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Vocab 20
Words and definitions
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Communism | A system of government where everything is owned by the government. |
| allegiance | faithfulness or loyalty |
| liberty | freedom |
| justice | fair and equal treatment |
| Altitude | Height above sea level |
| Elevation | Height above sea level |
| epidemic | A disease spreading widely and affecting many individuals at one time |
| linear | Items or data points that fall in or on a line. A graph of the relation between two quantities or terms that are linearly related is a straight line. |
| scattered | A distribution of items or data points in which individual items are scattered evenly or randomly over an area, instead of being clustered or dispersed linearly. |
| interpolation | To predict a value between known data points. The boundary lines for the groundwater pollutant plumes at the 1 ppb level are interpolated from the known well contaminant concentrations, some of which are lower than 1 ppb and some of which are higher |