Vocabulary #3
Published on Nov 18, 2015
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BOOM-AND-BUST
- Cycle' A process of economic expansion and contraction that occurs repeatedly.
- Boom- and-bust has happened more than once.
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DEPRESSION
- The financial and industrial slump of 1929 and subsequent years.
- The Great Depression affected many people and their jobs.
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DESEGREGATE
- the elimination of laws, customs, or practices under which different races, groups, etc., are restricted
- to specific or separate public facilities, neighborhoods, schools, organizations, or the like.
- We have to desegregate our schools.
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RATION
- a fixed amount of a commodity officially allowed to each person during a time of shortage, as in wartime.
- We must ration our food.
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RURAL
- 1. in, relating to, or characteristic of the countryside rather than the town.
- We live in a rural area.
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VICTORY GARDEN
- a vegetable garden, esp. a home garden, planted to increase food production during a war.
- My family has a victory garden.
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WAR BOND
- debt securities issued by a government to finance military operations and other expenditure in times of war.
- My family has a war bond.
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