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Global pollution: seeking solutions

Ministers from around 100 countries are meeting to finish a declaration to fight global pollution.

Language challenge

An environmental meeting in Kenya has met to discuss global pollution including toxic paint and limiting ocean plastic. Which of these is not a synonym for ‘limit’?

a) hinder

b) inhibit

c) restrict

d) slacken

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The story

Environment ministers from about a hundred countries are meeting in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, to try to finalise a declaration to combat pollution.

Challenges include banning the use of toxic lead in paint and limiting the amount of plastic that finds its way into the ocean.

Key words and phrases

Armageddon
a highly destructive event

pact
formal agreement

rampant
increasingly out of control

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Language challenge - answer

d) slacken

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