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paired stories, first series
10: sweatshop struggles
b: Sagar Chowdhury
vocabulary quiz
key to this exercise
"Sagar Chowdhury" (story)
INSTRUCTIONS: Put the correct number in the empty box beside each word.

abundant
autopsy
collide
commitment
deadline
director
dozen
extinguish
freight
industry
mention
protest
relative
reply
rush
slave
spray
stain
steep
trample
1 person who controls a business or institution
2 unwanted mark caused by liquid (on clothes or wall for example)
3 move quickly from one place to another because you don't have much time
4 hurt someone by stepping on them; damage something by stepping on it
5 a thing or person that is moving accidentally hits something or someone
6 something you have promised to do
7 time by which a job has to be finished
8 what is carried from one place to another by a train, plane, or ship
9 answer; what you say to someone after they have said something to you
10 very small drops of a liquid moving through the air
11 group of people complaining publicly and loudly
12 going up at a "sharp" angle (a hill or staircase, for example)
13( examination of a dead body to find out the cause of death
14 making things (in factories etc.) and selling them
15 stop, destroy, bring to an end, 'put out' (a fire, for example)
16 say something about something, refer to it
17 numerous, common, in good supply
18 twelve of something
19 person in your family
20 a person who belongs to another person and is forced to work for no pay