I. Consult the Topical Vocabulary and learn expressions with the words “withdrawal”, “weapon”, “tension ”.Learn them by heart and use in the sentences of your own.
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 452.
VOCABULARY EXERCISES
II. Substitute the underlined words by their equivalents.
- Based on this information and examinations of victims, doctors came to the conclusion that the gas was a morphine derivative.
- inference
- inception
- resolution
- commencement
- While the siege was underway, the Russian government closed one television station, censored the coverage of another television station and a radio station, and publicly rebuked a newspaper for its coverage.
- implicated
- condemned
- exonerated
- accused
- In Denmark he was held for over a month, but released when the Danish authorities were not convinced that sufficient evidence had been provided.
- fallacy
- premises
- verification
- refutation
- Chechen terrorists demanded to withdraw all of Russian forces from Chechnya immediately and unconditionally.
- relinquish
- retract
- recall
- abide
- A videotaped statement was acquired by the media, in which the terrorists indicated their willingness to die for their ideas.
- acknowledgement
- allegation
- assertion
- affirmation
- After the release people reported that approximately half of the terrorists were women, which is highly unusual.
- relinquishment
- restriction
- subjugation
- surrender
- Some performers who heard the takeover while resting backstage jumped out an open window to escape and call police.
- confront
- face
- flee
- break
- The lower house of the Duma approved broad new restrictions on press coverage of terrorism related incidents.
- endorsed
- validated
- ratified
- rejected
- Vladimir Putin defended the raid in a televised address later that morning, stating that the government had "achieved the near impossible, saving hundreds, hundreds of people."
- fullfilled
- failed
- lost
- accomplished
- Russia responded to increasing domestic and international pressure with a statement on the unknown gas identifying it as an aerosol of a fentanyl derivative, a powerful opiate.
- replied
- disregarded
- ignored
- acknowledged
III. Match the notions with their definitions.
| 1. deployment an act of drawing back, of moving out of one's place 2. abolition an act of discarding as useless 3. stockpiling being caused to increased greatly in numbers 4. withdrawal the amount by which something is diminished 5. scrapping an act of doing away with completely or putting an end to 6. reduction moving into (taking up) battle formation 7. proliferation reservation and accumulation of material |
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