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The ... windows of the house seemed to indicate that it had been derelict for a long time.
semi-detached
boarded-up
downtown
bustling
Jackie lives on the fourth floor of a... in London's West End.
detached house
block of flats
bungalow
terraced house
The mayor’s ... is an imposing two-storey house set on a hill above the town.
allotment
residence
bungalow
sky-scraper
People put th e ir rubbish bins out into the narrow ... which runs behind the row of houses.
by-pass
ring road
alley
dead-end
The inhabitants were forced to... their homeland because of the civil war.
flee
uproot
condemn
integrate
The Greek islands experience ... of tourists every summer and this year is no different with more than one million visitors expected.
a build-up
an underpass
an influx
an incidence
The majority of Mumbai’s population live in overcrowded, congested... in conditions of extreme poverty.
quotas
council housing
slums
grounds
The town plays host to ... market every Saturday morning, with farmers from the surrounding countryside bringing their produce to be sold in town.
a bustling
a residential
an infectious
a condemned
You will find the stockbrokers’ offices in the city’s central ... district.
industrial
rural
provincial
business
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.
degrades
equalises
provides
resides
Locally elected representatives to the city council ... in the future development of our urban areas.
play a pivotal role
are left out of the main stream
seek asylum
lead to bottlenecks
The council voted to build ..., so that traffic can go around instead of through the middle of the town.
a flyover
an underpass
an estate
a by-pass
... areas tend to have high crime rates, unemployment and a host of other social problems.
Condemned
Inner-city
Retirement
Residential
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.
inadequacy
hostility
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.
car-pooling
traffic calming
park-and-ride
retail
