Engelska glosor

The exercise was created 26.10.2023 by StinaB. Anzahl Fragen: 57.




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  • Brevity being brief
  • Contemporary existing/happening in recent/the same time
  • Conquest take over
  • Controversy hot topic, disagreement
  • Colonize take control over land
  • Sectarian violence conflict between parts of an group, religious/political
  • Ulster Northern Ireland
  • Penal laws laws against catholics
  • Concession giving up something
  • Famine starvation, lack of food
  • Home rule bill law that allows self determination
  • Martyrs killed/died because of their beliefs
  • Republican a government with a president
  • Parliament legislative body of government, makes the laws
  • Independance breaking free from others
  • Treaty formal agreement
  • Segregation isolation between people
  • Civil rights freedoms of citizens, freedom of speech
  • PM (Prime Minister) head of a government
  • Biased taking a specific side of an argument
  • Constabulary police force
  • Paramilitary armed force similar to a military
  • Curfew making people stay indoors between specific hours
  • Internment imprisonment, putting people in prison/like prison
  • Ire anger
  • Tough tits Tough luck
  • Honeymoon holiday after a wedding/happy day
  • Reprisal retaliation, revenge
  • Checkpoints barriers or entrance between two sides
  • Barricades barriers to block others
  • Insurgent rebel
  • Domestic (as in "domestic flight") within a country
  • Disband break up
  • Sentiment view or opinion
  • Ostracized excluded from a group
  • Incarcerated put in prison
  • Back-channel negotiation private negotiations
  • Barter trading goods or services
  • tit-for-tat eye for an eye
  • Ceasefire temporary stoppage of war/conflict
  • Retaliate revenge, reprisal
  • Inventive imaginative or creative
  • Guerilla attacks targeted attacks and suprise attacks
  • Virtual ("virtually unknown") almost
  • Taxing effects bad consequence
  • POW (prisoner of war) caught by the enemy
  • Hunger strike refusal to eat as a protest
  • MP (Member of parliament) person elected in UK
  • Assembly gathered people
  • Discredit harm reputation
  • Assassinate killed for a reason
  • Advisory role giving advice to someone
  • Morale confidence and discipline of a group
  • Mortars weapon to throw grenades
  • Commission group of people or a role given to someone
  • Torment severe suffering
  • First Minister (UK government) Leader of Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales

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