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Benchmark U7 Vocab
Term | Definition |
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Advances | To make progress with something. |
Communities | Groups that live together or who have things in common. |
Expansion | Something is growing larger, or expanding. |
Devastating | Causing terrible pain or destruction. |
Impact | The effect of a person, event, or idea. |
Settle | To establish a place to stay. |
Grueling | A task that is extremely difficult and exhausting. |
Tycoon | Businesspeople who make a lot of money. |
Incentive | A reward or a reason to do something. |
Transcontinental | Stretching across a whole continent (a huge landmass). |
Isolated | Kept away from other people or things. |
Recruiting | Gathering or hiring people for a job. |
Set a Record | Doing something nobody has ever done before. |
Testifying | Telling what you know, usually under oath in a court of law. |
Roamed | To move or travel freely |
Plentiful | When there is more than enough of something |
Descendants | People's grandchildren and great grandchildren. |
Devastating | Terribly harmful. |