1) Meaning: OUTBREAK

A time when something suddenly begins, especially a disease or something else

dangerous or unpleasant:

 In 2001, a number of farms culled their flocks in connection with the OUTBREAK
of foot-and-mouth disease.
 A massive OUTBREAK of the bubonic plague in 1635 further diminished the
population.
 A class action lawsuit linked to this OUTBREAK was recently settled.
 Even so, an OUTBREAK will have to be paid for.
 Maybe you remember the OUTBREAK of foot-and-mouth disease?
 Until the OUTBREAK of war, these aircraft would have flown the tri-color roundel.
 The origin of the OUTBREAK is, however, still being investigated and it is too early
to draw any firm conclusions.
 Following the OUTBREAK of war, in five undersea patrols, he sank 16 ships
totaling 109,074 tons; 22 people died.
 The liberal group is backing the policy of emergency vaccinations to restrict the
OUTBREAK and spread of the virus.
 The stakes are very high and the costs of failing to bring the OUTBREAK under
control are very high.
 There are many lessons to be learnt from the experiences of the OUTBREAK.
 The report is particularly good - indeed it is its main strength - on the measures
needed to combat any future OUTBREAK.
 I support measures to prevent a similar OUTBREAK of foot and mouth disease, as
proposed in the report.
 The county was excluded from the provincial championship in 1941 due to an
OUTBREAK of foot-and-mouth disease in the county.
 The medical team gradually contain the OUTBREAK until only one unidentified
case remains.

2) Meaning: DELIMITATION.

The marking or describing of the limits of something:

 As the number of known species gradually increased, a great deal of confusion

developed over the DELIMITATION of genera.
 A clear DELIMITATION of competences would help there.

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  Attention is paid also to regionalization, which covers the proper techniques of
space DELIMITATION into regions.
 The figures in brackets are the number of electoral divisions in the previous (1913)
DELIMITATION.
 Kaipamangalam assembly segment also came into existence in 2008, following
DELIMITATION of legislative assembly constituencies.
 The figures in brackets are the number of electoral divisions in the previous
(1947) DELIMITATION.
 Both countries submissions mentioned that neither has signed any maritime
boundary DELIMITATION agreements with any of its neighbouring states.
 There must be a limitation or DELIMITATION which it would be valuable to know.
 Licences issued prior to DELIMITATION the vehicles can be either saloon car
design or wheelchair accessible type vehicles.
 The precise DELIMITATION between these languages is fleeting and
controversial.
 The representation by province, under the fifth DELIMITATION report of 1928, is
set out in the table below.
 The validity and DELIMITATION of the subgenera are somewhat disputed.
 Redistribution is a form of boundary DELIMITATION that changes electoral
district boundaries, usually in response to periodic census results.
 A DELIMITATION commission sat in 1978 to determine how to reduce the
previous fifty constituencies to twenty.
 The process of boundary DELIMITATION in the ocean encompasses the natural
prolongation of geological features and outlying territory.

3) Meaning: CEDE

To give something such as control, power, or a right to someone else, especially

unwillingly:

 In practice authors often CEDE their rights to publishers, who then enforce the
exclusive right and some are members of societies that enforce their rights on
their behalf.
 The agriculture, regional economic base, begins to CEDE place to tourism.
 Treaties are made on many occasions and some are minor; for example, to CEDE
a distant islet or make a particular provision for some commercial matter.
 They admit the principle, and then pro-CEDE to shrink from sanctions.
 However, many in the white, rural, southern-based church were not willing to
CEDE that much power and balked at the plan.
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  Several leaders believed that those representatives did not have the authority to
CEDE land, and had not gained consensus from the full council or tribe.
 Pressure from miners and mining companies forced the tribes to CEDE sections
of the mountains in 1885.
 We made it clear that in the areas of oil, coal and overall energy policy we were
not prepared to CEDE sovereignty.
 North of here, the forests CEDE slightly as the amount of fields along the
highway increases.
 Small burghs, conversely, were to CEDE most of their duties to the county
councils.
 The king CEDEs that only which belonged to him; lands he had previously
granted, were not his to CEDE.
 Advertisers CEDE control over where their brand will appear, as publishers
browse offers and pick which to run on their websites.
 As we have heard, in some cases governing bodies will CEDE their powers to the
forum; in others they will not unless formal arrangements apply.
 We certainly do not intend to CEDE our proper share of benefits.
 The forum does not have power over that unless the governors CEDE that power
or the teacher takes up employment with the forum.

