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| 1.to overlap with smth | 1.to avoid doing smth in a clever or dishonest way |
| 2.non – partisan | 2.loyal and showing strong belief in smth or strong support for smth |
| 3.allegiance | 3.special knowledge or skill that you get from experience, training or study |
| 4.to dodge | 4.not supporting any political party; staying impartial, fair, even-handed |
| 5.to waylay | 5.to continue to cause problems for a person or organization for a long time |
| 6.staunch | 6.severe; making difficult demands |
| 7.expertise | 7.someone whose job is to give journalists information that makes a politician or organization seem as good as possible |
| 8. to pay heed to smth | 8. to examine smth very carefully |
| 9. to haunt smb | 9. to make a problem or difficult situation seem less important than it is |
| 10. to shun smb/smth | 10. to make smth less clear or noticeable |
| 11. to enshrine | 11. to cause trouble for smb over a long period of time |
| 12. to scrutinize | 12. to separate into different kinds; to divide smth as a total amount into separate parts |
| 13. to dog smb | 13. to understand or describe smth exactly |
| 14. stringent (rules, laws, acts, limits) | 14. dealing fairly with all the people involved in a situation |
| 15. to blur (the line, difference, distinction) between smth | 15. to try to the like smb or smth else usually because you admire them |
| 16. disrepute (to drag/bring smb into disrepute) | 16. to give careful attention to smb’s advice or warning |
| 17. watertight (argument, plan, contract) | 17. strong loyalty to a person, group, idea or country |
| 18. die-hard | 18. the practice of saying things publicly that are intended to harm someone’s reputation |
| 19. to play down a problem | 19. to officially record smth as the idea or principle in a document so that it cannot be ignored |
| 20. spin doctor | 20. someone who refuses to accept changes or new ideas |
| 21. mudslinging | 21. saying what is true or what you think even is this offends or upsets people |
| 22. even-handed | 22. done in an obvious way that shows you are not embarrassed or ashamed to be doing smth bad or illegal |
| 23. turn-out | 23. a situation in which people have no respect for smb or smth |
| 24. to lump together | 24. to appear again after not being seen for a period of time; to start to have an effect again |
| 25. to keep (stay) abreast to smth | 25. to put people or things into the same group, although they do not really belong together |
| 26. to abhor smth/smb | 26. to deliberately avoid a person, place or activity |
| 27. to pin down | 27. to make sure that you know all the most recent and important information about smth |
| 28. blatant | 28. produced with great care so that there is no possibility of doubt, mistakes or unintended results |
| 29. to resurface | 29. to stop smb who is going somewhere especially to trouble them or to hurt them |
| 30. blunt | 30. the number of voters in election; or the number of people who come to the event |
| 31. to break down | 31. dislike smth or smb very much, especially when you think it is immoral |
| 32. to emulate | 32. to be similar in some ways but not very every way |
Ex.3 Complete the words.
1. He was w_____ by a couple of the prisoners.
2. He is a s_______ supporter of the Democratic party.
3. He was a shy man who s_______ all publicity.
4. The newspaper report deliberately b_______ the distinction between the union’s member and its leadership.
5. Legislation is s______ properly from every point of view.
6. These fundamental freedoms are e_______ in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
7. The government had p______ no h______ to agricultural advisers.
8. Government communication is about informing citizens in a n_____- p_____ way about government policy.
9. The White House s______ d______ are hard at work explaining the President’s about face on taxes.
10. They get smart accountants to help them d_______ taxes.
11. S_______ measures were undertaken to deal with street crime.
12. The only w______ argument is to prohibit any contact between the two organizations.
13. He’ll only get the votes of d______ Conservatives.
14. Such negative campaigns can degenerate into m________
15. Let it be b________- younger people will not buy this car.
16. Their marketing manager switched a_______ from the company to their main competitor.
17. The president b________ the office i_______ d_______ and destroyed the people trust.
18. Government PR aims to provide citizens with the information they need in an e_______- h_______ way.
19. The company is known to develop its own e_______ in the view of computer programming.
20. The committee may find their past errors returning to h________ them.
21. Economics and politics are best studied together as the two subjects o_______
22. We were d______ by bad luck throughout the journey.
23. At first the government p______ d______ the threat to public health.
24. The cost of these two trips can be l______ t________ for tax purposes.
25. His ambition was to e_______ his mother and become a member of Parliament as she had been once.
26. It was a b______ attempt to influence the judge.
27. The amount doesn’t seem quite, so bad when you b_______ it d______ into monthly payments.
28. I a_______ cruelty to animals.
29. Officials are trying to p________ d______ the cause of widespread power cuts.
30. Read the papers if you want to k_______ a_______ o______ the time of the latest developments in the news.
31. He r_______ on Thursday and was detained by police at Frankfurt airport.
32. We are expecting quite a low t_______ for the local elections.
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