Vocabulary List 1

accord (noun)

• official international relations
• slowly wearing down; wearing away
• a great disaster
• agreement; harmony

corroborate (verb)

• to confirm; to make more certain
• making something by manual labor
• to interfere; to act in a matter involving others
• to carry or move from one place to another

catastrophe (noun)

• official international relations
• a great disaster
• administration by employees who follow fixed rules and complex procedures.
• a person who organizes, runs, and assumes the risk of a business.

entrepreneur (noun)

• the direct opposite.
• a person who organizes, runs, and assumes the risk of a business.
• slowly wearing down; wearing away
• official international relations

renegade (noun)

• a word that’s pronounced the same way as another word but has a different meaning
• administration by employees who follow fixed rules and complex procedures.
• traitor; disloyal person; outlaw; person who rejects conventional behavior
• no government or law

bureaucracy (noun)

• the size, extent, or dimensions of something
• official international relations
• the basic, underlying features of a system
• administration by employees who follow fixed rules and complex procedures.

appease (verb)

• to satisfy or calm
• to carry or move from one place to another
• to interfere; to act in a matter involving others
• making something by manual labor

intervene (verb)

• to interfere; to act in a matter involving others
• making something by manual labor
• to carry or move from one place to another
• to put off until a later time

diplomacy (noun)

• slowly wearing down; wearing away
• the size, extent, or dimensions of something
• no government or law
• official international relations

attrition (noun)

• the direct opposite.
• slowly wearing down; wearing away
• a word that’s pronounced the same way as another word but has a different meaning
• the basic, underlying features of a system