4) Meaning: AUTOCRATI

› controlled by one leader who has total power, and who does not allow anyone
else to make decisions:

 Additionally, in more AUTOCRATIC nations, women are less likely to have their
interests represented.
 His blunt, critical and AUTOCRATIC management style turned off employees and
the public.
 Secondly, figures of authority in that age tended to be aloof by present-day
standards, and were generally AUTOCRATIC in manner.
 The AUTOCRATIC management has been successful as it provides strong
motivation to the manager.
 He describes his AUTOCRATIC grandmother as an eccentric socialite.
 He dismisses his AUTOCRATIC counsellors and bows to the will of his people.
 In this book he reveals his idea that living under the AUTOCRATIC system is equal
to slavery.
 His reign was characterized by an AUTOCRATIC style of leadership and initiatives
to modernize the economy.
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  The regime continues its anti-democratic methods and AUTOCRATIC practices
against any protestors.
 As a result of such dominance, the leaders of political parties of the country tend
to take an AUTOCRATIC tone.
 Some disapprove of the AUTOCRATIC character of the papal office.
 Measures are being taken which bolster the increasingly AUTOCRATIC powers of
major economic interests.
 They also brought totalitarian autocracy, bringing all aspects of life under
AUTOCRATIC control.
 Generally speaking, they had AUTOCRATIC power within their provinces.
 Such settlements tend to transform society from an AUTOCRATIC mode into
more pluralistic, democratic forms.

5) Meaning:

1) to appear, esp. when seeming large and threatening:

2) if an unpleasant event looms, it will probably happen and makes people worry:
3) LOOM LARGE: if something looms large, it becomes very important and could
cause serious problems:

 The more familiar colonial strategy of conquest and plunder always LOOMED in
the background as perhaps an easier option.
 Most 'poor' weavers owned their own LOOMS, but the few who did not were
poor.
 When payoffs are in between thresholds, uncertainty LOOMS large.
 Textile production was the dominant manufacturing sector, whether measured
by employment at spindles and wheels and at LOOMS, or by value of output.
 When the shadow of the future LOOMS over the players, they may be more
inclined to co-operate in the present encounter.
 From the prices noted for the LOOMS, it appears that the great majority of the
forty-two cases involved two BROADLOOMS.
 There is a stronger disposition to position for dealing with national and
international environmental problems LOOMING ahead.
 In the 1930s the cloth manufacturers made some attempts to increase the
number of power LOOMS per weaver above the standard four.
 A performer in the wings is therefore confronted with both the LOOMING
immensity of possibility and the crushing necessity for immediate and particular
action.
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  What once LOOMED large has shrunk in significance.
 Women primarily used vertical LOOMS that produced cloths averaging 21 inches
in width.
 In the second quarter of the nineteenth century perhaps 200,000 weavers left
their LOOMS rather than work for so little.
 However, LOOMS that broke down could result in damaged cloth, and thus
could cost piece-rated workers dearly, both in fines levied and in time lost.
 Perspectives LOOMS when we turn to courts rather than regulatory agencies for
controls.
 However, the fear of busting the curve and causing the other student to fail the
course now LOOMS LARGE.

