Vocabulary Flashcards

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Naturalization

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To confer upon an alien the rights and privileges of a citizen

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Internment

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The state of being interned; confinement

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Armada

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Fleet of ships

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Interrogation

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The act of interrogating questioning intensely demanding

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Uncouth

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Strange and ungraceful in appearance or form

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Councilors

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Lawmakers

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Concentration

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Bringing together military forces

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Aliens

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A foreigner who has not yet gone through naturalization

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Saboteur

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A person who commits or practices sabotage

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Ghetto

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A section of the city especially a thickly populated slum area, inhabited predominately by members of an ethnic or other minority group, often as a result of social or economic restrictions, pressures, or hardships

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Persecute

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To pursue with harassing or oppressive especially because of religion, race, believes, harass persistently

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Tolerance

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A fair objective and permissive attitude toward opinions and practices that differ from ones own

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Compound

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Any enclosure to hold prisoners of war

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Evacuation

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The act or process of evacuating, where the condition of being evacuated; discharge or expulsion, as of contents

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Confiscators

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To seize property

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Barracks

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A building or group of buildings for lodging soldiers and especially in Garrison

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Samurai

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A member of the hereditary warrior class in feudal Japan

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Vigil

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A purposeful watch maintained especially at night to guard observe pray etc. and act or period of watch

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Fedora

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A soft felt hat with a curled brim, worn with the crown creased lengthwise

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Patriarch

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The male head of the family or tribal line

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Migrant workers

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A person who moves from place to place to get work especially a farm labor to harvest crops seasonally

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Camps

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Place where an army or other group of persons or an individual is lodged in a tent or tents or other temporary means of shelter