Trump administration moves to cancel all remaining federal contracts with Harvard – YouTube Dictation Transcript & Vocabulary
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1.President Trump is planning to sever all remaining contracts with Harvard today, to sources
2.These are government contracts worth roughly $100 million
3.And this escalation comes just days after he threatened to ax an additional $3 billion in funding for the university, as legal battles are playing out in court
4.Just a short time ago, the first of two key hearings happened that are happening this week took place
5.We have CNN's Katelyn Polantz this for us
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Key Vocabulary (CEFR C2)
according
B1To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust.
Example:
"President Trump is planning to sever all remaining contracts with Harvard today, according to sources."
following
B1To go after; to pursue; to move behind in the same path or direction.
Example:
"following this for us. What's been going on? Well, Brianna, today they were in court just for the moment,"
terminated
B1To end, especially in an incomplete state.
Example:
"that Trump wants terminated? Right. So, Brianna, there's been sort of a laundry list that the White House has worked through of trust, telling Harvard"
endowment
B2Something with which a person or thing is endowed.
Example:
"all very important. Even if $100 million might be chump change to a school with a giant endowment."
terminate
B1To end, especially in an incomplete state.
Example:
"that Trump wants terminated? Right. So, Brianna, there's been sort of a laundry list that the White House has worked through of trust, telling Harvard"
distinguish
B2To recognize someone or something as different from others based on its characteristics.
Example:
"because they don't like my speech. Right. So I think it's important to distinguish between students"
potential
B1Currently unrealized ability (with the most common adposition being to)
Example:
"by the political upside that you see that you don't see the potential long game problems here on things like research?"
communist
B1An advocate of a society based on the common ownership of property; a proponent of communism.
Example:
"and the Chinese Communist Party, which came up last week? Is it about, fighting woke de"
complaining
B2To express feelings of pain, dissatisfaction, or resentment.
Example:
"keeps complaining that Harvard is not giving him a list of these foreign students? The administration"
vocational
B1Of or pertaining to a vocation.
Example:
"vocational and trade schools around the country?"
| Word | CEFR | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| according | B1 | To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust. |
| following | B1 | To go after; to pursue; to move behind in the same path or direction. |
| terminated | B1 | To end, especially in an incomplete state. |
| endowment | B2 | Something with which a person or thing is endowed. |
| terminate | B1 | To end, especially in an incomplete state. |
| distinguish | B2 | To recognize someone or something as different from others based on its characteristics. |
| potential | B1 | Currently unrealized ability (with the most common adposition being to) |
| communist | B1 | An advocate of a society based on the common ownership of property; a proponent of communism. |
| complaining | B2 | To express feelings of pain, dissatisfaction, or resentment. |
| vocational | B1 | Of or pertaining to a vocation. |
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