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Vocab 9 Gold Rush
Vocabulary Unit 9- Gold Rush
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| to gather or collect | accumulate |
| a strong desire or drive | ambition |
| not producing or creating anything; having no vegetation | barren |
| to deliver and leaven an item, often for safekeeping | deposit |
| having an urgent need or desire | desperate |
| to live somewhere, stay on one thing | dwell |
| an organized money system | economy |
| to say that something is more than it really is; to overstate | exaggerate |
| a wide-open space | expanse |
| to profit for selfishly; to abuse | exploit |
| to draw something out of something else; to remove | extract |
| to set free | liberate |
| a movement or change of position, usually of many people or animals | migration |
| the beginning or start | onset |
| happening early in the history of humans and the world, or simple and not complicated | primitive |