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JH American History
Notgrass American History Unit 19-21
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Commercial | Able to yield or make a profit |
| Communism | A system of social organization in which all economic and social activity is controlled by a totalitarian state dominated by a single and self-perpetuating political party. |
| Delinquent | Failing in or neglectful of a duty or obligation |
| Divorcee | A judicial declaration dissolving a marriage. |
| Driftwood | Wood floating on a body of water or cast ashore by it. |
| Erode | To eat into or away; destroy by slow consumption or disintegration |
| Hospitable | Receiving or treating guests or strangers warmly and generously |
| Infirmary | A place for the care of the sick, or injured; hospital or facility serving as a hospital |
| Ingenious | Characterized by cleverness or originality of invention or construction |
| Insulation | Material that prevents or reduces the passage, transfer, or leakage of heat, electricity, or sound |
| Majestic | Characterized by or possessing majesty; of lofty dignity or imposing aspect; stately; grand |
| Maternity | Motherhood; care of women at childbirth and of their newborn infants. |
| Mechanical | Having to do with machinery. |
| Merge | To combine, blend, or unite gradually so as to blur the individuality or individual identity of. |
| Normalcy | The quality or condition of being normal, as the general economic, political, and social conditions of a nation; normality |
| Oblong | elongated, usually from the square or circular form. |
| Patron | A person who is a customer, client, or paying guest, especially a regular one, of a store, hotel, or the like |
| Remedy | Something that cures or relieves a disease or bodily disorder; a healing medicine, application, or treatment. |
| Sacred | Devoted or dedicated to a deity or to some religious purpose. |
| Sanitary | Of or relating to health or the conditions affecting health, especially with reference to cleanliness, precautions against disease, etc. |
| Seminary | a special school providing education in theology, religious history, etc., primarily to prepare students for the priesthood, ministry, or rabbinate. |
| Shrine | A building or other shelter, often of a stately or sumptuous character, enclosing the remains or relics of a saint or other holy person and forming an object of religious veneration and pilgrimage. |
| Spelunker | A person who explores caves, especially as a hobby. |
| Stamina | Strength of physical constitution; power to endure disease, fatigue, privation, etc. |
| Temperance | Moderation or self-restraint in action, statement, etc.; self-control. |
| Theory | Established, evidence-based explanations accounting for currently known facts or phenomena or for historically verified experience. |
| Tourism | The activity or practice of touring, especially for pleasure. |
| Vegetation | all the plants or plant life of a place, taken as a whole: |
| Vista | a view or prospect, especially one seen through a long, narrow avenue or passage, as between rows of trees or houses. |
| Vocational | Relation to or guidance in an occupation or profession chosen as a career or in the choice of a career: |
| Warehouse | A building, or a part of one, for the storage of goods, merchandise, etc. |
| Wholesome | Moral or general well-being; healthful. |
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