Baby Steps Are the Only Way to go

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  • Conventional traditional and ordinary.
  • Rescind to make a law, agreement, order, or decision no longer have any (legal) power.
  • A ballot a system or occasion of secret voting.
  • Subsidy money given as part of the cost of something, to help or encourage it to happen.
  • Jump on the bandwagon to join an activity that has become very popular or to change your opinion to one that has become very popular so that you can share in its success.
  • Proposal a suggestion, sometimes a written one.
  • Implement to start using a plan or system.
  • A wonk a person who works or studies too much, especially someone who learns and knows all the details about something.
  • Electorate all the people who are allowed to vote.
  • Wary careful because you do not completely trust someone or something or are not certain about what you should do.
  • Contender someone who competes with other people to try to win something.
  • Proposal a suggestion, sometimes a written one.
  • Advocacy public support of an idea, plan, or way of doing something.
  • Partisan strongly supporting a person, principle, or political party, often without considering or judging the matter very carefully:
  • Substansive important, serious, or related to real facts:
  • Reduce to become or to make something become smaller in size, amount, degree, importance, etc.
  • Achilles heel a small problem or weakness in a person or system that can result in failure.
  • Parlance a group of words or style of speaking used by a particular group of people.
  • Salient The salient facts about something or are the most important things about them.
  • Outsized extremely large and considered too large by many people:
  • Spike to rise to a higher amount, price, or level, usually before going down again.
  • Mass transit a system of public transport in a city.
  • To plough to dig land with a plough.
  • Scarcity a situation in which something is not easy to find or get.
  • Malice the wish to harm or upset other people.
  • Fiat an order given by a person in authority.
  • Exogenous found or coming from outside.
  • Aligned to put two or more things into a straight line.
  • Manufacturer a company that produces goods in large numbers.
  • Equity the situation in which everyone is treated fairly and equally.
  • Vulnerability the quality of being vulnerable (= able to be easily hurt, influenced, or attacked), or something that is vulnerable.
  • Mantle a layer of something that covers a surface.
  • Synthetic Synthetic products are made from artificial substances, often copying a natural product.
  • Efficacy the ability, especially of a medicine or a method of achieving something, to produce the intended result.
  • Tangible real and not imaginary; able to be shown, touched, or experienced.
  • Antithetical exactly the opposite of someone or something or of each other.
  • Insofar as to the degree that.
  • Whereas compared with the fact that; but.
  • Disaggregate to separate something into separate parts.
  • Salience the fact of being important to or connected with what is happening or being discussed: "the salience of these facts was questioned by several speakers."
  • Escalate to become or make something become greater or more serious.
  • Utility a service that is used by the public, such as an electricity or gas supply or a train service.
  • Procurment the process of getting supplies.
  • Bipartisan supported by or consisting of two political parties.
  • Liability the fact that someone is legally responsible for something.
  • Compromise an agreement in an argument in which the people involved reduce their demands or change their opinion in order to agree.
  • Threshold the level or point at which you start to experience something, or at which something starts to happen.
  • Accomplish to finish something successfully or to achieve something.
  • The Green New Deal A government-focused solution to climate change, which requires heavy investment in infrastructure from the government. It is much like the idea of a Marshal Plan for the Earth.

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