engelska 6 - strategic word work, unit 5

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• Column A text in a newspaper which appears regularly
• Like wildfire Very quickly
• Surpass To be bigger than/greater than
• Interpreter A person who translates spoken language
• Civil servant A person who works for the government
• Ethnicity Group of people with the same sense of identity since they share cultural background/language/history/traditions
• Former colony Area which used to be under another country's rule
• Vast majority The greater majority
• Nationalist Supporter of one's own country with the belief that it is better/more important than other countries
• Fervour Strong feelings of excitement, enthusiasm
• Native Belonging to a person since birth/childhood
• Article (ling.) Words that define nouns
• Abbreviations A shortened version of a word
• Vowel Not a consonant. Letters like a, e, o, u, i
• Ancestor Someone in a person's family in past times
• Predecessor An earlier version of something
• Mish-mash Confusing mixture of things

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