Trash - Key Vocabulary

Question 1

What is corruption

Answer 1

Corruption is dishonesty and illegal behaviour by people in positions of power.

Question 2

Shanty

Answer 2

A small rough hut that poor people live in built from tin, cardboard or other weak materials

Question 3

Stifiling

Answer 3

Stifiling heat is so intense that it makes you uncomfortable. People also use the word stifiling to show a place is very hot

Question 4

Squatter

Answer 4

A squatter is someone who lives in an unused building without having a legal right to do so and without paying any rent or property tax

Question 5

Siphon

Answer 5

If you siphon money or resources from something, you use them for a purpose for which they are not intended

Question 6

Prosecution

Answer 6

The lawyers that try to provetp that a person is guilty is the prosecution.

Question 7

Poise

Answer 7

If someone has poise, they are calm, dignified and self-controlled

Question 8

Destitute

Answer 8

Someone who is destitute is someone with no money or possessions

Question 9

Marginalise

Answer 9

To marginalise a group of people is to make the feel isolated and unimportant