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      nine and three quarters platform

★ caution

★ safety pin

★ statesman v.s.  politician

         A statesman is usually a politician, diplomat or other notable public figure who has had a long and respected career at the national or international level.

      A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking office in government. In democratic countries, politicians seek positions within a government through elections or appointment. In non-democratic countries, they employ other means of reaching power through appointment, bribery, revolutions and intrigues. Some politicians are experienced in the art or science of government. Politicians propose, support and create laws or policies that govern the land and, by extension, its people. Broadly speaking, a "politician" can be anyone who seeks to achieve political power in any bureaucratic institution.

★ reach   +   the goal  /  the agreement / the age of majority

 

 

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 removal

 refusal

approval

 rehearsal : an occasion when you practise for the performance of a play, concert, opera etc

★compliment : 

(n.) something nice that you say to praise someone

e.g. : Thanks for the compliment or compliments.

(v.) to say something nice to or about someone

compliment someone on something

e.g. :  Everybody complimented her on the way she handled the emergency.

★ Ethnic group

     An ethnic group or ethnicity is a category of people who identify with each other based on common ancestral, social, cultural or national experience. Unlike most other social groups, ethnicity is primarily an inherited status. Membership of an ethnic group tends to be defined by a shared cultural heritage, ancestry, origin myth, history, homeland, language and/or dialect, symbolic systems such as religion, mythology and ritual, cuisine, dressing style, art, and physical appearance.

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Checkmate : in chess, an attack that your opponent’s king cannot escape from, so that you win the game

Black is checkmated—the game is over.

★ repair : to fix something that is broken or damaged

     impair : to make something less good or effective, especially by causing damage that affects

                     the way something works

★ Red herring

       A red herring is something that misleads or distracts from a relevant or important issue. It may be either a logical fallacy or a literary device that leads readers or audiences towards a false conclusion. A red herring might be intentionally used, such as in mystery fiction or as part of rhetorical strategies (e.g. in politics), or it could be inadvertently used during argumentation.

     The origin of the expression is not known. Conventional wisdom has long supposed it to be the use of a kipper (a strong-smelling smoked fish) to train hounds to follow a scent, or to divert them from the correct route when hunting; however, modern linguistic research suggests that the term was probably invented in 1807 by English polemicist William Cobbett, referring to one occasion on which he had supposedly used a kipper to divert hounds from chasing a hare, and was never an actual practice of hunters. The phrase was later borrowed to provide a formal name for the logical fallacy and literary device.