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Making Connections 3
Unit 2 Reading 5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| allegation | accusation made without proof |
| ban | to forbid or not allow legally |
| bias | unfair personal attitude for or against somebody or something |
| cohesion | being or working close together and in agreement |
| compound | to make a bad situation worse by adding to it |
| contract | to state the opposite of what somebody else has said |
| detrimental | harmful |
| disruption | interruption |
| evict | to force out |
| homogenous | all of the same kind |
| impede | to slow something down or cause problems to its progress |
| impending | approaching, about to happen |
| in favor of | in support of |
| institute | to start a policy |
| integration | mixing different things together |
| irrational | without good reason |
| massacre | the killing of a large group of defenseless people |
| merit | deserving praise |
| remedy | cure, solution to a problem |
| resistant | against |
| sanctions | official action against another government's economy because of its unacceptable political policies |
| secular | not religious |
| stereotype | fixed idea based on over-generalization of the characteristics of that group of people |
| stratification | arrangement in a series of layers |
| stringent | strict or difficult |