verdict
ver·dict /ˈvɜːdɪkt $ ˈvɜːr-/ noun [countable]
- someone’s opinion about something:
- The audience’s final verdict was encouraging.
- verdict on
- What’s your verdict on the movie?
- give (somebody) your verdict (on something)
- Trade unionists were quick to give their verdict on the proposals.
demography
de·mog·ra·phy /dɪˈmɒɡrəfi $ -ˈmɑː-/ noun [uncountable]
the study of human populations and the ways in which they change, for example the study of how many births, marriages and deaths happen in a particular place at a particular time
- demographer noun [countable]
articulate
ar·tic·u·late1 /ɑːˈtɪkjəleɪt, ɑːˈtɪkjʊleɪt $ ɑːr-/ verb
- [transitive] formal to express your ideas or feelings in words:
- Many people are unable to articulate the unhappiness they feel.
- [intransitive and transitive] to pronounce what you are saying in a clear and careful way:
- He was so drunk that he could barely articulate his words.
- [intransitive and transitive] technical if something such as a bone in your body is articulated to another thing, it is joined to it in a way that allows movement
- articulate something with something formal if one idea, system etc articulates with another idea, system etc, the two things are related and exist together:
- a new course that is designed to articulate with the current degree course
integrity
in·teg·ri·ty AC /ɪnˈteɡrəti, ɪnˈteɡrɪti/ noun [uncountable]
- the quality of being honest and strong about what you believe to be right
- personal/professional/political etc integrity
- a man of great moral integrity
- formal the state of being united as one complete thing:
- the territorial integrity of the country
consensus
con·sen·sus AC /kənˈsensəs/ noun [singular, uncountable]
- an opinion that everyone in a group agrees with or accepts SYN agreement
- consensus on/about
- a lack of consensus about the aims of the project
- consensus that
- There is a consensus among teachers that children should have a broad understanding of the world.
- The EU Council of Finance Ministers failed to reach a consensus on the pace of integration.
- the current consensus of opinion
- The general consensus was that technology was a good thing.
- the consensus politics of the fifties