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ARAB UPRISING: TUNISIA PROTESTS STILL GO ON - BBC NEWS

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help

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  • noun
  • Something given to enable a person to do something
  • Assistance given to someone in need
  • Someone who makes something easier or possible
  • verb
  • To act to enable a person to do something; assist
  • To make something better or less difficult

think

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  • verb
  • To have an idea about something without certainty
  • To have an idea, opinion or belief about something

intact

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  • adjecitve
  • Being complete, without damaged or missing parts

spring

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  • noun
  • Coil of metal that lessens impact, e.g. on cars
  • Sudden jump from one place to another
  • The time when plants start growing after winter
  • Place where water flows from beneath the ground
  • verb
  • To lessen the impact of something under pressure
  • To jump into the air

call

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  • noun
  • A order or request for action
  • The sound an animal makes, often when in danger
  • A correct prediction, e.g. a decision in a game
  • A short visit to a place or person
  • A decision by a referee or umpire in a game
  • verb
  • To make a request or order for action
  • (Animal) to make sounds to warn of danger
  • To announce the date of an election
  • To make a judgment about something
  • To give someone or something a name
  • To guess in advance the result or outcome
  • To visit a place or person for a short time
  • To phone someone
  • To speak, announce or shout in a loud voice

leave

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  • noun
  • Permission to do something
  • Vacation time; time off work
  • verb
  • To go away from; depart
  • To gift property to someone after you die
  • To allow something to continue happening
  • To let something remain unused or available
  • To let something or someone remain somewhere

riot

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  • noun
  • Person, thing, or event that is extremely funny
  • When there is a lot of something, e.g. color
  • When a crowd tries to take control, using violence
  • verb
  • (Of a crowd) to protest and try to take control

where

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  • conjunction
  • At or in the place which
  • In whatever place
  • pronoun
  • Word you use to ask the location of something

national

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  • adjecitve
  • Concerning a nation as a whole
  • noun
  • A person of a particular country

out

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  • adverb
  • No longer stylish (e.g. fashion)
  • Away from home, business, or the usual place
  • In a direction/movement away from inside or center
  • noun
  • Act when a batter cannot continue playing
  • verb
  • To tell people a secret

share

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  • noun
  • Part-ownership in a property, business or company
  • Part of a company you own, shown by a certificate
  • verb
  • To divide something between two or more people
  • To allow others to use your things equally
  • To give information, etc. to someone

and

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  • conjunction
  • Used to refer to two or more things
  • Plus; in addition; on top of that
  • Used to introduce an action that follows another

ben

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  • noun
  • A mountain or tall hill

culture

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  • noun
  • Beliefs and customs of a particular group

hope

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  • noun
  • When you wish something will happen; what you wish
  • verb
  • To expect and want something to happen

moderate

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  • adjecitve
  • Being average in quantity or size
  • verb
  • To host a meeting or panel discussion
  • To make something less violent, severe, or strong
  • To come between people to help solve an argument
  • To reduce the severity, violence, or strength of

poor

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  • adjecitve
  • Inferior; below the normal standard
  • Deserving of pity or sympathy
  • Without money; not rich

military

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  • adjecitve
  • Concerning the army or navy
  • noun
  • Army or armed forces

police

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  • adjecitve
  • Concerning the police and its business
  • noun
  • People, often in uniforms, who solve crimes
  • verb
  • To control an area, or group with a police force

show

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  • noun
  • False display of love, emotion or action
  • An event for displaying or promoting goods
  • Play, opera or theater production
  • Presentation that is broadcast on TV or radio
  • verb
  • To be easily seen or displayed
  • To display your emotions or feelings
  • To let someone see something; display
  • To explain or teach how something is done
  • To lead someone somewhere; point them to something
  • To prove something to be true, correct
  • To reveal or allow something to be seen

all

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  • adverb
  • Completely; totally
  • determiner
  • Being every one of something
  • pronoun
  • 100% of something; the complete amount

everyone

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  • pronoun
  • Every person; everybody

election

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  • noun
  • Process of choosing someone by voting

its

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  • adjecitve
  • Referring to or belonging to ‘it’
  • determiner
  • Of something; belonging or related to something
  • other
  • Possessive form of “it”

