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  • contaminated Containing infection or infectious organisms or germs
  • sewage treatment plant a facility that cleans the waste materials found in water that comes from sewers or drains
  • squeamish (adj.) inclined to nausea; easily shocked or upset; excessively fastidious or refined
  • knock somebody's socks off you find it extremely exciting or good
  • until the cows come home for a very long time
  • footage raw, unedited material as it had been originally recorded
  • devastating extremely destructive
  • impassioned filled with passionate emotion
  • contemporary current, modern; from the same time
  • cropland land used to raise plants for human use
  • compound a thing that is composed of two or more separate elements; a mixture.
  • sewage The water and human wastes that are washed down sinks, toilets, and showers
  • water scarcity not having access to enough clean water supplies
  • take measures do something to solve a problem
  • depleted emptied; drained; used up
  • scorching extremely hot
  • desalinated remove salt from seawater
  • to raise awareness to help people know that something exists and is important
  • barren not productive, bare
  • fertile capable of reproducing
  • allegory a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.
  • to keep a stiff upper lip to be courageous in the face of trouble
  • bend over backwards to try very hard to do something good or helpful
  • to open a whole can of worms to create a complicated situation in which doing something to correct a problem leads to many more problems
  • to get the short end of the stick to suffer the bad effects of a situation
  • jump ship To leave one's job suddenly, usually to go work somewhere else.
  • the underground railway an network pf people helping fugitive slaves in the US
  • the Pacific garbage patch a gyre of marine debris particles in the central North Pacific Ocean
  • debris the remains of something that has been destroyed
  • a small drop in the bucket insignifigant
  • a faucet a tap
  • potentially possibly
  • fissure Narrow, slitlike opening
  • gyre a circular motion of water in each of the major ocean basins
  • decommissioned to officially stop using (a ship, weapon, dam, etc.) : to remove (something) from service
  • incinerate to burn to ashes
  • furthermore in addition
  • nevertheless in spite of that; however( icke desto mindre)
  • consequently as a result
  • aquisition the process of learning or getting something
  • intrinsic (adj.) belonging to someone or something by its very nature, essential, inherent; originating in a bodily organ or part( en inneboende del av)
  • abundant more than enough; plentiful
  • considerably much or a lot
  • hegemony leadership or dominance, especially by one country or social group over others.
  • proponent One who argues in favor of; supporter
  • heterogeneity state of being dissimilar, composition from unlike elements
  • homogeneity the quality of being similar or comparable in kind or nature
  • unilateral one-sided
  • hybrid something that is a mixture of two very different things
  • homogenity of a similar kind
  • transmit to send something across places; to pass along
  • cultural imperialism the fact of the culture of a large and powerful country, organization, etc. having a great influence on another less powerful country, etc:
  • chronic fatigue illness where you feel tired all the time
  • prone to likely to
  • susceptible likely or liable to be influenced or harmed by a particular thing
  • benefit from to get help or an advantage from something, profit from, gain from
  • keep at bay to prevent someone from moving closer
  • impersonate pretend to be some other person; assume the character of
  • advocate to speak in favor of
  • deduce to draw a conclusion from given facts
  • infer to find out by reasoning; to arrive at a conclusion on the basis of thought; to hint, suggest, imply
  • percieve to understand, know, become aware of
  • notwithstanding in spite of, despite
  • coherent logically connected
  • comprehensive covering or including everything

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