Vocabulary Unit 4: Weeks 1&2

Amendments

• formal changes made according to official procedures

• to reach an agreement by having each side give up some of its demands

• a sense of obligation toward something

• an account given in a particular way

Commitment

• in the end or finally

• a sense of obligation toward something

• to reach an agreement by having each side give up some of its demands

• laws that are made or passed

Compromise

• a special right or benefit held by a certain group of people

• an account given in a particular way

• to learn or find out something by getting information

• to reach an agreement by having each side give up some of its demands

Democracy

• in the end or finally

• laws that are made or passed

• a government that is run by the people who live under it

• a government that is run by a King or Queen

Eventually

• an account given in a particular way

• to reach an agreement by having each side give up some of its demands

• in the end or finally

• to make something clear; tell why

Legislation

• laws that are made or passed

• a government that is run by the people who live under it

• to reach an agreement by having each side give up some of its demands

• an account given in a particular way

Privilege

• an account given in a particular way

• a special right or benefit held by a certain group of people

• a sense of obligation toward something

• to state something again or differently in order to correct or make more clearly

Version

• an account given in a particular way

• to make something clear; tell why

• to learn or find out something by getting information

• formal changes made according to official procedures

Cause

• what makes something happen "why"

• what happens as a result of the cause

• to make something clear; tell why

• an account given in a particular way

Effect

• what makes something happen "why"

• what happens as a result of the cause

• to learn or find out something by getting information

• in the end or finally