old

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  • adjecitve
  • Having existed for a long time, not young or new
  • Age of a person since birth

work

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  • adjecitve
  • Activity completed in order to make money
  • noun
  • The product of some artistic or literary endeavor
  • Everything created by an author, artist, musician
  • Activity you do in order to make money
  • Place of employment
  • Final product or result of a some labor or effort
  • verb
  • To bring into a specific state of success
  • To be functioning properly, e.g. a car
  • To do your job in your company or workplace
  • To make an effort to do something
  • To operate a machine or device

worry

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  • Something that causes trouble or concern
  • verb
  • To cause concern or trouble over something

bring

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  • verb
  • To take or go with someone to a place

fake

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  • adjecitve
  • Not real; made to look like something real
  • noun
  • A copy of something made to trick people
  • verb
  • To make move in sports to trick a player
  • To try to trick or deceive someone

fear

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  • noun
  • Unpleasant feeling caused by being aware of danger
  • verb
  • To be afraid of or nervous about something

largely

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  • adverb
  • In large part; mainly or chiefly

tackle

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  • noun
  • Equipment used in fishing
  • Arrangement of ropes and wheels used for lifting
  • Attempt to force a person to the ground
  • verb
  • To start working on a difficult problem
  • To grab and throw a person to the ground

they

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  • pronoun
  • Two or more people, animals, or things

move

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  • noun
  • Act of moving a playing piece in chess, etc.
  • An action; doing something
  • Step taken to achieve a goal
  • verb
  • To cause someone to have certain emotions
  • To cause something to change to a different place
  • To change where people live or a business operates
  • To take action to do or achieve something

their

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  • determiner
  • Belonging to them

way

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  • adverb
  • Used to emphasize the amount of something
  • noun
  • Particular aspect of something being thought about
  • One of various choices that could be made
  • Particular existing condition or state
  • (Often long) distance or length of time
  • How something is done
  • Route to go to a place
  • Small street
  • Usual behavior, emotions or habits of someone

blame

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  • noun
  • Act of saying someone did something bad
  • verb
  • To say someone is responsible for something bad

just

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  • adjecitve
  • Proper or appropriate; as is deserved
  • Doing or being what is right or fair
  • Legally correct; having enough evidence
  • adverb
  • Almost; nearly
  • Exactly at the time of
  • Exactly (the same as, like)

islamic

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  • adjecitve
  • Concerning the culture and people of Islamic

nation

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  • noun
  • Area or region controlled by a government and army

job

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  • noun
  • Something that must be done
  • Regular work at which you earn money

ask

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  • verb
  • To say to someone that you want something

song

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  • noun
  • Distinctive series of sounds made by a bird
  • Music with words that are sung to it
  • Art or tradition of singing

well

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  • adjecitve
  • Being in a fortunate, good condition or state
  • Healthy and in good condition
  • adverb
  • In an acceptable, proper, or successful manner
  • In a complete, total, or full manner
  • A great and considerable degree
  • In a successful way, in a good or satisfactory way
  • exclamation
  • Used to begin or continue a particular statement
  • Used to show you want to start saying something
  • Used to express that you are waiting for a reply
  • You say this to change the topic of a conversation
  • Used to indicate you are making a final remark
  • noun
  • Long deep hole in the ground to get water
  • verb
  • To cause your eyes to fill with tears

mount

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  • noun
  • An attachment used to keep something in place
  • Title of a specific mountain
  • Horse that someone is riding
  • verb
  • To attach something to something else
  • To set a picture, jewel etc. in
  • To sit on a horse or bike in order to ride it
  • To climb a mountain
  • To organize an exhibition, race etc.
  • To start (an attack) against an enemy

those

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  • determiner
  • The people or things we are talking about
  • pronoun
  • The objects far from the speaker

tunis

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  • proper noun
  • The capital of Tunisia, a port on the Mediterranean coast of North Africa; population 745,000 (est.

