1. Sensitization
• Sensitization is a non-associative learning process in which repeated administration of a stimulus results in the progressive amplification of a response. • Sensitization often is characterized by an enhancement of response to a whole class of stimuli in addition to the one that is repeated.
Usage: India needs a stronger system of accountability for public officials and better training and sensitization of the police, she said.
2. Tighten the noose
• To make a situation more difficult for someone
Usage: The new tougher penalties will tighten the noose on traffic offenders.
3. Dispensation
• Exemption from a rule or usual requirement.
Usage: Although she was too young, she was given special dispensation to play before her birthday.
• A political, religious, or social system prevailing at a particular time.
Usage: Scholarship is conveyed to a wider audience than under the old dispensation.
• The act of giving or portioning something out.
Usage: There is a risk of dispensation of expired drugs.
4. Largesse
• Generosity in bestowing money or gifts upon others.
Usage: Presumably public money is not dispensed with such largesse to anyone else.
5. Decolonization
• The action or process of a state withdrawing from a former colony, leaving it independent.
Usage: The break-up of the Soviet Union heralded the last phase of decolonization.
6. Nakba
• The 1948 Palestinian exodus was known as the Nakba, occurred when more than 700,000 Palestinian Arabs — about half of pre-war Palestine’s Arab population — fled or were expelled from their homes, during the 1948 Palestine war.
7. Apartheid Policy
• Apartheid policy that governed relations between South Africa’s white minority and non-white majority and sanctioned racial segregation and political and economic discrimination against non-whites.
8. Aboriginals
• Aboriginal Australians are the various indigenous peoples of the Australian mainland, Tasmania, and often the Tiwi Islands. This group contains many distinct peoples that have developed across Australia for over 50,000 years.
9. Insurmountable
• Too great to be overcome.
Usage: And when they’re not and if there’s a bunch of them, there’s a threshold where it becomes insurmountable and you just can’t navigate it.
10. Scalding
• Intense and painful. Distressing. A burn cause by hot liquid or steam
Usage: The volcano erupted Monday with a towering blast of ash and scalding steam.
