a pivotal role
pay heed to something
English is deteriorating
local dialect
understand the speech in its entirety
syntax
abbreviations
reconcile something with something
string together sentences
newfangled
tilde
Language shifts and proliferates due to chance and external factors
putting clarity at stake
consult the style guide
a grammar conundrum
prescriptivism
stodgy
pepper our prose with
Text messaging , with its use of phonetic spelling and little or no punctuation, seems to pose a threat to traditional conventions in writing.
a travesty of human decency
rough sleeping
sinister
under the pretence of
first-hand accounts of their lives
pavement
mortified
Hunger, loneliness, physical illness, being beaten up, sometimes raped or set alight are the diet of homeless.
menace (pronunciation)
- a public menace
- a slight air of menace
- demand money with menaces
plight
villainous
Homeless people cannot be trusted with money is a wicked get-out.
Embarrassment ( spelling)
herald something
reckon
own up
No one will own up to being one of those
extinct
tread
adversely affected
emasculate (pronunciation)
frowned upon activity
forecast
curtail someone from
benefits accrued from tourism
expeditions
apposite
an apposite remark/phrase/quotation
ethos
to be in tune with each other
disseminate
tainted
thatched huts
stilt house
shun
obliterate
at the vanguard of
short haul
holidaymakers
rebuke