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level: Level 1 of Migrations

Questions and Answers List

level questions: Level 1 of Migrations

Question	Answer
a written or spoken description or record of an event	ACCOUNT
someone who leaves their own country, often for political reasons or because of war, and who travels to another country hoping that the government will protect them and allow them to live there	ASYLUM SEEKER
suburbs	BANLIEUE
wishing to fight or argue	BELLIGERENT
a person who has strong, unreasonable beliefs and who does not like other people who have different beliefs or a different way of life	BIGOT
the fact of having and expressing strong, unreasonable beliefs and disliking other people who have different beliefs or a different way of life	BIGOTRY
If a place is bleak, it is empty, and not welcoming or attractive	BLEAK
involvement in a crime or some activity that is wrong	COMPLICITY
to criticize something or someone strongly, usually for moral reasons	CONDEMN
very noticeable or attracting attention, often in a way that is not wanted	CONSPICUOUS
(often of something bad) intentional or planned	DELIBERATE
the state or fact of being related to a particular person or group of people who lived in the past	DESCENT
the state of being without money, food, a home, or possessions	DESTITUTION
believing strongly in a religion and obeying all its rules or principles	DEVOUT
to see, recognize, or understand something that is not clear	DISCERN
able to be seen or understood	DISCERNIBLE
difficult to describe, find, achieve, or remember	ELUSIVE
marked or shown in order to be very noticeable	EMBLAZONED
Entrenched ideas are so fixed or have existed for so long that they cannot be changed	ENTRENCHED
used to describe beliefs that are strongly and sincerely felt or people who have strong and sincere beliefs	FERVENT
to combine or be combined together	FUSE
clothes of a particular type	GARB
someone who goes to a party or other event when they have not been invited	GATECRASHER
to bite or chew something repeatedly, usually making a hole in it or gradually destroying it	GNAW
extremely bad, worrying, or without hope	GRIM
the edge of a road where rain flows away	GUTTER
(something that causes) difficult or unpleasant conditions of life, or an example of this	HARDSHIP
to make it more difficult for something to happen or more difficult for someone to do something	IMPEDE
something that makes progress, movement, or achieving something difficult or impossible	IMPEDIMENT
a feeling that you want to do a particular thing, or the fact that you prefer or are more likely to do a particular thing	INCLINATION
An indelible mark or substance is impossible to remove by washing or in any other way	INDELIBLE
(especially of a problem or a difficulty) so great that it cannot be dealt with successfully	INSURMOUNTABLE
someone who becomes involved in an activity or a social group without being asked, or enters a place without permission	INTERLOPER
someone who has been forced to leave their home, especially because of war or a natural disaster (= something that causes a lot of damage) such as an earthquake, flood, etc.	INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSON (IDP)
liking, interested in, or wanting (to do) something very much	KEEN ON STH
to leave someone in a place from which they cannot escape	MAROON
to avoid someone intentionally, or to prevent someone from taking part in the activities of a group	OSTRACIZE
equality, especially of pay or position	PARITY
to make a very small hole or holes in the surface of something, sometimes in a way that causes pain	PRICK
producing a great number or amount of something	PROLIFIC
a fixed, limited amount or number that is officially allowed	QUOTA
to say formally or publicly that you no longer own, support, believe in, or have a connection with something	RENOUNCE
expressing criticism	REPROACHFUL
the part that is left after the main part has gone or been taken away, or a substance that remains after a chemical process such as evaporation	RESIDUE
a division into two groups caused by a disagreement about ideas, especially in a religious organization	SCHISM
to (cause something to) break suddenly into very small pieces	SHATTER
to avoid something	SHUN
to spread a liquid or a thick substance over a surface	SMEAR
to run, drive, or cause to drift onto a strand; to leave in a strange or an unfavorable place especially without funds or means to depart	STRAND
something that prevents action or agreement	STUMBLING BLOCK
based on or believing in superstitions (= beliefs based on old ideas about luck and magic rather than science or reason)	SUPERSTITIOUS
secretly, without anyone seeing or knowing	SURREPTITIOUSLY
real and not imaginary; able to be shown, touched, or experienced	TANGIBLE
an area covered in Tarmac, especially the area in an airport where aircraft land and take off	TARMAC
to pull a plant including its roots out of the ground	UPROOT