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Saturday, 29 October 2011

UFS101 - 2nd Vocabulary Entry( Find the meaning of each of the words listed below.)

1 .  WORDS       :     POVERTY

      MEANING   :     DEFICIENCY IN NECESSARY PROPERTIES OR DESIRABLE, OR IN SPECIFIC      QUALITY

     EXAMPLE     :    MANY OF THE GOVERNMENT'S EFFORTS TO ERADICATE POVERTY IN THIS COUNTRY


2 .  WORDS        :  DESTITUTION
   
       MEANING   :  THE STATE OF BEING DESTITUTION, ABJECT POVERTY .

       EXAMPLE   :   BUT RACISM IN AND OF ITSELF DOES NOT AUTOMATICALLY CAUSES DESTITUTION


3 .  WORDS        :   INABILITY

       MEANING   :   THE QUALITY OR STATE OF BEING UNABLE, LACK OF ABILITY, CAPACITY,  MEANS, OF POWER .


      EXAMPLE    :   INABILITY OF THE STATE TO DELIVER THE WELFARE STANDARDS THAT THE MASSES STILL DEMAND .


4 .  WORDS       :  INCAPABLE

      MEANING  :   NOT LEGALLY QUALIFIED OR ELIGIBLE

      EXAMPLE  :    I SEEM TOTALLY INCAPABLE OF MAKING MY BRAIN FUNCTION AT A RAPID PACE .


5 . WORD         :     STARVATION

     MEANING   :    THE STATE OF BEING STARVED

     EXAMPLE   :    THEY ALSO OFTEN LACK PROPER NUTRITION, AND MANY EVEN FACE STARVATION .


6 .  WORDS        :     DEPRIVATION

       MEANING   :     A DEPRIVING OR BEING DEPRIVED

       EXAMPLE   :     THE AIM IS TO TACKLE DEPRIVATION IN THE MOST DEPRIVED AREAS .


7  .  WORDS         :    DEARTH

        MEANING    :    DEARTH MEANS A LACK OR SMALL SUPPLY OF SOMETHING .

        EXAMPLE    :     DEARTH OF CREATIVE TALENT IN THE WAKE OF THE CAMBODIAN GENOCIDE .


8 . WORDS       :   THWART

     MEANING   :   TO THWART IS TO HINDER OR STOP SOMETHING FROM HAPPENING .

     EXAMPLE    :   THWART BY THE FACT THAT THERE HAVE BEEN NO FOOT AND MOUTH EPISODES THERE.


9 . WORDS        :   FAMINE

      MEANING   :   AN ACUTE AND GENERAL SHORTAGE OF FOOD, OR A PERIOD OF THIS.

     EXAMPLE    :    AROUND SEVEN MILLION PEOPLE WERE AFFECTED BY THE FAMINE 1984.

10 . WORDS       :    DROUGHT

        MEANING  :    DROUGHT IS A LONG PERIOD OF TIME WHEN THERE IS NO RAIN

        EXAMPLE  :     DROUGHT RESISTANT PLANTS CAN BE GROWN BY BUDDING YOUNG GARDENERS.

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