True or false: If someone comes from a broken house, they grow up with just one parent because their parents have divorced or separated.
False - they come from a broken HOME
Complete the collocations with one word: he grew up in a very ______ community | ours was a ________ family | this is a very _______ organisation, where everyone knows everyone else.
close-knit
Complete the definition: A ___________ is someone in a poor country who works as a farmer and does not have much money or education.
peasant
Complete the collocations with one word: a __________ upbringing/life/background
sheltered
Complete the definition: If you have a _________, you forget things very easily.
memory like a sieve
Complete the sentence: She’s been avoiding me like the _______ since I asked her to help with painting the house.
plague
True or false: If you say two people or things are like milk and cheese, you mean that they are very different from each other.
False - they are like CHALK and cheese
Complete the definition: If you say that someone is as hard as _____, you mean they do not show emotions such as sympathy or kindness.
nails
True or false: If you say that something is as clear as mud, you mean that it is very difficult to understand.
True
Complete the sentence with the correct preposition: In her talk, she elaborated ____ the topic of Spanish literature.
on
Complete the definition: A _________ is the killing of a lot of people in a short space of time in a violent way.
massacre
True or false: An overstate is an exaggerated statement that describes something as being more important or serious than it really is.
False - it's an overstateMENT
Complete the sentence: The war ________ the first seeds of women’s liberation.
sowed
Complete the sentences with one word: more than 30 other people had been _______d by a similar urge | he was _________d by a desire for revenge | her feelings of guilt began to ________ her
consume
