Issues Vocabulary

Globalization = the increase of trade around the world, especially by large companies producing and trading goods in many different countries.

Sentence – While it is significant as a response to globalization, increased co-operation, is not necessarily indicative of integration.

Modernization = the act of making something more modern

Sentence – Modernization and industrialization have contributed to later marriages, for example, as have improvements in educational and employment opportunities for women.

Tackle = to try to deal with something or someone

Sentence – The policeman brought the thief to the ground with a flying tackle.

Worsen = more unpleasant, difficult, or severe than before or than something else that is also bad

Sentence – This may, however, worsen hypertension by increasing the peripheral vascular resistance.

Overcome = to defeat or succeed in controlling or dealing with something

Sentence – I am not a slave, I am not a captive, and by energy I can overcome the greater obstacles.

Pressing = urgent or needing to be dealt with immediately

Sentence – There are a few things you should check before pressing the shutter release.

Development = the process in which someone or something grows or changes and becomes more advanced

Sentence – I think the development is a stalking horse for exploitation of the surrounding countryside.

Diversity = the fact of many different types of things or people being included in something; a range of different things or people.

Sentence – There is a wide diversity of opinion on the question of unilateral disarmament.

Tolerate = to accept behaviour and beliefs that are different from your own, although you might not agree with or approve of them

Sentence – The new teacher has a reputation for firmness and is unlikely to tolerate misbehaviour.

Ongoing = continuing to exist or develop, or happening at the present moment.

Sentence – Finally, the drawing is ongoing and never finished, which one could say reflects one of my philosophies of life.

Scenario = a description of possible actions or events in the future.

Sentence – In the worst-case scenario more than ten thousand people might be affected.

Critical = saying that someone or something is bad or wrong.

Sentence – The first chapter presents a critical review of the existing nursery education system.

Escalate = to become or make something become greater or more serious.

Sentence – Aggression and violence can escalate when jealousy and envy grow in a competitive atmosphere.

Dispute = an argument or disagreement, especially an official one between, for example, workers and employers or two countries with a common border.

Sentence – Management have demonstrated almost unbelievable incompetence in their handling of the dispute.

Contemplate = to spend time considering a possible future action, or to consider one particular thing for a long time in a serious and quiet way.

Sentence – The pursuer himself will also require to contemplate the not inconsiderable pressure of having to give evidence and face cross-examination.