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Making Connections 3
Unit 4, Reading 3
| botanist | a scientist who studies plants |
| catalog | list things in a systematic and organized way |
| combat | try to stop particularly serious problem |
| consensus | a wide agreement; a generally accepted opinion |
| conservation | the protection of natural resources |
| debt | money owned by a person, business, or government |
| designate | choose something for a specific purpose |
| excessive | too much; more than is reasonable |
| extinction | the state of no longer existing |
| generate | to create; to produce |
| halt | stop |
| harvest | bring in a crop from the fields when it is ripe or ready |
| partnership | an agreement in which people, businesses, and organization work closely together |
| preserve | to stop something from being damaged or lost |
| properties | qualities of something |
| renewable | able to be used again or easily replaced |
| substitute | replace something with something else |
| susceptible | likely to be affected by something negative |
| tackle | to begin to solve a difficult and complex problem |
| unanimous | complete agreement |