Aggrandizement

Agonizing

All of a sudden

Ambassador

Annual budget

Answerable to the community

Appointment

Appropriation

Arable land

Armaments

Astounding

Asylum

At grass-roots level

Attempted military coup

Authorities

Bicameral

Bill

Binding

Birth rate

Blazing red portraits

Border violation

Budgetary agency

Cabinet

Campaign

Candidate

Casualty

Cease-fire

Centralised

Chairperson

Chancellor of the Exchequer

Child Poverty Action Group

Civil servants

Clash

Close links

Close-knit

Coercion

Consent

Constituent

Conventional

Co-operation

Council

Courteous

Creative potential

Crime rate

Cynicism

Decrepit

Delegate

Demand for smth.

Democratic / reactionary / peace-keeping forces

Deputation

Determination

Differences

Disarmament

Downfall

Downpour

Drugs

Due to

Elaborate

Equality

Establishment of democratic relations

Executive

Famine

Flock

Food supplies

Foreign Minister

Formidable

Fragmented

Friends of the Earth

Frontier post

Frozen student grants

Gang

Garrulous

Gaudy

General election

Grievance

Grossly

Harassment

Hawkish

Hit-or-miss method

Illegal

Impeachment

In protest against smth.

In support of smth.

Income tax

Indignation

Instability

Institute of Directors

Interference in the affairs

Judicial

Lawmaking

Leadership

Left-wing

Legislation

Legislature

Licensed

Loan scheme

Lobbies

Lobbyists

Longings for

Majority

Manifesto

Mayor

Member states

Missile

Mutual benefit

Naive

Nominations

Notorious

Official

One-child rule

Opinion poll

Oppressed

Oppressive

Outbreak

Outburst

Outcast

Outcome

Outlaw

Outlay

Outlet

Outlook

Output

Outrage

Outset

Outskirts

Overdraft facility

Overheads

Over-populated

Oversight

Overtime

Paid-up members

Party-line