disappointed

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  • adjecitve
  • Feeling you did not meet expectations
  • verb
  • To not meet the expectations of others or yourself

news

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  • noun
  • Broadcast on radio or TV about recent events
  • Information about recent events

street

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  • noun
  • Road in a city with buildings and places to walk

struggle

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  • noun
  • Strong efforts made to do something difficult
  • verb
  • To try very hard to do something difficult

french

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  • adjecitve
  • Concerning the culture and people of France
  • noun
  • Person's name

for

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  • preposition
  • Used to show the purpose, or need of something

could

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  • other
  • Past form of 'can' to mean have ability
  • Used to ask for something politely, or to offer

know

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  • verb
  • To be familiar with a person or place, thing
  • To feel sure or be convinced about something
  • To discover or be aware of something
  • To be able to distinguish
  • To have knowledge of things

willing

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  • adjecitve
  • Act of making a choice
  • verb
  • To leave property to someone after your death
  • To use mental effort to make something happen
  • To influence someone to do something
  • To make something happen by strongly wanting it

last

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  • adjecitve
  • Most recent; the latest
  • The one before
  • adverb
  • Final; with nothing following; after all others
  • Most recent; the latest
  • determiner
  • The one at the end
  • verb
  • To remain or continue for a certain period of time

have

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  • verb
  • To drink, smoke, eat or use something
  • To experience the effects of something
  • To organize an event, or join in an activity
  • To own, possess, or hold something
  • To cause to happen or produce a particular effect

suburb

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  • noun
  • Residential area on the outskirts of a city

campus

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  • other
  • Grounds of an institution, e.g. a university

radical

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  • adjecitve
  • Very new and different from what is traditional
  • Concerning something's most basic part or form
  • noun
  • Person who believes in extreme political change

group

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  • noun
  • Two or more musicians who play music together
  • Number of people or things gathered together
  • verb
  • To combine or collect objects or people together

film

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  • noun
  • Thin layer that covers something
  • Movie
  • verb
  • To record moving action with a camera

freedom

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  • noun
  • State of being free, not being controlled

amsterdam

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  • noun
  • An industrial center and the capital of the Netherlands

his

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  • pronoun
  • Something belonging to a male person

government

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  • noun
  • Group of people and system that rule a nation

with

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  • preposition
  • As an employee of a certain company
  • Against something or someone
  • By using something as a means
  • Due to; because of
  • Including
  • Possessing as a feature
  • Related to
  • (Of the manner/attitude by which you do something)
  • Used to express that people or things are together

oust

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  • verb
  • To eject from a position or place; force out

too

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  • adverb
  • In addition, also; with emphasis
  • Say that something is more than you want

lose

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  • verb
  • To be unable to keep in check or control something
  • To decrease in value or quantity (e.g. weight)
  • To stop having certain qualities or abilities
  • To stop having or being entitled to
  • To fail to win something that is being contested
  • To be unable to find something you once had
  • To be dependent on someone (used with 'not')

new

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  • adjecitve
  • Not old, recently born, built or made
  • Being or doing something for the first time
  • Not felt, seen or known previously
  • Having been recently bought or obtained

after

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  • adverb
  • Later than another time, or behind something
  • conjunction
  • Following something before
  • preposition
  • When an event happened or time has passed

itself

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  • pronoun
  • Referring to it

will

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  • noun
  • Desire or choice of someone
  • Document saying who gets your money when you die
  • Strong desire to do something; determination
  • Desire to do something; strong wish to do
  • other
  • Used with verbs to express the future
  • verb
  • To leave property to someone after your death
  • To use mental effort to make something happen
  • Am (is, are) likely to do
  • To influence someone to do something
  • To make something happen by strongly wanting it

attack

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  • noun
  • Act intended to hurt someone physically, mentally
  • verb
  • To try to destroy, beat, or injure

egypt

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  • noun
  • A republic in northeastern Africa known as the United Arab Republic until; site of an ancient civili

garbage

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  • noun
  • Waste material that has been thrown out

politician

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  • noun
  • Someone whose job is in politics

speak

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  • verb
  • To be able to use a certain language
  • To use words to tell information, express thoughts

afraid

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  • adjecitve
  • Worried that something bad will happen; scared

