Refugee Vocabulary

a public area on which people walk or stroll for pleasure

• promenade
• beret
• sluicing
• elation

having an excessive suspicion about others

• promenade
• languish
• paranoid
• recoil

strong anger due to something unjust or insulting

• oblivious
• indignation
• sluicing
• squalid

of lower value or quality

• vacant
• inferior
• recoil
• radical

to be called to appear at a specific place

• summoned
• incoherently
• elation
• tedious

appearing to be in a daze; unresponsive

• catatonic
• fragile
• recoil
• languish

the remains of anything destroyed; trash

• debris
• condolences
• diminutive
• incoherently

extremely thin from hunger or exhaustion

• catatonic
• gaunt
• bodega
• recoil

to become weak or feeble from neglect

• ominous
• churlish
• languish
• radical

feeling or looking embarrassed

• diminutive
• ominous
• sheepish
• inferior