Vocabulary:

ratify verb [T]
to make an agreement official
Sixty-five nations need to ratify the treaty.
Many countries have now ratified the UN convention on the rights of the child.
The decision will have to be ratified (= approved) by the executive board.
Four countries have now ratified the agreement.
ratificationnoun [U]
The Senate will consider ratification of the treaty in July.
uphold verb [T] past upheld
1 AGREE to agree with a decision, especially a legal one, and say it was correct
The court upheld the ruling.
The Supreme Court upheld California's term limit measure.
2 SUPPORT to support a decision, principle, or law
Police officers are expected to uphold the law.

infamous adjective
famous for being bad , notorious
He is infamous for saying that cheating is the way the game is played.
The area became infamous for its slums.
The list included the infamous George Drake, a double murderer.
He's infamous for his bigoted sense of humour.
infamy noun FORMAL
1 [U] when someone or something is famous for something considered bad:
Franklin D. Roosevelt described the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1947 as 'a day that will live in infamy'.
2 [C] a bad and shocking act or event:
For the relatives of those who had died in the war, the final infamy was the pardoning of the draft-dodgers.
Franklin Roosevelt spoke of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor as "a day that will live in infamy."
dupe verb [T]
to deceive someone, usually making them do something they did not intend to do:
to cheat (someone) by telling lies or by deceiving them, to trick someone
[often passive,+ into + doing sth] He was duped into paying $4000 for a fake painting.
They duped me into giving them money by saying it would go to charity.
The girls were duped by drug smugglers into carrying heroin for them.

dupe noun [C]
someone who has been tricked:
an innocent dupe

jittery adjective INFORMAL
1 nervous:
He felt all jittery before the interview.
She gets quite jittery about exams.
2 shaky and slightly uncontrolled:
I get really jittery if I drink too much coffee.
Gwen always felt jittery when she got up on stage.
jitters plural noun
a feeling of nervousness that you experience before something important happens
I always get the jitters the morning before an exam.
FIGURATIVE The collapse of the company has caused jitters in the financial markets.

Inaneadjective
very silly and annoying
extremely silly or lacking real meaning or importance:
an inane question
There are too many inane quiz shows on television these days.
inanely adverb
He grinned inanely.
inanity noun [C or U]
His speech was full of inanities that were meant to be funny.
I was amazed at the inanity of some of her comments.