English OMAM key Vocab For EOY Examss Flashcards

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What is isolation?

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The process or fact of isolating or being isolated. (Being alone / apart from others

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What is loneliness

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Sadness because one has no friends or company.

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What is racism?

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inferior to others, and the behaviour which is the result of this belief.

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What is segregation

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The action or state of setting someone or something apart from others

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What is a nomadic?

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A person who moves from one place to another in order to find work or better living conditions.

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What is cyclical?

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Occurring in cycles; recurrent

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What is a hierarchy?

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A system in which members of an organisation or society are ranked according to relative status or authority

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What is marginilisation?

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To marginilise a group of people means to make them feel isolated and unimportant

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What is the American Dream?

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The ideal by which equality of opportunity is available to any American, allowing the highest aspirations and goals to be achieved

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The Great Depression

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A long and severe recession in an economy or market

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What is the Dust Bowl?

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An area of land where vegetation has been lost and soil reduced to dust and eroded, especially because of drought or unsuitable farming practice.

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oscar pow

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Tags: paryag, brown, benjamin, varadi, wooden, simmons, turley, lopes-otero, salisbury, pelagio, warren, brosnan, pow, van proosdij, tula, big mac excrete, wor’on, maguire, ferns, soares, guerney, felt, o’dwyer, rowe, john, bourached

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