Commonly misused: casualties and victims

Dopolni manjkajoče mesto z ustrezno besedo: casualties, victims. Potem preberi spodnja pravila in preveri rešitve. / Fill in the gaps with a suitable word: casualties / victims.


copy-of-casualty-21 There was a massive earthquake in New Zealand on Sunday, but fortunately there weren’t many _______________.

2 Most _______________ of domestic violence choose to hide their suffering from the rest.

3 »I’m a grenade and at some point I’m going to blow up and I would like to minimize the _______________, okay?« (From The Fault In Our Stars by John Green)

4 Are today’s teenagers _______________ of technology?

5 The kindnapper is willing to release his _______________ in exchange for one million pounds.

6 There have never been as many _______________ of identity theft as there are today.

7 World War II left 60 million _______________,  which was about 3% of the 1940 world population.

 

A casualty is a person injured or killed in a serious accident or war. (slov. žrtev vojne, nesreče)

A victim is someone who has been hurt, damaged, or killed or has suffered, either because of the actions of someone or something else, or because of illness or chance. (slov. žrtev dejanj drugih, žrtev okoliščin ali žrtev bolezni)

 

Rešitve naloge (Answer Key)