GLOSSARY IN PREPARATION FOR MID-TERM

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 competitive economy
 World Economic Forum (WEF)
 to be wasted
 one third / two thirds
 to operate bullet train service
 Beijing / Shanghai
 deadly crash
 The World Health Organization (WHO)
 non-communicable diseases
 preventable causes
 cardiovascular and chronic respiratory disease
 diabetes
 rice-producing part
 Mekong Delta
 To feed [people]
 Tibet
 dam (n)
 extreme (adj)
 saltier
 United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization (UNFAO)
 World Breastfeeding Week
 breastfeeding (n)  breastfeed (v) - breastfed
 workplace policies
 newborns
 immune protection
 to lower one’s risk by an average of … percent
 stroke (n)
 risk of [a disease]
 to nurse one’s babies
 agricultural issues
 Cambodia
 genocide sites
 to triple
 memorial (n)
 Pol Pot and Khmer Rouge
 To disturb
 In an effort to do sthg
 To ban food vendors
 Governor (n)
 The Nation newspaper
 the move
 walkability
 to launch [a product]  launch (n)
 much-awaited
 to be forced to do sth
 to recall [a product]
 troubled [product]
 malaria
 mosquitoes
 insecticide products
 to guard against sthg
 chemically-treated bed nets
 to warn sthg
 to worsen
 earthquake = quake
 strike-struck-struck
 Mexico City
 [number] magnitude quake
 to be confirmed dead
 rescue workers
 survivors
 Mexican Interior Minister - Miguel Osorio Chong
 armed forces
 in hopes of sthg
 to die from all causes
 heart rates
 to hike
 to do a strenuous chore
 raking leaves
 shoveling snow
 digging a garden
 Hurricane Irma
 To weaken
 Widespread (adj)
 Caribbean islands
 Winds eased to [a speed]
 productive (adj)
 Swiss economy
 Living things
 To have trouble doing sthg
 The Water Project: name of an organization
 Working-age people
 world finance
 the bond rating agency - Moody
 aging population
 household savings
 anti-smoking measures
 authors
 to take steps to do sthg
 tobacco
 to plan call for sthg
 heath warnings
 cigarette containers
 taxes on tobacco
 international treaty
 tobacco control
 to put sthg in place
 to cut sthg by [number] percent
 Pauline Rose
 To direct a report
 Saharan desert
 To guarantee sthg
 Miss Rose
 Contract teachers
 Educators
 Special agreement
 To be dismissed
 To underperform