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Personal dictionary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Barren | A wide usually level tract with stunted or scrub trees |
| Aborigine | An indigenous inhabitant especially as cotrasted with colonizing people |
| Alleviate | Relieve; reduce |
| Canopy | The uppermost spreeding branchy layer of a forest |
| Detonated | To explode |
| Confrontation | Face to face meeting between opposing sides |
| ferocity | fierceness;extreme intensity |
| Foliage | Mass of leaves of a plant |
| frail | Morally weak |
| Heedless | not understanding |
| Goaded | Pushed or driven |
| Imposing | Impressive because of size, bearing,dignity, and grandeur |
| Immigrant | a person who goes to a country to become a permant resident |
| Imminemt | About to happen |
| 15.Lingered | To continue to stay; delay leaving |
| Mistrust | To lack confidence |
| Megalopoiis | A very large city |
| Mariner | One who navigates or assists in navigating a ship |
| Portly | Stout or overweight |
| Personification | The act of personifying an object |
| Presentable | capable of being present |
| perturbed | Troubled |
| Quiver | To shake with a slight, rapid movement |
| Revert | To return to former condition |
| Sheepishly | with a bashful or embrassed look |
| Synchronize | To happen at the same time |
| Susurrus | Rustling sound |
| Spherical | To have the 3-D shape of a circle |
| Translucent | light passing through |
| 30.Simultaneously | at the same time |
| Unison | harmony or agreement, as one voice |
| Nazi | member of hitler's political party |
| Holocaust | total destruction |
| Anti-semitism | hatred and persecution of the jews |
| Evolution | A change in species over time |
| Darwin | The naturalist who proposed the theory of evolution by natural selection |
| Lamarck | The scientist who proposed the Theory of Acquired Characteristics |
| Population | All of the individuals of a species living in the same area |
| Species | A group of organisms that share similar traits and can reproduce fertile offspring |
| Competition | A struggle between individuals and species for resources such as food, living space, mates, and other resources |
| Adaptation | Any variation that makes an organism better suited to its environment |
| Variation | An inherited trait that makes an individual different from other member of its species |
| Natural Selection | The mechanism of evolution where organisms with the traits best suited to the in environment survive and reproduce |
| Mutation | Permanent changes in an organism's genes |
| 45.Navajo Code Talkers | Indian marines who sent messages for U.S. forces in their own language |
| Internment Camp | Prison-like camps in isolated areas used to house Japanese-Americans during the war |
| Nisei | Children born in the U.S. to Japanese immigrant parents |
| Kamikaze | Japanese suicide pilots |
| Rationing | Government decides allowances of food and other vital goods |
| Resistance Movement | In every country occupied by Nazi Germany there were people who fought back |
| Sabotage | Destruction of property by enemy agents during a war |
| Swastike | Bent cross symbol associated with Nazi Germany |
| Monopoly | When one company controls an entire industry |
| Philanthropist | Someone who gives gifts of to benefit the community |
| Iron curtain | Invisible dividing line between Democrtic Western Europe and Communist Eastern Europe |
| Warsaw Pact | Alliance between the Soviet Union and the Communist Governments of Eastern Europe |
| Democratic | Policy that allows the citizens to be free |
| Comunist | Policy where a dictator has power over everything |
| Escalate | Step up |
| 60.Dove | people who believe the Vietnam War could not be won |
| Hawk | People who support the Vietnam War |
| Vietnamization | A policy where we withdraw from the Vietnam War but South Vietnam keeps on fighting |
| Agent Orange | destroies crops and vegitation where the enemy may be hiding |
| Conscientious Objecter | People who did not join the Vietnam War |
| Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | A statement that means Congress aproves to take all necessary measures to repel all attacks |
| Censure | Condemn |
| Beatnik | people who believe inrebelling againest society |
| Materialism | Concern with only physical changes |
| Ghetto | A poor run down neighborhood |
| Affluence | The state of having wealth |
| Sudversion | Attempt to over throw a government secretly |
| Airlift | cargo planes deliever tons of supplies |
| Homologous Structures | Body parts of similar origin and structure but found in different organisms |
| geographic isolation | when a new species develops from a population that is separated bya mountain or an ocean |
| vestigial structure | body parts that have no apparent function |
| radioactive dating | using the amount of radioactive element to determine the age of a fossil |
| embryology | the study of developing organisms as evidence for evolution |
| relative dating | using rock layers to determine the age of fossils |
| gene pool | all of the genes in a population that are available for reproduction |
| fossils | the remains of prehistoric organisms found in stone |
| the fossil record | evidence of living organisms found in layers of sedimentary rock |
| evidence | evidence for evolution found in by comparing the genes of two different organisms |
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