A feeling of uneasiness or worry.
What is Anxiety?
A troubling, dangerous, or embarrassing situation; a dilemma.
What is Predicament?
To agree to have to have nothing to do with a person or a business.
What is Boycott?
To give citizenship of a country to a person of foreign birth.
What is Naturalization?
Same as Boycott is
a. refuse to attend
b. sell tickets for
c. plan and carry out
d. eliminate
What is a. Refuse to attend?
I was in a real _________________. I couldn’t get a better job because I couldn’t speak English well, but I didn’t have time to learn the language because of my job.
What is Predicament?
When I first went to work on the docks, I discovered that the dockworkers were engaged in some kind of _______________. They refused to handle cargo from certain ships.
What is Boycott?
I made a mistake and started to load cargo that I wasn’t supposed to move. That made several workers angry, but a big, ______________ dockworker came to my rescue.
What is Burly?
Big and strong; sturdy; husky.
What is Burly?
a. weak
b. large
c. vicious
d. kind
What is Weak?
Having to do with cities.
What is Urban?
Ideas spread to help or hinder a cause.
What is Propaganda?
Firm and determined; resolved.
What is Resolute?
It’s probably hard for you to imagine the ________________ we felt when we first arrived in the United States. We were nervous and excited, filled with hope, fear, joy, and grief.
What is Anxiety?
Same as Predicament is
a. moment
b. belief
c. person
d. problem
What is problem?
The condition of belonging to a certain country; a nation.
What is Nationality?
It was important to me that, in time, I could become a citizen of the United States. I began to study the requirements for _________________.
What is Naturalization?
A great number; a crowd.
What is Multitude?
This mistake was just the first of a ________________ of mistakes I made when I first arrived. Of the hundreds of mistakes I made, almost all were a result of not understanding English very well.
What is Multitude?
Opposite of Anxiety is
a. a feeling of anger
b. a feeling of despair
c. a feeling of calm
d. a feeling of nervousness
What is c. a feeling of calm?
As I look at the crowds and the factories, I sometimes miss my life on the farm in my homeland, but I’ve learned to love life in an ______________ setting.
What is Urban?
At work, I missed having people of my own ________________ around. I missed being able to communicate in the language of my homeland.
What is Nationality?
I also realized that I was a victim of ________________. Everything that I had read was designed to make people think that life in the U.S. would bring instant wealth
What is Propaganda?
Nevertheless, I remained ________________ in my will to learn English. I was also firm in my determination to speak as well as someone who was born here.
What is Resolute?
a. written word
b. opposite
c. slick information
d. witnesses
What is c. slick information?