authority

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  • noun
  • The power to give orders to people
  • Person who is an expert on a particular topic
  • Expert knowledge on a given subject
  • The power to decide or approve things
  • a group of people who have the official power to make decisions

refuse

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  • noun
  • Garbage, waste
  • verb
  • To not accept, allow, or give something

scarce

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  • adjecitve
  • Not many; Not plentiful or abundant

get

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  • verb
  • To become affected by illness or disease
  • To begin to feel or understand an emotion or idea
  • To send or bring someone or something home, etc.
  • To go somewhere to obtain something
  • To (cause to) do a particular thing
  • To obtain, receive or be given something
  • To currently have
  • To prepare for use
  • To understand something being said or read

hard

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  • adjecitve
  • Difficult to do; difficult to understand
  • (Of facts) not able to be misunderstood; clear
  • (Of alcohol) strong
  • Involving or requiring lots of work, effort, care
  • Being full of pain, trouble, and problems
  • Strong
  • (Of edge) clear; sharp
  • Difficult to bend, break or cut; solid
  • adverb
  • With lots of force, power, or impact

president

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  • noun
  • Person in charge of a country, or organization

prison

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  • noun
  • Place the court puts criminals as punishment; jail

down

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  • adjecitve
  • Being sad, sick, or unhappy
  • Not operating, working, or functioning as expected
  • adverb
  • In a sitting or lying position
  • Towards or on the ground, floor, or bottom
  • Written or copied onto a piece of paper or book
  • noun
  • A period of play in American Football
  • The soft, smooth hairs that cover a bird's body
  • preposition
  • Along something's path, course, or direction
  • Going from a higher position to a lower position
  • verb
  • To eat or drink very quickly and without stopping

dialogue

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  • noun
  • Conversation between two or more individuals

each

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  • determiner
  • Every one of two or more things
  • pronoun
  • Per one person or thing

stay

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  • noun
  • Legal order to stop or delay an action
  • Strong rope or wire that supports a ship's mast
  • Period of time spent living in or visiting a place
  • verb
  • To keep trying without giving up
  • To remain in the same place and not move away
  • To spend time visiting a place or someone's home

great

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  • adjecitve
  • Very large in size
  • Very important
  • Very good; fantastic; wonderful
  • adverb
  • Very good; better than before
  • noun
  • Successful and well-admired person

mean

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  • adjecitve
  • Being good at
  • Nasty; unkind
  • Not liking to spend money; cheap; stingy
  • noun
  • Average of a set of numbers
  • verb
  • To express a particular idea or thought
  • To intend to do something in particular
  • To have a particular meaning or value

rapper

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  • noun
  • Singer who performs rap music

about

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  • adverb
  • To be ready to; going to
  • Nearly; approximately; roughly
  • Near; next to; close to
  • In every direction; in the area of
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  • Concerning or of (a topic)

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  • Using physical strength, power, or violence

like

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  • adjecitve
  • Being equal in status or kind to something else
  • Similar; the same
  • adverb
  • For example
  • preposition
  • Used as a filler; used to ad emphasis
  • In a way similar to the way something is done
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  • To want to
  • To find something pleasing; to prefer something

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  • Persons sharing culture, country, background, etc.
  • Men, Women, Children

what

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  • Thing or things that; the same kind as
  • Used to emphasize something you are about to say
  • adjecitve
  • Used to refer to a particular amount, or number
  • Used to place emphasis on a particular quality
  • adverb
  • To a certain degree
  • determiner
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  • The person or thing being talked about
  • Used to identify something both the speakers know
  • adverb
  • Used to reinforce adjectives and adverbs
  • To such a degree
  • conjunction
  • Used to connect a noun clause
  • Used to introduce an adverbial clause
  • Used to introduce a noun clause
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  • Referring an object far away
  • Used to refer to the relative pronoun ‘which’

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  • Different stages of the moon from new to full
  • Distinct part or step in a process
  • One stage of a process or series of stages
  • verb
  • To make happen in a gradual ordered way

secular

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  • Not connected or controlled by religious beliefs

pride

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  • Sense of your own importance and worth
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  • To be proud of something you did

towards

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  • In the direction of someone or something

