Refugee Vocabulary 2

the protection granted by a nation to someone who has left their native country as a political refugee.

• asylum

• oppressive

• brash

• berating

take advantage of other people's generosity without giving anything in return.

• oppressive

• ominous

• sluicing

• freeloading

unjustly inflicting hardship and constraint, especially on a minority or other subordinate group.

• oppressive

• brash

• berating

• freeloading

self-assertive in a rude, noisy, or overbearing way.

• brash

• tedious

• ominous

• oppressive

giving the impression that something bad or unpleasant is going to happen; threatening; inauspicious.

• tedious

• ominous

• sluicing

• berating

too long, slow, or dull; tiresome or monotonous.

• tedious

• asylum

• sluicing

• berating

wash or rinse freely with a stream or shower of water.

• berating

• tedious

• brash

• sluicing

scolding or criticizing (someone) angrily.

• ominous

• berating

• oppressive

• tedious