volcano

Headlines:”Tourist trade erupts at Philippine volcanoes”
[Normally we use "erupt" to describe the explosion of the volcanoes]

Cambridge:a mountain with a large circular hole at the top through which lava (= hot liquid rock), gases, steam and dust are or have been forced out:

Sentence from me: It is dangerous for mountain climbers to get closer to the active volcanoes.

Void

“Void at the heart of computer games” 

Void (n.)
Cambridge: a large hole or empty space

e.g. from cambridge: Before Einstein, space was regarded as a formless void
e.g. As my parents haven’t planted anything in our garden, the garden become a void.

Preach & Underlying

 ”…helping to ease underlying tensions in the pan-democractic camp…”From”Democrats practise what they preach”
Preach (v.)
Cambridge:to try to persuade other people to believe in a particular belief or follow a particular way of life
e.g. The Greenpace preachs the recycling of mooncake boxes during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Underlying (adj.)
Cambridge: real but not immediately obvious
e.g.There are many underlying reasons to keep the trend of child abuse growing.

Interesting term:”bread-and-butter”
From SCMP: “Bread-and-butter issues will form only the periphery of the battleground.”
Cambridge: the basic things that directly relate to most people
e.g. The explosure of higher infectious dieases is a bread-and-butter issue that concerns the people around the world.

Vocabularies

 Healines:”Doctors warn of looming ketamine health crisis”

loom(v.)

Cambridge: the event seems likely to happen soon and causes worry

Cambridge example:
e.g.Here, too, the threat of unemployment has been looming on the horizon.
e.g.The threat of closure looms over the workforce.

My example: The consultation of Green Paper looms to have new determination.

Vocabularies

Headlines:”Grieving fathers recall attacks that tore their families asunder”

Grieving(adj.)

Guess: feeling poor/upset

Cambridge: feeling very sad because someone has died

e.g. It is grieving that the innocent lives were taken away in Tsunami.

Asunder (adv.)

Guess: a member of a party/unit

Cambridge: into forcefully separated pieces; apart

Cambridge example:Their lives were torn asunder by the tragedy

e.g. Our friendship will not tear asunder forever.

Q:Is it necessary to add the word “tear” before the asunder?Do we have any word choice to replace “tear”?