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  • Citizen of an Arabic speaking nation

can

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  • A metal container for storing food
  • other
  • Able to; have the skill to; have the time to
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  • To have permission to
  • To be possible to do
  • To preserve food by sealing it in a metal container

regime

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  • A system of management; a form of government

not

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but

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desire

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  • Thing that is wished for or wanted
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  • To wish for, hope or want something

life

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  • All the living things e.g. animals, plants, humans
  • Period of time things live, from birth to death

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  • Speaking loudly so you get attention
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  • To speak very loudly to get attention

security

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  • Department in a company in charge of protection
  • Financial document, like stocks, bonds and notes
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  • Things done to protect people, buildings etc.
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  • Of a moving film, with sound
  • noun
  • Recording capturing action with sound
  • verb
  • To make a moving film of, with sound

become

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  • To begin to be; grow to be; develop into
  • To be suitable for a particular job or role

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  • (Of government) giving the people power, a vote
  • Having certain aspects of democracy

dream

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  • A wish or hope for something to happen
  • Imagination or image of something you want
  • Images, thoughts, feelings experienced when asleep
  • verb
  • To wish for something to happen
  • To experience thoughts, images while asleep

same

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  • Being equal in quality and amount
  • Identical; not different
  • Not changing; constant

you

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  • pronoun
  • Person someone is speaking or writing to
  • Person or people in general

year

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  • Unit of time equal to 12 months or 365 or 366 days
  • Used to refer to the age of a person

trash

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  • Garbage or anything that is worthless
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  • To throw away in the garbage
  • To criticize; claim person/thing is inferior

live

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  • Being broadcast as events happen, not recorded
  • Carrying electric current; able to give a shock
  • Glowing because burning; hot
  • Not yet killed (for food)
  • adverb
  • (Music, drama) as it is performed
  • verb
  • To be alive
  • To experience a particular type of life
  • To make your home in a house or town

also

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  • In addition; too; in a similar way

regard

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  • Admiration or respect for a person or thing
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  • To think about a person, thing in a particular way
  • To look at a person or thing in a particular way

constitution

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  • Statement of fundamental principles of a country
  • Condition of your health
  • Different parts that make something

answer

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  • Reply to a question someone asks
  • Solution to a problem or test question
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  • To reply to a question someone asks
  • To solve a test question or a problem

although

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  • Despite the fact that; however

university

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  • High-level educational institution; college

three

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  • number
  • Number 3

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  • Concerning region within a country
  • noun
  • Region within a country, with its own government
  • Situation or condition something is in
  • verb
  • To say; declare as fact

word

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  • noun
  • Unit of language that has a meaning
  • Promise
  • Short remark or piece of information
  • verb
  • To express something by choosing particular words

this

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  • Used to indicate something already been discussed
  • Used to indicate something happening around now
  • adverb
  • An indication by a physical motion or gesture
  • A specific amount of
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  • Person, thing, or idea near you
  • pronoun
  • Person, thing that has already been discussed

free

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  • Living, happening without being controlled
  • Costing no money
  • Not working; not busy
  • verb
  • To release (e.g. bird) from a cage or prison

betray

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  • To endanger (friend) by giving enemy information

the

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  • Used to refer to something already mentioned
  • Used to show there is only one of something
  • determiner
  • Used to describe all of a family

might

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  • Used to politely request an action
  • Used to express that something could happen
  • Power, strength, force or influence

lyric

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  • In a tone, or style similar to an emotional song
  • noun
  • The words of a song

let

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  • To allow someone to do something
  • Introducing a suggestion to do something together
  • To rent a house, etc. to others

than

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  • Used to compare two things that are not equal

turn

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  • Place where changing of direction happens
  • Your time or chance to perform a duty
  • Your chance to play or do in say a game
  • Unexpected change, as in the weather
  • verb
  • To become (a particular age)
  • To become a different quality, color, etc.
  • To change the direction of something, e.g. a car
  • To move in an opposite direction or position
  • To shape metal with a spinning tool

pull

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  • noun
  • Act of breathing in smoke, as from a pipe
  • Force something has that draws other things to it
  • Using your hands to move something to you
  • verb
  • To breathe in smoke, as from a pipe
  • To hold something and move it toward you
  • To remove something by force

