Social Injustice Terms

noun A place where large numbers of people, especially political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities, sometimes to provide forced labor or to await mass execution.

• During World War II, millions of people were imprisoned in concentration camps by the Nazi regime.
• I can't believe my great-grandfather survived a concentration camp during the war.
• That party was so crowded, it felt like a concentration camp in there.
• Being stuck in traffic for hours felt like being in a concentration camp.

verb to put to death, especially by hanging, by mob action and without legal authority

• The mob intended to lynch the accused before the authorities intervened.
• They were planning to lynch him for his actions.
• The group was ready to lynch him for crossing them.
• The negative comments online felt like a virtual lynch mob attacking her.