14 World Issues

 Lapel=insignă
 To aid=to help
 To loan=to lend
 To clamour=to make a loud complaint or demand
 Awareness=conștientizare
 To free=to make something available for someone to use
 To phone up in their thousands
 To award a prize
 To hand in something=to give something to an authority or responsible person
 To pledge=to make a serious or formal promise to give or do something
 To flood + away – Wrong
 Bank=sloping raised land, especially along the sides of a river
 Devaluation=the action of causing someone or something to be considered less
valuable or important
 Erosion=the fact of soil, stone, etc. being gradually damaged and removed by the
waves, rain, or wind
 To bury=a îngropa
 To collapse=to fall down suddenly because of pressure or having no strength or
support
 Ablaze=burning very strongly
 Crackling=short, dry, sharp sounds made by something (by fire)
 To smoulder=to burn slowly with smoke but without flames
 Draft=draught
 Drought=secetă
 To abduct=to force someone to go somewhere with you, often using threats or
violence
Abducted by aliens
  To shift=to (cause something or someone to) move or change from one position
or direction to another, especially slightly
 Starvation=>individual
 Famine=>fenomen social
 To block out something=to stop light or noise from passing through something
 To cut someone/something off=to cause a person or place to become separate,
or cause someone to be or feel alone
 To sweep=to remove and/or take in a particular direction, especially in a fast and
powerful way
A large wave swept away half the sandcastle.
 Epidemic=the appearance of a particular disease in a large number of people at
the same time
 Outbreak=a time when something suddenly begins, especially a disease or
something else dangerous or unpleasant
 To plague=to cause worry, pain, or difficulty to someone or something over a
period of time
 Sea beds=platformă marină
 Bed=the bottom of something, or something that serves as a base
 To wash something away=If water or rain washes something away, it removes it
or carries it away
 Erosion=the fact of a good quality or situation being gradually lost or destroyed
 Bitterly=amar
 To protest about
 To interfere=a se băga într-o situație
 To resort to doing something=a recurge la
 Exploitation=the use of something in order to get an advantage from it
 Commodity=a valuable thing
 Burden=something difficult or unpleasant that you have to deal with or worry
about
 Foreign debt=datorie externă
 Ceasefire=armistițiu
 Guerrilla=terorist
 Greenhouse effect
 Over-exploitation of
 Pests=dăunători
 Exhaust fumes=smog
 To tremble=a tremura

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  To shake=to make something less certain, firm, or strong
 To urge someone to do something=to beg=to plead with
 Drift=a pluti în derivă
 Stampede=an occasion when many large animals or many people suddenly all
move quickly and in an uncontrolled way, usually in the same direction at the
same time, especially because of fear
Two shoppers were injured in the stampede as shop doors opened on the first day
of the sale.
 Motion=mișcare
 Grim struggle for existence
 Toil=hard work, especially work that makes you feel physically tired
 Enslavement=>sens figurat
 Slavery=>sens propriu
 Servility=slugărnicie
 Strip=the clothing worn by a football team that has the team's colours on it
 Cloth=(a type of) woven material
 Rag=a torn piece of old cloth
 Patch=petic
 To disperse=a se împrăștia
 To assign=to give a particular job or piece of work to someone
 Counterpart=omolog
 To burden=to trouble someone with something difficult or unpleasant
 To nourish=to provide people or living things with food in order to make them
grow and keep them healthy
 Underlying=real but not immediately obvious
 To underestimate (something)
 To underrate (someone)
 Impoverished=very poor
 Impoverished=made weaker or worse in quality
 Time-honoured=traditional
 Shanty=shack
 Organic=natural
 Conservation=the protection of plants and animals, natural areas, and interesting
and important structures and buildings, especially from the damaging effects of
human activity
 Self-sufficiency=the quality or state of being able to provide everything you need,
especially food, without the help of other people or countries
 subsidy=subvenție
 Immunisation=a mean of protecting people against some diseases