British Power Vocabulary Exercise

Great Britain domesticdominantdominateddominationdomineeringdominionpredominant the seas during the 18th and 19th centuries. Its military power was also predominant, giving it domesticdominantdominateddominationdomineeringdominionpredominant over a large part of the globe. From 1815 until at least the First World War, Britain was the domesticdominantdominateddominationdomineeringdominionpredominant world power. It was able to introduce its culture and impose its laws and language on colonies from New Zealand to India and Africa to Canada, so that they could truly say the sun never set on the British empire.

By the end of the Second World War, so many people in the British colonies resented British domesticdominantdominateddominationdomineeringdominionpredominant (and the domesticdominantdominateddominationdomineeringdominionpredominant attitude that often went with it) that Britain was forced to give most colonies independence. Besides, the British public was ready to concentrate on domesticdominantdominateddominationdomineeringdominionpredominant affairs and recovery from the effects of several difficult wars.

Many former colonies have kept some ties with their old “mother country,” as part of the British Commonwealth or by keeping the English language (as well as some laws and customs) as a unifying force in countries with many different ethnic groups. This is a major reason English is becoming the domesticdominantdominateddominationdomineeringdominionpredominant language of commerce and international relations.