vocabulary cards

Vocabulary Flash CardsBy Wacharit Taranat

RefugeeA person who seeks safety from war, danger or natural disasters

PersecutionTreating a person or group unfairly/cruelly

MigrateTo move from a country/region and settle in another

ComprehendTo Understand

ComprehensionThe act of

understanding

ComprehensibleSomething

understandable

Incomprehensible

Something difficult/impossible to understand

ConformTo act in agreement with rules/standards

Underprivileged

Someone who is lacking opportunities

Infer

To derive by reasoning

Naturalization

CitizenThe process that a foreigner acquires citizenship

A person that belongs to a country by birth or choice

StereotypeA fixed set of ideas.

Empathy

Being able to experience feeling or thoughts of others

Accurate Monitor

Correct in all data

To check continually

Incredulous

Not willing to believe

Indignant

Angry about something you think is unfair

Reluctantly

Doing something in a way that shows that you don’t want to do it

Asylum

Protection given by a country to a person

Descendant

A person A person born of an ancestor, family or group

Discrimination

Treatment based on class or category

Analyze

To interpret or evaluate

Interpret

To express the meaning of something

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Evaluate

To express an opinion of something

Reformatory

An institution for young people who do not behave properly(kind of like a jail).

Resemblance

Similarity

Abruptly

Sudden changes

Solitude

To be alone

Perplexed

To be confused or puzzled

Iridescent

Something colorful or bright

Harangue

To harangue someone means to scold or chastise them

Liberate

To liberate means to free someone or something

Glean

To gather slowly and laboriously

Intermittent

Something that stops and starts

Rueful

When someone is expressing sorrow or sadness

Boisterous

To be rough and noisy

Murmur

To say something in a low and/or soft voice

Morbid

To have a weird or abnormal interest

Peruse

To read thoroughly or carefully

Materialize

To become real or appear in a bodily form

Expulsion

Being forced to leave a place

Sprawl

To spread out over an area on an untidy way