Vocabulary U3 Flashcards by fershi 2004

Widespread

Prevalent

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Harrowing

Traumatic

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Impoverished

Destitute

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Chastening

Humbling

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Altruistic

Selfless

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Showing compassion and kindness to people and animals

Humane

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Having an unreasonable hatred of a particular group of people

Prejudiced

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Willing to be kind to and forgive people in your power

Merciful

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Dishonestly using your position to get money or some advantage

Corrupt

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Willing to accept beliefs that are different from your own

Tolerant

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Cruel, violent and completely without feeling

Brutal

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Willing to help and be generous towards others

Benevolent

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Not interested in anything; not willing to try to change things

Apathetic

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Fair, morally correct, supported by a good reason

Just

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Unkind, cruel and without sympathy or feeling for other people

Callous

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An inner feeling or voice viewed as acting as a guide to the rightness or wrongness of one’s behavior

Conscience

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Aware of what is happening

Conscious

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To control or rule in a harsh or cruel way

Oppress

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To prevent something from being expressed or known

Suppress

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To treat someone unfairly or cruelly over a long period of time because of their race, religion, or political beliefs

Persecuted

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To officially accuse someone of committing a crime in a law court, or (of a lawyer) to try to prove that a person accused of committing a crime is guilty of that crime

Prosecuted

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Having a lot of money or owning a lot of things

Affluent

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Liquid waste that is sent out from factories

Effluent

To pay out money, usually from an amount that has been collected for a particular purpose

Disburse

To spread across or move away

Disperse

To leave a country permanently and go to live in another one

Emigrate

To come to live in a different country

Immigrate

The ability to share someone else's feelings or experiences by imagining what it would be like to be in that person's situation

Empathy

Understanding and care for someone else's suffering

Sympathy

To criticize something or someone strongly, usually for moral reasons

Condemn

To accept or allow behaviour that is wrong

Condone

Boycott

A product

Form

a human chain

Hold

a protest | a rally

Make

a fuse

Mount

a protest | a campaign

Occupy

a workplace | a factory

Picket

a workplace | a factory

Stage

a protest | a rally

Order opposite

Disorder

Obedience opposite

Disobedience

Possessed opposite

Dispossessed

Tolerance opposite

Intolerance

Justice opposite

Injustice

Equality opposite

Inequality

Merciful opposite

Unmerciful

Biased opposite

Unbiased

Equal opposite (2)

Unequal

Paid opposite

Underpaid

Fed opposite

Underfed

Privileged opposite

Underprivileged

Abstain from buying

Boycott

Industrial action

Strike

Mutual support

Solidarity

Not real

Fake

Able to encourage

Inspiring

Having knowledge of something

Awareness