Essential Vocabulary for Migration and Society

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Immigrant: (noun) A person who has come to a different country in order to live there permanently.
Inhabitant: (noun) A person or animal in a particular place.
Politician: (noun) A member of a government or law-making organisation.
Refugee: (noun) A person who has escaped from their own country for political, religious, or economic reasons or because of a war.
Audience: (noun) The group of people together in one place to watch or listen to a play, film, someone speaking, etc.
Motorist: (noun) A person who drives a car.
Pedestrian: (noun) A person who is walking, especially in a place.
Resident: (noun) A person who lives or has their home in a place.
Crew: (noun) The people who work together on a ship, aircraft, or train.
Staff: (noun) The group of people who work for an organisation.
Gatherer: (noun) A member of a society that lives by hunting and collecting wild food, rather than by farming.

Abroad: (adverb) In or to a foreign country.
Overall: (adverb) In general rather than in particular.
Severe: (adjective) Extremely bad.
Annual: (adj) Happening once every year, or relating to a period of one year.
Principally: (adv) Mainly.

Risk: (noun) The possibility of something bad happening.
Homesickness: (noun) A feeling of unhappiness caused by being away from home.
Formation: (noun) The development of something into a particular thing or shape.
Urbanisation: (noun) The process by which more people leave the countryside to live in cities.
Migration: (noun) When people go to another place to live or find work.
National Border: (noun) A line that separates two countries.
Drought: (noun) A long period when there is no rain and people do not have enough water.
Destination: (noun) The place where someone or something is going.
Possession: (noun) Something that you own or that you are carrying with you at a particular time.
Diet: (noun) The type of food that someone usually eats.

Remain: (verb) To continue to exist, especially after other things or people have gone.

Put up with: (phrasal verb) To accept an unpleasant situation or experience.
Bring about: (phrasal verb) To cause something to happen.
Run into: (phrasal verb) To experience something unexpectedly.
Turn out: (phrasal verb) To happen in a particular way or to have a particular result, especially an unexpected one.
Hang out with: (phrasal verb) To spend a lot of time with someone.
Pick up: (phrasal verb) If you pick up a language, you learn it.
Go through: (phrasal verb) To experience something, especially something unpleasant or difficult.
Wear out: (phrasal verb) To make someone very tired.

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