power

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  • Legal or official right to perform certain actions
  • Ability to move forcefully and quickly
  • Energy of something (e.g. electricity or fuel)
  • Mathematical way to multiply a number
  • Condition of being in political control
  • Physical force, energy, and strength
  • verb
  • To give energy to something, e.g. by electricity
  • To move something forcefully and quickly

other

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  • A thing different from that mentioned
  • determiner
  • (Something) else; not the first (one)
  • pronoun
  • Being the one and only thing of that category

fair

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  • Neither very good nor very bad; average
  • (Of skin) light colored; not dark
  • Quite good; quite a lot
  • Treating all people the same way
  • (Of hair) light colored; blonde
  • (Of weather) sunny; not raining
  • noun
  • Event for companies to show their products
  • Event to sell things to help a charity

now

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  • At the present time or moment
  • Right away or in the next possible moment
  • Used to refer to something that just happened
  • Time between the present and a moment in the past
  • conjunction
  • Resulting from or because of something

leader

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  • Person who is in charge of a group or task
  • Person or group who is currently winning
  • Introduction to Video Content
  • The ongoing protests in Tunisia, known as the Arab Uprising, have gained international attention. One particular song, by rapper Hamzaoui, has gone viral in Tunisia, with everyone on university campuses knowing the lyrics. The song reflects the difficult living conditions in poor suburbs like Eriana, where jobs are scarce and people struggle to make ends meet. Despite the initial hopes and dreams of the revolution, many Tunisians feel disillusioned as the country has not seen the progress they had hoped for. While there is now more freedom to speak out, some rappers have faced imprisonment for insulting the authorities. However, Tunisians refuse to stay silent and continue to protest, demanding greater democracy. The old police state still has significant control, and new security concerns have emerged due to attacks by radical Salafist groups. Many protesters accuse the government, particularly Ennahda, the moderate Islamic Party, of betraying Tunisia. The government claims to be working towards democracy, but people have high expectations that have not been fully met. There is a fear that Tunisians may become so disillusioned with politicians that they turn to the military for security. Despite attempts by Ennahda to share power with secular parties, some have withdrawn from the national dialogue.
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  • It’s the song that’s gone viral in Tunisia, Khomeini.
  • Everyone knows the words on this university campus.
  • We live like trash in a garbage can, the lyric goes.
  • The rapper Hamzaoui filmed his video in Eriana, a poor suburb of Tunis.
  • Life is hard, jobs are scarce, but people help each other just to get by.
  • We dreamt about the revolution.
  • Well, I call it a fake dream.
  • I thought Tunis will be like Copenhagen or Amsterdam, but it remains the same.
  • There is more freedom now to speak out, although some rappers have gone to prison for insulting the authorities.
  • But after their revolution, Tunisians refuse to stay silent.
  • Three years on, the protesters are still out on the streets of Tunis, and so are the riot police, and they’re still shouting dégage.
  • In French, that means leave.
  • That’s what they shouted to President Ben Ali’s regime, and they’re shouting at the leaders now too, as the struggle for greater democracy goes on.
  • The old police state is still largely intact, and there are new security fears after attacks blamed on radical Salafist groups.
  • Ennahda has betrayed Tunisia, they shout, referring to the government dominated by the moderate Islamic Party.
  • Do you worry you’ve let people down?
  • People have high expectations.
  • We didn’t answer all those expectations, but we are working on bringing about democracy.
  • We’re on the last phase on moving towards free, fair elections and a democratic constitution.
  • What is your greatest fear now for Tunisia?
  • I’m afraid Tunisians will become so disappointed with their politicians that their desire for security will be greater than their hope in democracy, and so they might turn to the military and ask them for security.
  • Ennahda has shown itself willing to share power with secular parties.
  • Some just pulled out of a national dialogue.
  • But this isn’t Egypt, where the ruling Islamic Party was forcibly ousted.
  • Tunisia prides itself on its tolerant culture.
  • But if politicians don’t tackle these mounting worries, the nation regarded as the last hope for the Arab Spring could also lose its way.
  • Lise Doucette, BBC News, Tunis.