Friday 8 August 2008

Vocabulary

This is some vocabulary we learnd in class from The Times article "Delicate China":

Separatists: a goup of person who want to be separate from the governement.
Poured in: supplyed huge money/invested
Powerhouse: superpower
Revamped: improved
Staged: held
Boast: exageration
Vexed: finding problems and difficulties
Leaden skies: air pollution
Defuse: make something powerless
Ill-fated: bad things happened
Sparse: there is no much vegetation, trees....
Foiled: discover something before it happened and stop it.
Glitter: shining

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