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Terry Vocab
word and definitions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| domestic | anything at home |
| apparent | it's obvious, you can tell |
| plural | more than one |
| amendment | changes to the Constitution |
| bio- | life |
| tolerant | to put up with |
| nocturnal | awake at night |
| soliciting | selling |
| minor | small or person under 18 |
| arson | crime of setting fires |
| coniferous | a tree that makes cones |
| evacuate | to leave |
| -ist | a person |
| recipient | person that receives |
| agriculture | farming |
| population | #of people |
| longitude | vertical lines on the earth |
| vital | important, necessary |
| predator | an animal that hunts other animals |
| perimeter | the distance around |
| treacherous | dangerous |
| resident | anyone who lives there |
| gallantly | bravely |
| import | to bring goods into a country |
| personification | to make something not a person seem to have person qualities |
| loitering | hanging around |
| denominator | bottom part of a fraction |
| minority | a small group of people |
| donor | someone who donates |
| latitude | lines that run around the globe horizontally |
| severe | serious |
| expired | out of date |
| welfare | a person's well-being |
| European | from Europe |
| Indentured Servant | person that works for 5-7 years in exchange for passage to the New World |
| prosperity | having wealth or success |
| nuisance | a bother |
| timid | shy |
| depart | to leave |
| hyperbole | exaggeration |
| hemisphere | half of a sphere |
| optional | not required |
| inferior | poor quality |
| -ology | the study of |
| dispute | an argument |
| ramparts | walls to hide behind |
| tedious | long and boring |
| advocate | someone that speaks out for others |
| nomad | person that travels and has no permanent home |
| significant | important |
| posterity | future generations |
| export | send goods out of the country to sell |
| petty | small, of little importance |
| adjacent | next to |
| superior | the best |
| dormant | not active, sleeping |
| gruesome | gory |
| inaugeration | to place a person in office, a ceremony |
| deciduous | kind of tree that loses its leaves each year |
| fiction | not true |
| tundra | cold, arctic land with no trees |
| prominent | famous, well known |
| numerator | the top part of a fraction |
| geo- | earth |
| peril | danger |
| oasis | place in the desert with water and plants |
| democracy | government that votes |
| coarse | rough, not smooth |
| poverty | condition of being poor |
| major | big |
| terrace | flat, level area built on a hill |
| mutiny | to rebel |
Created by:
mleepeak
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