Vocabulary 16

Write a note of protest of one party to another bearing in mind the situation in the Korean Peninsula.

Vocabulary 15

Vocabulary 14

Vocabulary 14

Compose a charter of an international organization which can aim to protect society from the drug-related crime.

258) step down as President
259) hand over\ transfer power to smb
260) temporarily
261) spark boisterous/little reaction
262) a revolutionary icon
263) rumpled
264) military fatigues
265) dodge smth thrown at smb
266) an invasion bid
267) an assassination plot
268) trade embargo
269) take the world to the brink of nuclear war
270) let some country put ballistic missiles
271) a 13-day stand-off
272) constitute an explicit threat to smth
273) leave office in a coffin
274) a military coup
275) on his own terms
276) secure a smooth transition of power to smb
277) every single effort
278) pragmatic policy of civil relations
279) motorists are honking their horns

1. What is the situation in Cuba like today?

2. Compose three possible scenarios of Cuba’s development in the next decade?

280) blanket ban on flights
281) volcanic cloud
282) volcanic ash
283) catastrophic engine failure
284) bank-up of passengers
285) frustrated
286) stranded passengers/commuters
287) uneasy scene
288) yell and jeer at police
289) immigration delays
290) civil unrest
291) publicans
292) air lockdown
293) reassess the blanket ban
294) set up a hub
295) reasonable lift capacity
296) lift people
297) effect pharmaceutical supplies
298) bone-marrow donation deliveries

1. What natural disasters are most often reported in news programs?

2. Analyse the measures of airports and airlines in April,2010 after Iceland’s volcano eruption?

What could have been done differently?

299) the Korean Peninsula
300) vow to push ahead with
301) a live-fire military exercise
302) grave threats of retaliation
303) shell some place
304) convene a meeting
305) Yeonpyeong Island
306) bombardment
307) artillery strikes
308) shelling exercise
309) barrage
310) teeter on the brink of war
311) military drill
312) fire-and-brimstone warnings
313) sick and tired
314) bow before one’s threats
315) scream for revenge
316) shelling attack
317) regime's brutality
318) starve of information
319) stop shells from falling on smth

1. Why situation in the Korean Peninsula is especially dangerous?

320) lawyers for smb
321) the death penalty
322) build a case against smb
323) have smb extradited
324) face (some crime)charges
325) sexual assault
326) grant permission
327) hand legal argument to the media
328) a house arrest
329) a condition of one’s bail
330) raise the ire
331) classified US government cables
332) the army intelligence analyst in custody
333) unabated
334) Cablegate
335) whistleblower
336) take legal revenge against
337) an ex lover
338) a pretext for a criminal prosecution
339) land smb in an electric chair
340) foreign jurisdictions
341) face torture
342) in the appalling state of affairs
343) give a firm commitment
344) render or permit to be rendered
345) the realms of proper justice

1. Why has Julian Assange’s case acquired the worldwide publicity?

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