The key answer of exercise 1
The key to exercise solutions in chapter 3B - Dramatic licence for the textbook English File Advanced - Student's Book with authors Christina Latham-Koenig, Clive Oxenden, Jerry Lambert and Kate Chomacki from Oxford University Press
Question
Look at the quiz questions with a partner and work out the meaning of the highlighted words. Then circle the correct answer.
Answer
- executed /'eksɪkju:tɪd/ = killed, especially as a legal punishment; blow up /bləʊʌp/ = explode
- Civil War / sɪvl wɔ:/ = a war between groups of people in the same country
- Revolution /revə'lu:ʃn/ = an attempt by a large number of people in a country to change their government
- troops /tru:ps/ = soldiers in large groups
- captured /'kaptʃəd/ = caught a person and kept them as a prisoner or in a confined space; looted /lu:tɪd/ = stole things from shops or buildings after a riot, fire, etc.
- treaty /'tri:ti/ a formal agreement between two or more countries
- casualties /'kaʒuəlti:z/ = people who have been killed or injured in war
- overthrown /əʊʌə' θ rəʊn/ = removed a leader or a government from a position of power by force; coup /ku:/ = a sudden change of government that is illegal and often violent