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Assignments
1. Learn the glossary.
Effort – an attempt to do something, especially when it is
difficult to do; a par
ticular activity that a group of people organize in order to
achieve something; the result of an attempt to do something.
Gulf – a large difference between two peoples or groups in the
way they think, live or feel.
Mistrust – to have no confidence in somebody or something
because you think they may be harmful; to not trust somebody
or something.
Obsolete – no longer used because something new has been
invented.
Reform – to improve a system, an organization, a law, etc. by
making changes to it.
Settlement – a place, where people have come to live and
make their homes, especially where few or property lived
before; the process of people making their homes in a place.
Transfer – o move one place to another; to move something or
somebody from one place to another.
Undersecretary – the head of a government department,
chosen by the President; an assistant of a government minister;
an Ambassador.
Viable – that can be done; that will be successful.

2. Scan the text and give the gist of the article.

3. Reproduce the situation in which the following is used.
 a road map;
 to settle a conflict;
 to outline steps;
 lacking the political resolve;
 to lack the will to make concessions;

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