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FCE Unit 4 vocab

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  • Far from other houses and shops. Can be difficult to reach. ´In the middle of nowhere´ or ´off the beaten track´.
    Remote
  • Large and impressive.
    Imposing
  • More and more
    Increasingly
  • The central part of city, can be used for poorer housing areas.
    Inner-city
  • Damaged on the surface.
    Defaced
  • Due to the melting ice caps, the ____ _______ is rising
    sea level
  • Safe and well protected.
    Secure
  • How polluted the air in a town or city is. The _____ ________ in Beijing is poor.
    Air quality
  • Problems
    Issues
  • When a city does not have enough houses for people to live.
    Housing crisis
  • Protected form the cold
    Insulated
  • Useful features of a building or place
    Amenities
  • The part of a business that has the job of selling items.
    Sales department
  • The lines drawn on the road
    Road markings
  • When there are too many people for what the space was designed for.
    Overcrowded
  • If you live in a town, you may go here to swim or play sports.
    Leisure complex
  • When you look around the shops but don´t plan on buying anything.
    Window shopping
  • Not real.
    Simulated
  • An antonym of straight. Usually used to describe roads or paths.
    Winding
  • Useful or close by.
    Handy
  • (Very) fast. Often describes transport or postal delivery.
    Express
  • Belonging to a family member who lived a long time ago
    Ancestral
  • People who help to design the layout of towns or cities.
    Town planners
  • Somewhere with good transport links to other areas (airports, bus routes, train station etc.)
    Well-connected
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