tackle

Word: tackle

Context Sentence: Ken Livingstone has recently been stressing that the world should do more **to tackle** climate change.

Source:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/newsenglish/witn/2006/11/061103_cuba.shtml

Definition: To take on and wrestle with (an opponent or a problem, for example).

This is a useful word - the things we tackle are often big problems but sometimes they are just difficult situations. Here are some sentences with 'tackle' and I have underlined the object. You can see that not everything is as big as 'climate change'. Most certainly, Stanley Baldwin's first major political concern as Prime Minister was to **tackle** __unemployment.__

You may have to help him at first, but as he progresses, he can **tackle** __more complicated puzzles.__

Chug to Oxford or Shakespeare's Stratford up through the Chiltern hills, visit Stoke Breurne Waterways Museum and if you're feeling really brave you could **tackle** __the two mile long Blisworth Tunnel.__

It may be necessary, however, to **tackle** __a weakness__.

As for the white kids on the estate, they experience the immediate effects --; unemployment, bad housing, but they're in no position to understand or **tackle** __the actual underlying causes.__

As a mature student I found it difficult at first to work on my own or in groups but now that the course is settling down, I feel that I will be able to **tackle** __most tasks in business__ because we have had to learn to look for information and assimilate it so that we make it work for us.