Winnie Mandela dies
South African anti-apartheid campaigner Winnie Mandela has died aged 81.
Language challenge
The prominent anti-apartheid campaigner Winnie Mandela has died at the age of 81. Which of these options does NOT mean ‘prominent’?
a) noticeable
b) sticking out from a surface
c) important
d) none of the above
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The story
President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa has led tributes to the prominent anti-apartheid campaigner Winnie Mandela, who has died at the age of 81. Winnie Mandela became an international symbol of the fight against white-minority rule when her husband Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Key words and phrases
valiantly
bravely or boldly
loathed
hated
tainted
spoiled or corrupted in some way
To do
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