"Before We Were Free" Vocabulary

an official whose job is to live in a foreign country and protect the citizens of

his own country who are there

• consul

• embargo

• communism

• guillotine

being forced to leave one's country or home and live somewhere else

• exiled

• embargo

• cadaver

• oppression

set (someone) free from a situation, especially imprisonment or slavery

• exile

• liberate

• confiscate

• oppression

when one country will not trade with another country because of what they are doing

• exile

• embargo

• deportation

• dictator

A machine with a large blade used to cut off heads

• exile

• cadaver

• guillotine

• dictator

To take something away from someone (usually as a punishment)

• languid

• cadaver

• confiscate

• consul

A dead body, sometimes used for science

• languid

• cadaver

• confiscate

• languid

prolonged unjust or cruel behavior which keeps people down

• languid

• oppression

• confiscate

• deportation

to take out information from books, movies, etc., that is considered inappropriate or bad

• censor

• oppression

• confiscate

• dissident

people who go against the government, especially a dictator

• censor

• oppression

• confiscate

• dissident