This document provides a list of vocabulary words that are appropriate to use in essays, along with synonyms. The words are grouped into categories such as emotions, actions, viewpoints, and descriptions. Some of the key words included are empathy, problem, beliefs, refugee, attack, understand, allow, good, important, asylum seeker, and footage. The purpose is to help writers choose effective vocabulary when crafting essays.

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Vocabulary
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Empathy
Sympathy
Problem
Viewer
Fear
Beliefs
Refugee
People
Group
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Understanding
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Compassion
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Predicament
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Audience,
responder
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Terror
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Ideology
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Displaced
person
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Civilians
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Series
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Attack
Dislike
Cries
Against
Leave
Builds
Teaches
Understand
Help
Allow
Talks
Makes
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Persecute,
Persecution
Hate,
hatred
Weeps
Opposed,
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Escape,
flee
Strengthens
Educates,…
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Acknowledge,…?
Assist,
assistance?
Permit,…?
Creates,
evokes,
evocation

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Good
Strong
Bad
Important
Horrible
Mean
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Effective
Powerful
Shocking,
catastrophic
Vital,
essential
Brutal
Hostile
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Effectively
Powerfully
Accordingly
Consequentially
Dramatically
Asylum
Seeker
African
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Libyan
Food
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Rations
Director
Narrator
Footage
Archival