Vocabulary
Published on Nov 26, 2015
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INDUSTRIALIZATION
- Definition- the large scale introduction of manufacturing,
- advanced technical enterprises, and other productive
- economic activity into an area, society, country, ect.
- Industrialization has increased the demand for rubber.
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URBANIZATION
- Definition-to become more like a city.
- Sentence- factories helped urbanize cities.
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CITY COMMISSION
- Definition-a voted legislative body that
- makes taxation and other ordinances to
- help the city.
- Sentence- I was elected a part of the city commission.
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OPEC
- Definition- a group that sets the price of oil globally
- Sentence- the OPEC set the price of oil way to high.
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PETROLEUM
- Definition-noun 1. a liquid mixture of hydrocarbons that is present in certain rock strata
- and can be extracted and refined to produce fuels including gasoline, kerosene, and diesel oil; oil.
- Sentence- petroleum is the majority of my families income.
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WILDCATTER
- Definition-a prospector who sinks exploratory oil wells.
- Sentence-my grandfather was a wildcatter.
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EMBARGO
- Definition-noun 1. an official ban on trade or other commercial activity with a particular country. "an embargo on grain sales" ban, bar, prohibition, stoppage, foreign ships to enter, or any ships to leave, its ports. archaic a stoppage, prohibition, or impediment.
- Sentence- there was an embargo on tea.
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