 6) Meaning:

 a pretended reason for doing something that is used to hide the real reason:

 Safety must never be used as a PRETEXT for artificially delaying the entry into
service of the various sections, however.
 We are also calling for the release of the solider, which will remove any PRETEXT
for continuing attacks.
 As a matter of principle, the lack of skilled workers used as a PRETEXT for this
should be removed
 He also called upon religion as a PRETEXT in diplomacies.
 However, we do not accept measures which might be a PRETEXT for the
criminalisation of political activity.
 Everyone wants gender balance in theory, but finds a PRETEXT to fail to deliver it
in practice.
 Soloman is filled with guilt and decides to leave the place on the PRETEXT of
higher education abroad.
 Some reject applicants for continuing and ongoing training on the PRETEXT that
they are too young or too old.
 He follows her to her home on PRETEXT of selling her eggs.
 Pinto gets angry with the supposedly wrong attitudes of the workers who he
assumes go on strike under any PRETEXT.
 Under this PRETEXT, whoever comes into possession of it first is the rightful
owner.
 Protecting the spiritual health of children is just a shameful PRETEXT exploited by
insecure politicians.
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  On the PRETEXT of the need for competition, you are destroying public services.
 Furthermore, information was withheld, on the PRETEXT of not causing panic.

7) Meaning:

The act or process of forcing people by law to join the armed services

 Ever since the war began he's been worried that the government will introduce
CONSCRIPTION.
 The United States abolished CONSCRIPTION. in 1973.
 I wondered if compulsory CONSCRIPTION. might be a factor in making young
people more responsible.
 My grandfather emigrated from Germany in the 1850s to avoid CONSCRIPTION.
 They first faced military CONSCRIPTION. during the Civil War.

8) Meaning: ENSLAVED,

1) to control someone by keeping the person in a bad or difficult situation where the
person is not free, or to make a slave (= person legally owned) of someone
2) to force someone to remain in a bad situation :
3) to make a slave of someone:
4 Literary meaning: to control someone's actions, thoughts, emotions, or life
completely

 Most midwives of slave origin were poor: midwifery practice may have been one
way of earning money while ENSLAVED, but it was not lucrative.
 Though the gith fought fiercely, they were no match for the psionic might of the
mind flayers, and soon they were ENSLAVED.
 Moreover, once they are elected to power, they find themselves ENSLAVED to
their role; they must assume a foreign identity and pander to public opinion.
 After getting there, they discover that the continent has been overrun by orcs
which have ENSLAVED mankind.
 Rather, she assumes the position of a missionary who will free others that are
ENSLAVED.
 The staff are ENSLAVED by overburden some bureaucracy and no value has been
added to the quality of higher education by this additional work.
 The subject is bound by his understanding, "grabbed," just as for psychoanalysts
language ENSLAVES imagination.
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  If the political values of society some years ago had been entrenched, and we
could not change them, we should be ENSLAVED by the dead.
 Although freed from landlords and moneylenders, they were ENSLAVED by their
new employers.
 The idea that their creators could be ENSLAVED horrified him.
 The power of ENSLAVING people is purely local, and depends on local laws of
certain places.
 By convincing people that they required a priest's help to overcome their innate
sinfulness, deists argued, religious leaders had ENSLAVED the human population.
 In reality, their razzias led to localized depopulation as entire settlements were
ENSLAVED or dispersed.
 In theory, those so ENSLAVED would be liberated when their original debts were
repaid.
 The spirit shrines regulated which categories of people could legitimately be
ENSLAVED and sold in the trade.

9) GRAVE = very serious:

"It was a grave error."

"We are all in grave danger"
GRAVE can also describe a person who looks serious / solemn / not smiling or happy:
"His face was grave as he opened the letter"
"When I saw the grave look on his face, I knew the news was bad."

10) LAY LOW = stay hidden or isolated for a while (for example, when avoiding the
police):

"He embarrassed himself in front of all of his friends so he decided to lay low for a
while."
"After he robbed the bank, he drove into the desert to lay low for a few months."

11) FILL YOU IN = give you some news / give you some more details:

"I still don't know what happened. Maybe you can fill me in?"
"My date tonight was a disaster! I will fill you in tomorrow."

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12) HEADS UP = an informal way of saying "warning" or "letting me know"

"Thanks for the heads up."

"I didn't know the meeting was cancelled. You should have called to give me a heads
up!"

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