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NO. VOCABULARY DEFINITIONS

CRIMES AND VIOLENCE
1 Take a toll on To have a negative effect on something
2 Track down To determine the location of someone
3 Surveillance The act of carefully watching someone
4 Impressionable Easily influenced or affected by something
5 Facilitate To make a process easier
6 Public disclosure To present publicly
7 Causally associated with To be the cause of something
Paint an incomplete picture of
8 To give an incomplete story of a situation
something
to understand a story, situation, etc. by taking all the facts and
9 Piece together
details about it and putting them together
10 Engage in a behavior To do a behavior
11 In the absence of sth When something is absent
12 Take action To do something in order to deal with the situation
Be on the lookout for
13 To be careful about something
something
14 Present risk To show threat to something
15 Provide a peek into Provide a deeper look into something
A situation when parents do not give enough attention to thier
16 Parental neglect
children
17 Shatter support network To break the network of support
18 Combat the problem To deal with the problem
19 Entangle in social dispute To get involved in a social argument
Making you feel extremely upset, especially because somebody is
20 Distressing
suffering
21 Enhance public safety Increase the safety of the society
That can be won or lost, depending on the success of a particular
22 At stake
action
23 Under scrutiny Under careful examination
24 Burden A duty, responsibility, etc. that causes worry, difficulty or hard work
The act of giving back something that was lost or stolen to its
25 Pay restitution to
owner
26 Grant clemency To give mercy to a criminal (trao sự khoan hồng)

GLOPASS ENGLISH
27 Under the influence of To be affected by something
28 Inflict pain on To cause pain to someone
Take a turn for the better / the
29 To change more positively/negatively
worse
30 Spur To cause
31 Redeem To make something seem less bad
32 Put sb behind bars To imprison somebody
33 Pose a dire threat To create a threat to something
34 Intrinsic value The natural value of something
35 Low-risk offenders Criminals with low risk
POPULATION GROWTH
36 Declining birthrate Decreasing rate of new-born babies
37 Bridge the generation gap To make the difference between generations less significant
38 Youth bulge The boom of young people
39 Staunch Always showing strong support in your opinions and attitude
40 Eat into the budget To gradually use up all the budget
41 Intractable Very difficult to deal with
42 Deploy machines To use machines
43 Tax breaks Tax reductions
(1) To focus
44 Concentrate
(2) To gather around a particular place
45 Be attributed to Be linked with
46 Demographically lopsided The situation when there is more men/women over the other sex
47 In dire strait In trouble, facing threat
48 Sap productivity To reduce productivity
49 Scant evidence Little evidence, lack of evidence
50 Lag behind To be unable to catch up with something

GLOPASS ENGLISH