No News Is Good News: key words.

Key words to relate to, or summarise my chosen article:

words #1-9 taken from 'The Concise English Dictionary', first published 1962.

words #10-25 taken from 'Collins English Dictionary' first published 2010.

• EQUALITY n. the state of being equal.
• IMPOVERISHED/IMPOVERSIH vt. to make poor; to exhaust the strength, fertility, or resources of.
• HUMANE a. having the feelings proper to man; tender, compassionate, kind, gentle.
• ORIGIN n. derivation, ancestry (geneology)
• SINCERE a. genuine, honest, frank.
• DISPLACE/DISPLACEMENT v.t/n -to remove from the usual or proper place; to remove from a position or dignity; to dismiss, to take the place of. -the act of displacing, the state of being displaced.
• WEALTH n. riches, large possessions of money, goods, affluence; abundance, prosperity.
• DEVESTATING a. overwhelming (negative)
• GREED n. greediness, insatiable desire or covertousness
• EMPATHY n. ability to understand someone else's feelings as if they were one's own.
• DISASTER n. occurence that causes great distress or destruction.
• CHARITY n. organisation that gives help, such as money or food, to those in need; giving of help to those in need; help given to those in need; kindly attitude towards people.
• CONTROVERSIAL a. causing controversy.
• EMOTIONAL a. readily affected by or appealing to the emotions.
• AMENDS n. to compensate for.
• COMPASSION n. pity, sympathy.
• CELEBRITY n. a famous person.
• ADOPT v. take (someone else's child) as one's own.
• CRITICISE v. to find fault with.
• MORAL a. concerned with right and wrong conduct; based on a sense of right and wrong (of support of a victory). principles of behaviour with respect for right and wrong.
• MISTAKE n. error or blunder.
• POVERTY n. state of being without enough food or money; lack of.
• CARE v. to be concerned, like, be fond of.
• AFFECTION n. fondness or love
• PUBLICITY n. process or information used to arose public attentions.

The twenty words (out of the twenty-five written here, along with their definitions) which I have chosen to highlight in bold, shall be the words which I am going to visually present to fellow classmates in the studio presentation of this research brief on the morning of Monday 1st November.