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fit in with
Sub-topic: Individual.
Be socially compatible with other members of a group.
(Children may have to suppress their natural behaviours and tendencies to conform and ................., which can cause undue distress.)
break away
Sub-topic: Individual.
Escape from the control of a person, group, or practice.
(Girls had to ................ from the bonds of home and family to be free to do what they wanted.)
opt out (of)
Sub-topic: Individual.
Choose not to participate in something.
(Moreover, schools and hospitals were encouraged to ..................... local authority control, compete with one another, and manage their own budgets.)
blend in (with)
Sub-topic: Individual.
If someone or something blends in, they are similar to the other people, objects, buildings etc around them, and so they seem appropriate or you do not notice them.
(Being with the older kids helped me to .................. and pick up attributes of normal behaviour that might somehow hide my eccentricities.)
aasimilate into
Sub-topic: Individual.
Become or cause to become part of a different group or country.
(New migrants may feed that by changing to ..................... their new community, they are losing some part of their individuality)
self-distructive
Sub-topic: Individual.
Destroying or causing serious harm to oneself.
(It's important to determine if ................ behavior is part of a mental health disorder.)
chauffeur (n)
Sub-topic: Individual.
Someone whose job is to drive a car for a rich or important person.
(At a tender age he had become a .............. to a wealthy woman and was in charge of a fleet of limousines, Mercedes Benz cars and Alfa Romeos.)
stereotypical (a)
Sub-topic: Community.
With the qualities that people usually expect of a particular type of person or thing, although this idea may be wrong.
(She believes many girls are getting poor careers advice, which restricts them to .................... female jobs.)
tolerant attitude
Sub-topic: Community.
Refer to the attitude when you accept other people's opinions and preferences, even when they live in a way that you don't agree with.
(The generation of the 1960s managed to acquire a more ................... by the communists. )
cultural status
Sub-topic: Community.
Refers to a person social placement within a culture or society.
(Standard varieties may be developed and codified at one or more locations in a continuum, a process known as ausbau, until they have independent .................., or autonomy.)
anti-social activity
Sub-topic: Community.
Actions that harm or lack consideration for the well-being of others.
(Unsupervised juveniles engaging in ......................... has been an ongoing problem for the shires of Irwin and Mullewa.)
flaunt (v)
Sub-topic: Community.
Show or make obvious something you are proud of in order to get admiration.
(Rarely does a performer with such negligible talent ............... his insignificance with such wanton panache.)
mainstream society
Sub-topic: Community.
The prevalent current thought, norms, .... that is widespread.
(Strong bonding networks could hinder upward mobility in the ..................., especially if the individual belongs to an ethnic minority group.)
behavioral patterns
Sub-topic: Community.
A complex arrangement of two or more responses that occur in a prescribed order.
(Many desirable .......................... start to emerge as a part of the child's normal development.)
demographic (a)
Sub-topic: Community.
Relating to demography (= the study of populations and the different groups that make them up).
(Unlike in the post-industrial world, social organization changed as a direct result of ..................... growth.)
segment (n)
Sub-topic: Community.
One of the smaller groups or amounts that a larger group or amount can be divided into.
(It is critically important to market to this growing .................... of the population with a diverse and dynamic selection of alcohol-free beverages.)
skewed (a)
Sub-topic: Community.
Not accurate or exact.
(European understanding of our society, and of their own, is .............. by male-centered cultural biases.)
conform (v)
Sub-topic: Community.
Behave according to the usual standards of behaviour that are expected by a group or society.
(Socialization involves mastering table manners and politeness, but it also concerns learning how to ................... to the world's most terrible ways.)
social custom
Sub-topic: Community.
A commonly accepted manner of behaving or doing something in a particular society, place or time.
(These people follow a strict, rigid code of ..................... and behavior, and judge the people who do not follow the rules.)
multicultural society
Sub-topic: Community.
Consisting of or relating to people of many different nationalities and cultures.
(A .................... should be inclusive rather than divisive and this is something we all need to work at.)
induction programme
Sub-topic: Community.
The process used within many businesses to welcome new employees to the company and prepare them for their new role.
(The Organization will also continue to ensure that staff members assigned to field duty stations are properly prepared through a comprehensive ................. prior to their taking up their new appointments.)
dominant group
Sub-topic: Community.
The group that controls the major elements of a society's norms and values.
(A political system designed to ensure that the ................... is and remains a voting majority.)
minority group
Sub-topic: Community.
Group that coexists with but is subordinate to a more dominant group.
(Strong bonding networks could hinder upward mobility in the mainstream society, especially if the individual belongs to an ethnic ......................)
censor (n) (v)
Sub-topic: Community.
A person responsible for examining books, films, works of art, or communications, and deciding whether to prevent parts or the whole of them from being seen or made available to the public because they are considered to be offensive or harmful, or because they contain information that someone wishes to keep secret, often for political reasons.
(We should not strive for a state where we ............... our business contacts and limit them only to a closed clique)
coarsen (v)
Sub-topic: Community.
Become rough or cause something to become rough.
(Freedom of speech, that noblest of abstractions, can easily ................... and shrink into freedom of snort.)
censure (n)
Sub-topic: Community.
Strong criticism or disapproval.
(The law holds that such blame and ................... are only appropriate if the offender was morally responsible for his behaviour.)
sensor (n)
Sub-topic: Community.
A device that is used to record that something is present or that there are changes in something.
(Most modern sensors are electronic and work on the principle that temperature, pressure or stress affects the electrical behaviour of the ................)