Taking everything into account (in general)	On the whole
To grow or develop succesfully	Flourish
To attack a place with continuous shooting or bombs	Bombard
A rude or offensive word	Swear word
Not having a strong taste or character or not showing any interest or energy	Bland
A right to sell a company's products in a particular area using the company's name	Franchise
A language used for communication between groups of people who speak different languages	Lingua franca
To annoy someone a lot	Gets on my nerves
Be denied or fail to get an opportunity	Miss out on
Land that was under the sea or was in a very poor condition, but has been improved so that it can be used for farming or building on	Reclaimed land
A land where buildings are not allowed	Green-belt land
A situation when a place contains too many people or things	Overcrowding
One of the equal parts that the ownership of a company is divided into, and that can be bought by members of the public	Shares
A place where there are only private houses, not offices and factories	Residential area
An area in or on the edge of a city, in which poor people live in small, very cheaply built houses	Shanty towns
Property that cost a very high price	Sky-high property prices
The spread of a city into the area surrounding it, oftenv without planning	Urban sprawl
The condition of being extremely dirty and unpleasant, often because of lack of money	Squalor
When there are houses available to be occupied by families	Availability of housing
The basic systems and services, such as transport and power supplies, that a country or organization uses in order to work effectively	Infrastructure
A tall modern building with many floors	High-rise buildings
Destroying a building because it is old	Demolition of old buildings
An area, especially in a town, where it is very dangerous to go, usually because a group of people who have weapons prevent the police.	No-go area
A very poor and crowded area esp. of a city	Slum
Too blocked or crowded and causing difficulties	Congestion
Clear enough to be understood	Inteligible
Not very often	Once in a blue moon
To speak to or behave towards someone as if they are stupid or not important	Patronize
To put pieces of wood in the window for protect it	Board up
To do things in the wrong order	Put the cart before the horse
The situation of being responsible for making difficult decisions that people, often employees, may not like	Hot seat
To move people from a dangerous place to somewhere safe	Evacuate
An operation or concerted efford to clean or tidy some large area or thing	Clean-up operation
A country in the central part of england	Derbyshire
A line of people, usually standing or in cars, waiting for something	To queue up
An angry disagreement between two or more people or groups	Quarrel
Synonym of fall asleep	Doze off
To prepare something official, especially in writing	Draw sth up
Very very new	Brand new
Synonym of trash	Rubbish
Not expensive	Affordable
A place where young children are cared for during the day while their parents do something else	Créche

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