Wednesday, March 18, 2009

The Warsaw ghetto

ghetto /ˈgɛtoʊ/ : a section of a city, esp. a thickly populated slum area, inhabited predominantly by members of an ethnic or other minority group, often as a result of social or economic restrictions, pressures, or hardships
  • She had started to live in ghetto conditions.

uprising /ˈʌpˌraɪzɪŋ, ʌpˈraɪzɪŋ/ : an act of opposition, sometimes using violence, by many people in one area of a country against those who are in power

  • After the news of the political uprising , millions of people left the country.

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