Refugee Vocabulary 1

Concentration Camp

• a place where students learn to concentrate

• a place where persons (such as political prisoners) are detained

• a public area on which people walk or stroll for pleasure

• an area of a city where there are parks and playgrounds

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Indignation

• anger caused by something that is unfair or wrong

• of lower value or quality

• having excessive suspicion of others

• happiness at having succeeded

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

Catatonic

• feeling or looking embarrassed

• extreme distress from suffering

• appearing to be in a daze; unresponsive

• the remains of anything destroyed; trash

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Paranoid

• strong anger due to something unjust or insulting

• mental illness that causes false beliefs that people are trying to harm you

• eeling insignificant, lesser

• an illness that causes problems in the throat; a pain in the neck

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

Dictator

• a person elected to be the judge in the courtrooms of the legal system

• a group of people sharing the power and ruling a country along

• a person elected by the citizens to be the leader of a country

• a person who rules a country with total authority and often in a cruel way

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Scowled

• to look at someone or something in a way that shows anger or disapproval

• to walk away from someone or something because of fear

• cut or divided into two equal parts

• doubtful, indecisve

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Revolution

• tiny, small particles exploding inside of atoms

• a type of mathematics with fractions and decimals

• the attempt of people to vote for change

• the attempt by citizens to end the rule of one government to start a new on

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

Communism

• a way of organizing society with elected leaders controlling the government

• a way of organizing society in which the government owns the things and shares equally

• a way of organizing society with religion controlling the government

• a way of organizing society with royal families controlling the government

Condemned

• in favor of drastic or extreme political and social changes

• suggesting an evil or harmful outcome

• to say in a strong way that someone or something is bad or wrong

• staring awkwardly or obviously

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4