| A | B |
| assimilate | make alike |
| culture | all the knowledge and values shared by a society |
| challenge | a call to engage in a contest or fight |
| difficulty | an effort that is inconvenient |
| depression | a sunken or lowered geological formation |
| escape | run away from confinement |
| famine | a severe shortage of food resulting in starvation and death |
| war | the waging of armed conflict against an enemy |
| racism | the prejudice that one people are superior to another |
| prejudice | a partiality preventing objective consideration of an issue |
| quota | a prescribed number |
| deport | expel from a country |
| transcontinental | spanning one of the large landmasses of the earth |
| mine | excavation from which ores and minerals are extracted |
| discrimination | unfair treatment of a person or group based on prejudice |
| discriminate | marked by the ability to see or make fine distinctions |
| drought | a shortage of rainfall |
| crop | a cultivated plant that is grown commercially |
| debt | the state of owing something, especially money |