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Vocabulary

Published on Nov 21, 2015

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RATION

  • Definition:a fixed of a commodity officially allowed to each person during a time of shortage
  • Sentence: A person was only allowed of ration

WAR BOND

  • Definition: debt issued by government to finance military
  • Sentence: The war bond was $100.
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DEPRESSION

  • Definition: period of low economic activity
  • Sentence: At one point the United States went into depression.
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VICTORY GARDENS

  • Definition: small vegetable gardens planted on the home front during WW2
  • Sentence: My neighbor started a victory garden.

STOCK MARKET

  • Definition: a stock exchange
  • Sentence: My dad works with the stock markets a lot.
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RURAL:

  • Definition: countryside
  • Sentence: I live in a rural area.
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BOOM-AND-BUST

  • Definition: economic expansion and contraction that occurs
  • Sentence: Right now we are in the boom-and-bust time.
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DESEGREGATE:

  • Definition: to free a place or institution from laws or practice separating races
  • Sentence: The United States didn't desegregate at one point.