longer or broader without hurting or breaking | |
relative | adj: considered and evaluated through comparison with something else |