9. People's values in countries

 

 

Obligatory - expected because it usually happens;

To designate - to say officially that a place or thing has a particular character or purpose;

To account for - to form the total of something;

Equal - the same in importance and deserving the same treatment;

Fortune - a large amount of money, goods, property, etc;

Overall - in general rather than in particular, or including all the people or things in a particular group or situation;

Failure - the fact of someone or something not succeeding;

Incapable - unable to do something;

Self-improvement - the activity of learning new things on your own that make you a more skilled or able person;

To attract - (of people, things, places, etc.) to pull or draw someone or something towards them, by the qualities they have, especially good ones;

Humour - the ability to find things funny, the way in which people see that some things are funny, or the quality of being funny;

Counterbalance - to have an equal but opposite effect on something so that it does not have too much of a particular characteristic;

Whir - (especially of machines) to make a low, soft, continuous sound;

Snarl - (especially of dogs) to make a deep, rough sound while showing the teeth, usually in anger or (of people) to speak or say something angrily and forcefully.