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Question 1

The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree

Answer 1

a phrase that is typically said in connection with children who show qualities or talents that are similar to those of their parents.

Question 2

aspirational

Answer 2

It had an aspirational quality that you don’t find elsewhere.
1 having a strong desire to have or achieve something
aspirational young women
2 something that is aspirational is wanted by people because they connect it with wealth or success
The advertisements had an aspirational look, using silk and pearls.

Question 3

shebeen

Answer 3

The most common were the spaza shops and the shebeens.

a place where alcoholic drinks are sold illegally – used especially in Ireland

Question 4

minute

Answer 4

Everybidy in the township bought things in minute quantities because nobody had any money.

Question 5

speakeasy

Answer 5

They’s put chairs in their backyard and hand out an awning and run a speakeasy.
a place in the US in the 1920s and 1930s where you could buy alcohol illegally

Question 6

shanty

Answer 6

You’d first build a shanty on your plot, a makeshift structure of polywood and corrugated iron
1 a small, roughly built hut made from thin sheets of wood, tin, plastic etc that very poor people live in
Workers were living in tents and shanties.

Question 7

makeshift

Answer 7

made to be used for a short time only when nothing better is available
The refugees slept in makeshift tents at the side of the road.