時事英語キーワード [No.101-No.150]

[No.101] rally (n)
<a large public meeting, especially one held to support a particular idea or political party.>

[No.102] headline
<the title of a newspaper article, which is printed in large letters above the article.>

[No.103] life expectancy
<the length of time that a person or an animal is expected to live; the length of time that something is expected to continue to exist, work, be useful, etc.>

[No.104] nuclear
<relating to or involving the nucleus of an atom; using or producing nuclear energy; relating to or involving the use of weapons that use nuclear energy.>

[No.105] communism
<a political system in which the government controls the production of all food and goods, and there is no privately owned property.>

[No.106] fatality
<a death that is caused in an accident or a war, or by violence or disease; the fact that a particular disease will result in death.>

[No.107] Lower House
<[the -]a group of elected representatives who make laws in a country; one of the two parts that some parliaments are divided into, usually the one with more political power.>

[No.108] Upper House
<[the -]a group of representatives in a country’s parliament, which is smaller and less powerful than the country’s Lower House.>

[No.109] drastic
<extreme in a way that has a sudden effect on something.>

[No.110] emit
<to send out gas, heat, light, sound, etc.>

[No.111] referendum
<an occasion when all the people of a country can vote to make a decision about a particular subject.>

[No.112] scholarship
<an amount of money that is given to someone by an educational organization to help pay for his/her education.>

[No.113] budget
<the money that is available to a person or an organization and/or a plan of how it will be spent over a period of time>