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Detached (adj)

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A detached house is not connected to any other building

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Semi-detached (adj)

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A house that is semi-detached is one that id joined to another similar house on only one side

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Shed

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A small building, usually made of wood, used for storing things

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Terraced (adj)

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Built as or belonging to row of often small houses joined together along their side walls

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Chalet

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A small wooden house found un mountain areas, especially in Switzerland, or a house built in a similar style, especially one used by people on holiday

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Cabin

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A small, simple house made of wood

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Block of flats

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A large building that is divided into apartments

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Stately home

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A large, impressive house of historical interest, especially one that the public may visit

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Condo
Condominium

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An apartment building or group of houses in which each flat/house is owned by the person living in it, but the shared areas are owned by everyone together

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Cottage

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A small house in the country

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Log

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Built with horizontal logs interlocked at the corners bu notching- log cabin generally refers to a smaller, mores rustic log house

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Row houses

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A house in a city that is joined to others mile it on either side

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Farmhouse

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The main house on a farm where the farmer lives

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Duplex

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A set of rooms for living in that are two floors of a building

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Starter home

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A small house or flat that is suitable for people who are buying their first home

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Hamlet

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Very small villa- aldea

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Underground house

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Below the surface of the earth, below ground.

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Tents

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A shelter made of a large sheet of canvas, nylon,etc. that is supported by poles and ropes fixed to the ground, and is used especially for camping

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Houseboats

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A boat that people can believe in, usually kept at a particular place on a river or canal

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Shanties

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A small house, built of pieces of wood, metal and cardboard, where very poor people live, especially on the edge of a big city

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Huts

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A small simple house made of grass mud lr logs

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Shack( houses of poor people)

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People made them with carton, boxes, plastic bags, plastics bottles,etc

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Dormitory

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A building with many bedrooms in a school where students live

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Villa

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A large and luxurious house where you spend your holiday

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Facade

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The front of a building, especially a large and the important one

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Eaves

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The lower edges of a roof that stick out over the walls

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Gable

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The upper part of the end wall of a building, between the two sloping sides of the roof, that is like a triangle in shape

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Path

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A way or track that is built or is made by the action of people walking

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Letter box or mail slot

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A narrow opening in a door or wall through which mail is delivered

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Knocker

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A metal object attached to the outsides of the door of a house that you hit against the door to attract attention

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Tile

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A piece of baked clay that is used in rows for covering roofs

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Gutter

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A long curved channel made of metal or plastic that is fixed under the edge of a roof to carry away the water when it rains

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Conservatory

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A room or a building with glass walls and a glass roof. Conservatories are used to sitting in to enjoy the sun, and the project plants from Cold weather

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Flower bed

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A piece of ground in a garden or park where flowers are grown

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Drain

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To make something empty or dry by removing the liquid from it; become empty or dry in this way

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Drainpipe

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A pipe that carries rainwater from the roof of a building to a drain

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Skylight

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A small window on a roof

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Bay Window

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A large window, usually with glass on three sides, that sticks out from the outside wall of a house

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Sash Window

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A window that consists of two separate parts; one above the other that you open by sliding one of the parts up or down

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French Window

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A glass door, usually one of a pair that leads to a garden or balcony

41
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Dormer Window

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A vertical window that sticks out of a room that is built into a sloping roof

42
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Casement

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A window that opens on hinges like a door

43
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Sliding glass door

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A door that slides across an opening rather than a moving away from it

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Windowpane

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A piece of glass in a window

45
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Shutters

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One of a pair of wooden or metal covers that can be closed over the outside of a window to keep out light or protect the windows from damage

46
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Venetian Blind slat

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A blind for a window that has flat plastic or metal pieces going across it that you can turn to let in as much light as you want

47
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Roller blind/ Roller

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A roll of cloth that is fixed at the top of a window and can be pulled up and down to cover the window

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Tatched

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A thatched roof is made from straw or reeds

49
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Double glazed

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To use windows that have two layers of glass; in order to keep a building warm or to reduce noise from outside

50
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Wattle

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Sticks woven together as a material for making febces, walls, etc

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Shantytown

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An area in or near a town where poor people live in shanties

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Outskirts

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The areas that form the edge of a town or city

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Ghetto

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A poor part of a city where many people of the same race or background live

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Ritzy area

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Rich area, a very large town

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Country/ Countryside

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Districts where there are fields, moors etc as opposed to towns and areas with many buildings

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Suburbs

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The outer area of the town, rather than the shopping and business center in the middle

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Cardboard city

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An area of a city where people who have nowhere to live sleep outside, protected only by cardboard boxes

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Cluttered (adj)

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Untidy, not organized, and covered with a lot of things

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Homely

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Plain or ordinary, but pleasant

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Plain( adj)

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Not decorated in any way; with nothing added

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Poky also pokey (adj)

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A poky room, house, or other place is unpleasantly small and uncomfortable

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Sloping

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Lying at an angle to the horizontal so that some points on it are higher than others: sloping handwriting/shoulders

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Spare

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Plain and not decorated

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Curb appeal

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The qualities of a building that make it attractive, for example, to a buyer when it is seen from the street

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Garden City

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A city that has been specifically designed to have a lot of open spaces, parks and trees

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Storey

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A level of a building, a floor

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Pitched

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Sloping; not flat

68
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Washing-up liquid

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A thick liquid detergent added to hot water when washing pans, knives and forks,etc

69
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Worktop/ Surface

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A flat surface in a kitchen, especially on top of low furniture, on which food can be prepared

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