Vocabulary

• emerged as: To become known or apparent; to come forth as.
• behind closed doors: In private; secretly or confidentially.
• of old: From a long time ago; in the past.
• enormous: Huge; very big; very important
• majority: Amount that is more than half of a group
• gross: 144 of something; twelve dozen of something
• exaggerate: To makes things seem more extreme than reality
• force: Group of persons trained for military action; army
• distinct: Clearly different in nature from something else
• strain: To remove the water from (food) using a colander
• fear: Unpleasant feeling caused by being aware of danger
• represent: To depict art objects, figures, scenes; to portray
• separate: Being different from or unrelated to another
• exist: To be present, alive or real
• financial: Involving money
• divide: To split numbers by another number, e.g. 6 / 2 = 3
• political: Being active or interested in government matters
• occur: To come to pass or to happen
• draw: To attract attention to someone or something
• remain: To be left behind; to continue to exist
• emerge: To rise or appear out of some background
• primary: Most important, most basic or essential
• population: Number of people who live in a country, area etc.
• account: An advantage
• independent: Making your own decisions; acting by yourself
• identity: Collection of qualities that makes a person
• create: To make, cause, or bring into existence
• religious: Following the rules and beliefs of a faith
• boundary: A division or border to separate two areas
• dispute: To argue with someone about something
• minority: Group that is smaller and different from the rest
• vacuum: Space with absolutely no air in it
• flee: To leave somewhere urgently, to avoid danger
• retreat: Act of a force moving back from a winning enemy
• gain: To increase in something, such as weight
• leave: To go away from; depart
• sovereignty: The power a country has to decide for itself
• aftermath: The bad result/situation after an event
• violence: Strong physical force of nature
• count: To add things together to find the total number
• border: To be right next to another country or state
• century: Period of 100 years
• census: Survey to collect data about people in an area
• british: Concerning the culture and people of British
• division: How many times a number is contained in another
• referendum: Public vote on an issue
• sovereign: King, queen, emperor etc. of a country
• colonial: Of a system where one country controls another
• bore: To accept (responsibilities or duties)
• rape: To force someone to have sex against their will
• part: Division of a book
• area: Amount of measured space
• categorize: To distribute into classes or the same type
• think: To have an idea about something without certainty
• colonize: To take control over place and live there
• inaccurate: Not correct, accurate, or true
• anti: A prefix meaning 'against' or 'opposed'
• live: To be alive
• identification: (Card or paper) that proves who a person is
• bloody: Covered or spotted with blood on the surface
• muslim: Of or relating to Islam
• distrust: Feeling of having no faith in a person/thing
• partition: A wall, screen, etc. used to separate areas
• colonization: Act of taking control over a place
• caste: Social class, e.g. in Hinduism
• hindu: Of or relating to or supporting Hinduism