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The ... windows of the house seemed to indicate that it had been derelict for a long time.
boarded-up
downtown
semi-detached
bustling
Jackie lives on the fourth floor of a... in London's West End.
bungalow
detached house
terraced house
block of flats
The mayor’s ... is an imposing two-storey house set on a hill above the town.
residence
bungalow
allotment
sky-scraper
People put th e ir rubbish bins out into the narrow ... which runs behind the row of houses.
dead-end
alley
ring road
by-pass
The inhabitants were forced to... their homeland because of the civil war.
flee
condemn
integrate
uproot
The Greek islands experience ... of tourists every summer and this year is no different with more than one million visitors expected.
an underpass
an incidence
a build-up
an influx
The majority of Mumbai’s population live in overcrowded, congested... in conditions of extreme poverty.
grounds
quotas
council housing
slums
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 condemned
an infectious
a residential
You will find the stockbrokers’ offices in the city’s central ... district.
rural
business
provincial
industrial
They say that even the police hesitate before entering some of the city’s most lawless...
ghettoes
crowds
allotments
suburbs
In most British cities, the council ... cheap accommodation for families on low-incomes.
resides
provides
degrades
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 by-pass
a flyover
an underpass
an estate
... areas tend to have high crime rates, unemployment and a host of other social problems.
Inner-city
Retirement
Residential
Condemned
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
equality
hostility
degradation
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
park-and-ride
traffic calming
car-pooling
