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The ... windows of the house seemed to indicate that it had been derelict for a long time.
semi-detached
downtown
bustling
boarded-up
Jackie lives on the fourth floor of a... in London's West End.
terraced house
bungalow
block of flats
detached house
The mayor’s ... is an imposing two-storey house set on a hill above the town.
residence
allotment
bungalow
sky-scraper
People put th e ir rubbish bins out into the narrow ... which runs behind the row of houses.
by-pass
alley
dead-end
ring road
The inhabitants were forced to... their homeland because of the civil war.
flee
condemn
uproot
integrate
The Greek islands experience ... of tourists every summer and this year is no different with more than one million visitors expected.
an underpass
an influx
an incidence
a build-up
The majority of Mumbai’s population live in overcrowded, congested... in conditions of extreme poverty.
council housing
slums
grounds
quotas
The town plays host to ... market every Saturday morning, with farmers from the surrounding countryside bringing their produce to be sold in town.
an infectious
a condemned
a bustling
a residential
You will find the stockbrokers’ offices in the city’s central ... district.
business
rural
industrial
provincial
They say that even the police hesitate before entering some of the city’s most lawless...
allotments
crowds
suburbs
ghettoes
In most British cities, the council ... cheap accommodation for families on low-incomes.
resides
degrades
provides
equalises
Locally elected representatives to the city council ... in the future development of our urban areas.
seek asylum
lead to bottlenecks
are left out of the main stream
play a pivotal role
The council voted to build ..., so that traffic can go around instead of through the middle of the town.
a flyover
an underpass
a by-pass
an estate
... areas tend to have high crime rates, unemployment and a host of other social problems.
Condemned
Inner-city
Residential
Retirement
On his first day in the Milanese office, the German executive experienced ... on the part of the employees in the office, who saw him as a threat.
hostility
inadequacy
degradation
equality
I use a ... scheme to get to work every day - on Mondays and Wednesdays, I take two of my colleagues to work and on the other days, they drive me.
retail
car-pooling
traffic calming
park-and-ride
