E X E R C I S E 1: Find words or phrases in the passage which mean the same as:
COLUMN A COLUMN B
a) concerned with real situations with concrete
results, rather than with ideas
b) protest or act strongly against something
(phrasal verb)
c) the people who belong to a king or queen's
family
d) increase in size or degree
e) support one of the opposing groups {phrasal
verb)
f) make very angry
g) unreasonably determined to have one's own
way
h) harsh or strict in treating someone
i) hit or strike repeatedly
j) a slender, usually flexible, stem of certain
plants such as bamboo
k) very cruel use of power or authority; harshness
I) a condition in which someone is kept alone and
not allowed to see or speak to anyone else
(phrase)
m) the room in a prison in which the prisoner is
locked
n) the official killing of someone
o) go somewhere together with someone
p) a fleeing from danger or oppression
q) pitiless; cruel
r) cleverly deceitful; skilful in deception
s) believing that people are motivated in all their
actions only by selfishness
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