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5Banish - send (someone) away from a country or place as an official punishment.

6Boost - to increase or improve something and make it more successful; to help someone reach a higher place by lifting or pushing them.

7Brinkmanship - the art or practice of pursuing a dangerous policy to the limits of safety before stopping, typically in politics.

8Brutal - savagely violent; punishingly hard or uncomfortable; without any attempt to disguise unpleasantness.

9Burden - a duty or misfortune that causes hardship, anxiety, or grief; a

nuisance.

10Corrode - destroy or weaken (something) gradually.

11Devastate – destroy or ruin (something); cause (someone) severe and overwhelming shock or grief.

12Enfeeble - make weak.

13Fester – (of a negative feeling or a problem) become worse or more intense, esp. through long-term neglect or indifference; (of a person) undergo physical and mental deterioration in isolated inactivity.

14Gloss – shine or luster on a smooth surface; a superficially attractive appearance or impression.

15Grasp - seize and hold firmly; act decisively to the advantage of (something).

16Heir - a person legally entitled to the property or rank of another on that person's death; a person inheriting and continuing the legacy of a predecessor.

17Inhibit - hinder, restrain, or prevent (an action or process); prevent or prohibit someone from doing something.

18Intact - [often as complement] not damaged or impaired in any way; complete.

19Limbo - an uncertain period of awaiting a decision or resolution; an intermediate state or condition.

20Plagued – affected with a contagious bacterial disease characterized by fever and delirium, typically with the formation of buboes (see bubonic plague) and sometimes

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infection of the lungs (pneumonic plague); a contagious disease that spreads rapidly and kills many people.

21 Plunge - jump or dive quickly and energetically; fall suddenly and uncontrollably; embark impetuously on a speech or course of action; suffer a rapid decrease in value.

22Reckless - (of a person or their actions) without thinking or caring about the consequences of an action.

23Repercussion - an unintended consequence occurring sometime after an event or action, esp. an unwelcome one.

24Surrender - cease resistance to an enemy or opponent and submit to their

authority.

25Topple - overbalance or become unsteady and fall slowly.

26Wayward - difficult to control or predict because of unusual or perverse

behavior.

27Yield - produce or provide (a natural, agricultural, or industrial product); (of an action or process) produce or deliver (a result or gain).

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1Boost - to increase or improve something and make it more successful; to help someone reach a higher place by lifting or pushing them.

2Chug - emit a series of regular muffled explosive sounds, as of an engine running slowly.

3Conventional - based on or in accordance with what is generally done or

believed.

4Crude - in a natural or raw state; not yet processed or refined.

5Desalinate – remove salt from (seawater).

6Disrupt – interrupt (an event, activity, or process) by causing a disturbance or problem; drastically alter or destroy the structure of (something).

7Emerge – move out of or away from something and come into view.

8Hike – a long walk, esp. in the country or wilderness; walk for a long distance, esp. across country or in the woods.

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9Increment – an increase or addition, esp. one of a series on a fixed scale; a regular increase in salary on such a scale.

10Meager/ meagre - (of something provided or available) lacking in quantity or

quality.

11Output – the amount of something produced by a person, machine, or industry.

12Pledge – a thing that is given as security for the fulfillment of a contract or the payment of a debt and is liable to forfeiture in the event of failure.

13Reiterate – say something again or a number of times, typically for emphasis or

clarity.

14Scapegoat - (in the Bible) a goat sent into the wilderness after the Jewish chief priest had symbolically laid the sins of the people upon it (Lev. 16).

15Shortfall - a deficit of something required or expected.

16Soar - increase rapidly above the usual level.

17Spew out - expel large quantities of (something) rapidly and forcibly; be poured or forced out in large quantities; informal vomit.

18Strain - a force tending to pull or stretch something to an extreme or damaging

degree.

19Treble - consisting of three parts; threefold.

20Wisdom - the quality of having experience, knowledge, and good judgment; the quality of being wise; the soundness of an action or decision with regard to the application of such experience, knowledge, and good judgment.

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1 The Economist – world news, politics, economics, business and finance : [сайт]. –

Режим доступа: http://www.economist.com

2 The Times – UK news, world news and opinion : [сайт]. – Режим доступа: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/

3 World business, finance and political news from the Financial Times : [сайт]. –

Режим доступа: http://www.ft.com/home/

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4 Latest news, sport and comment from the Guardian : [сайт]. – Режим доступа: http://www.guardian.co.uk/

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