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The document defines various terms including 'staple' as essential products, 'creepy' as unsettling, and 'stunning' as impressively shocking. It also covers concepts like 'start-up' businesses, 'advocate' for public support, and 'perception' as widely held beliefs. Additionally, it discusses issues related to 'reliance', 'degradation', and the challenges posed by 'hurdles' in progress.

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Wordlist 37

The document defines various terms including 'staple' as essential products, 'creepy' as unsettling, and 'stunning' as impressively shocking. It also covers concepts like 'start-up' businesses, 'advocate' for public support, and 'perception' as widely held beliefs. Additionally, it discusses issues related to 'reliance', 'degradation', and the challenges posed by 'hurdles' in progress.

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staple – a main product or part of something:

- Shortages mean that even staples (= basic foods) like bread are difficult to find.
creepy (informal) – strange or unnatural and making you feel frightened:
- a creepy film
stunning – shocking or very impressive:
- All the ideas have a stunning simplicity.
start-up – a small business that has just been started:
- Start-ups are very vulnerable in the business world.
source – to get something from a particular place:
- Where possible the produce used in our restaurant is sourced locally.
nascent (formal) – only recently formed or started, but likely to grow larger quickly:
- a nascent political party
advocate – C2 someone who publicly supports something:
- He's a strong advocate of state ownership of the railways.
credit – B2 praise, approval, or honour:

- She got no credit for solving the problem.


be grounded in sth (formal) – to be based firmly on something:
- Fiction should be grounded in reality.
hurdle – a problem that you have to deal with before you can make progress:
- Getting a work permit was the first hurdle to overcome.
regulatory (formal) – controlling:
- a regulatory body/organization
not do sb any favours – to do something that is likely to have a bad effect on you or on another
person:
- You're not well, and you're not doing yourself any favours by taking on extra work.
perception – C2 a belief or opinion, often held by many people and based on how things seem:
- We have to change the public's perception that money is being wasted.
- These photographs will affect people's perceptions of war.
slaughter – the killing of animals for meat:
- The geese are being fattened for slaughter.
degradation – the process in which the beauty or quality of something is destroyed or spoiled:
- environmental degradation
reliance – C2 the state of depending on or trusting in something or someone:
- The region's reliance on tourism is unwise.
- You place too much reliance on her ideas and expertise.
far-flung (literary) – describes places that are a great distance away, or something that is spread
over a very large area:
- The news spread to all corners of our far-flung empire.

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