| Difficult Word/ Phrase | Contextual Sense |
| Zealous | feeling or showing strong and energetic support for a person, cause, etc. |
| Paternalism | the system in which a government or an employer protects the people who are governed or employed by providing them with what they need, but does not give them any responsibility or freedom of choice |
| Temptation | the desire to do something, especially something wrong or unwise |
| Strike down | abolish a law or regulation |
| Circumscribe | restrict (something) within limits |
| Audacious | showing a willingness to take surprisingly bold risks |
| turn somethingth on its head | to cause something to be the opposite of what it was before |
| Wager | risk (a sum of money or valued item) against someone else’s on the basis of the outcome of an unpredictable event |
| Claustrophobic | (of a person) having an extreme or irrational fear of confined places |
| Stranglehold | complete or overwhelming control |
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