Advanced English

be endowed with

to have a particular quality or feature (idiom)

recurrent

happening again many times (adj)

conducive

providing the right conditions for something good to happen or exist (adj)

vis-à-vis

in relation to

detrimental

causing harms or damages (adj)

incur

to experience something bad as a result of actions you have taken

conviction

a strong opinion or belief (n)

transgression against

the act or process of breaking a law or moral rule (collocation)

renege

to fail to keep a promise or an agreement

delineate

to describe or mark the edge of something

ascertain

to make certain of something

rigid

stiff or fixed (adj)

pander to

to please other people by doing or saying what you think they want you to do or say

induce

to cause/to persuade

demarcation

a border or a rule that shows the limits of something or how things are divided

augment

to increase the size or value of something by adding something to it