vocabulary

Landmark

• an event or discovery marking an important stage or turning point in something.

• an object or feature of a landscape or town that is easily seen and recognized.

Posing

• being or presenting a problem or hazard.

• assume a particular position in order to be photographed, painted, or drawn.

Embrace

• hold (someone) closely in one's arms, especially as a sign of affection.

• accept a belief, theory, or change willingly and enthusiastically..

Sparked

• emit sparks of fire or electricity.

• ignite.

• provide the stimulus for an event or process.

Evade

• escape paying tax or duty, especially by illegitimate presentation of one's finances.

• escape or avoid someone or something, especially by trickery.

Ubiquity

• omnipresence.

• the fact of appearing everywhere or of being very common.

Academia

• the environment or community concerned with the pursuit of research, education, and scholarship.

• a place of study or training in a special field.

• a society or institution of distinguished scholars and artists or scientists that aims to promote and maintain standards in its particular field.

albeit

• though

• although

• so

• accordingly

a group of persons, as employees, charged with carrying out the work of an establishment or executing some undertaking.

Quandary

• a state of perplexity or uncertainty over what to do in a difficult situation.

• having made a firm decision and being resolved not to change it.

• firmly determined to do something.

• an argument forcing an opponent to choose either of two unfavourable alternatives.