المفردات

· speed up the progress of; facilitate

This should expedite the process

· lose validity

My passports expired last month

· social or financial or professional status or reputation

of equal standing

· of or relating to the doctrine that rejects religion and religious considerations

worldly goods and advancement

· claim as due or just

The bank demanded payment of the loan

· a sentence of inquiry that asks for a reply

he asked a direct question

· make (one thing) compatible with (another)

The scientists had to accommodate the new results with the existing theories

· get by special effort

He procured extra cigarettes even though they were rationed

· large in capacity

she carried a capacious bag

· expressing yourself easily or characterized by clear expressive language

articulate speech

· (of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces

an autonomous judiciary

· be incompatible; be or come into conflict

These colors clash

· of words so related that one reverses the relation denoted by the other

‘parental’ and ‘filial’ are converse terms

· speak out against

He denounced the Nazis

· flow back or recede

the tides ebbed at noon

· characterized by or arising from psychoneurotic hysteria

· without fault or error

faultless logic

· the action of incorporating a racial or religious group into a community

a consolidation of two corporations

· marked by materialism

a bourgeois mentality

· any admirable quality or attribute

work of great merit

· marked by precise accordance with details

meticulous research

· a predisposition in favor of something

a predilection for expensive cars

· (logic) a statement that affirms or denies something and is either true or false

it was a suggestion we couldn't refuse

· rise and move, as in waves or billows

The army surged forward