number of things connected to one another

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Unit 2 Vocabulary

Question	Answer
To go with someone	accompany
To get something	acquire
to decrease in number	decline
to treat some people worse than others	to discriminate
a number of different types	diversity
to get away from or get free from	escape
a quality of something or someone	feature
to move in an uninterrupted way	flow
the members of a family or society of the same age	generation
to promise or make certain something will happen	guarantee
a difficult condition	hardship
to cause things to be part of a group	integrate
unable to read or write	illiterate
to treat cruelly or unfairly	oppress
to own or to have	possess
unfair opinion about someone or something	prejudice
a set of actions to achieve a result	process
wealthy and successful	prosperous
something valuable that you give up in order to do something else	sacrifice
important	significant
to die or almost die of hunger	starve
in a row without interruption	successive
something representing something else	symbol
the process of changing from one condition to another	transition
physical action that can hurt or damange	violence
able to be seen	visible
to change to be better for a specific situation	adapt
to examine carefully	analyze
facts about a person's life	background
to question if a claim is true	challenge
a group of people who have something in common	community
to try to win	compete
belonging to present time	contemporary
the shared way of life of a group of people that includes customs, idea, values and traditions	culture
connected with a group of people with a specific national or cultural background	ethic
to increase in size	expand
to treat better than others	favor
to employ	hire
unfriendly	hostile
to decide the meaning of something	interpret
work	labor
network	number of things connected to one another
the repeated way something is organized	pattern
to go before	precede
the relationship in size or amount between two things	proportion
to try to achieve	pursue
a person who leaves his home and goes to another place for safety	refugee
to feel angry about something	resent
a person, place or thing from which you get something	source
a person's legal position	status
something done completely and carefully	thorough
to change in order to deal with a new situation	adapt
to agree something is true	admit
consider something is good	approve of
not exact but close	approximate
to become like the things or people around you	assimilate
to decide and promise to do something	commit
to say you are unhappy or dissatisfied	complain
strong disagreement on a topic	controversy
in, from, or to some other place	elsewhere
connected to direct experience	empirical
stated clearly	explicit
almost not	hardly
impossible to avoid or prevent	inevitable
a subject often a problem that people talk about	issue
probable	likely
a person born in a certain place	native
to disagree	oppose
a set of ideas that control the way people deal with situations	policy
a survey that finds out what the public feels	poll
to prevent something from being damaged	preserve
an unscientific way to describe people who share physical traits	race
to throw back heat, light or sound. or to show	reflect
to keep or not lose	retain
to choose	select
to move somewhere and make it your home	settle
to accept that something is true	acknowledge
real, a fact	actual
to deal with a topic	address
to believe that something is true without proof	assume
a tendency to be in favor of something or someone	bias
to acknowledge a source of information	cite
to hold inside	contain
to say the opposite	contradict
to show	demonstrate
to judge or assess	evaluate
a test that is conducted to learn if something is true	experiment
to make something as small as possible	minimize
specifically	namely
describing things using facts not opinions	objective
very easy to understand	obvious
to use your senses and mind to form a picture of reality	perceive
to continue to exist	persist
with logic and reason	rationally
cure	remedy
to fight back	resist
to find or get	seek
an action in a series	step
higher in quality	superior
willing to accept things that are different	tolerant
someone who is hurt by disease, violence, crime, disaster or accident	victim

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