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combat
Noun
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A combat is a fight or a battle.
discrimination
Noun
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Discrimination is the act of treating someone unfairly just because of their skin colour, religion, sex, etc.
Even in 2007, there's still too much sex discrimination at the higher levels of big business.
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Discrimination is the ability to notice differences.
At this small size, discrimination is very difficult.
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Discrimination is the ability to recognise high levels of quality.
The clothes were chosen by someone with discrimination.
against
Preposition
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In opposition, or not agreeing, to.
I am against that proposal. I think it is a bad idea.
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Pressed to.
He held her head against his chest.
migrant
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adjective
(= migratory)
habitually moving from place to place especially in search of seasonal work
appalled by the social conditions of migrant life
migratory workers
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noun
traveler who moves from one region or country to another
and
Conjunction
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You use and to talk about two things at once.
I like singing and reading.
Mary and Jane went on a holiday together.
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You use and when you are listing a few things and you are now on your last item of the list.
I like singing, reading, cycling and playing soccer.
I used to like this girl from my class as she is pretty, gentle and caring.
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And is used when you are putting two sentences together.
She came into the store, shouted at the cashier, and left.
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Used to show what happened after something else.
The alarm went off and I woke up.
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And is used to join certain numbers together.
Two hundred and thirty-five people went missing after the earthquake.
ethnic
Adjective
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An ethnic group is a group related by race, culture, and/or nationality.
The Irish are the largest, but least visible, ethnic minority in Britain.
The school has students from over 20 different ethnic backgrounds.
minority
Noun
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A minority is less than half (50%) of some group.
Most people agreed, but a sizable minority were upset by the decision.
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A minority is a member of an ethnic group that does not have political or social power.
The company claims it has hired several minorities since the complaint was lodged.
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Minority is the state of being a minor, not an adult.
worker
Noun
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A worker is a person who works, usually for money.
The workers are putting a new roof on the house.
in
Preposition
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Used to show that something is inside something else.
The cat is in the box.
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Used to show that someone is at home, or is available.
Is John in?
The Doctor is now in.
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Used to show movement towards the inside.
The rain came in through the window.
the
Determiner
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Used, instead of a, to reference something specific, already known to exist.
Compare "I read a book." and "I read the book."
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Used with a stress, to show that the word following is special.
Are you the John Smith that I went to school with?
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Used with an adjective that acts like a noun to mean all of the people concerned
The poor are always with us.
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Used with superlatives forms of adjectives and adverbs.
You are the best.
world
Noun
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The Earth.
Our world needs to be cared for.
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The .
I love you more than anybody else in the world.
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The setting of a group of people.
They were in their own world as they talked about trains nobody else knew about.
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A planet.
I wonder if there is life on other worlds.
of
Preposition
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Made using.
It is a house of cards.
work
Verb
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If you work, you do a job, usually for money.
My father works at Microsoft.
I got to work at 7:30 each morning.
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If you work you are doing something that needs effort.
I worked on my school paper all night long.
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If somethings works it has done what it was supposed to do.
If my computer didn't work I couldn't type this.
I'm glad our plan worked.
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How something works is how it does what it does.
I would like to know more about how cars work.
The rules here just do not work that way.
work
Noun
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Your work is your job.
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Work is effort it takes to do something. That is, its what makes you tired when you do something hard.
Moving heavy logs takes a lot of work.
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Work is force through a distance (force times distance). This is how much energy you used to move something.
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A work is the product of something, the result of working on it. That is, its something someone has made.
The painting was a great work of art.
Shakespeare wrote many literary works.