English Homework

Vocabulary
1. Demand: when everyone wants a new car, there is a strong demand of cars.
2. Pension: the retired workers used his monthly pension to pay bills and buy food
3. Production: automobile production increases when many people have Money to buy automobiles
4. Stock: after we bought the company’s stock, we owned a small part of that company
5. Supply: farmers supply thenation with food.
6. Surplus: farmers sometimes grow too much wheat. this crop surplus can cause the Price of wheat to fall
7. Unemployment: unemployment can have terrible consequences.
8. Assistance: help or support
9. Economy: the way that the Money and other products are produced and used in a particulary country
10. Invest: give money to a company
11. Recovery: theprocess of returning to a normal condition after a period of trouble
12. Regulate: control an activity or process
13. Flourishing: growing well
14. Prosperous: rich and successful
15. Slump: sudden fall in the value of something
16. Profitable: producing Money from selling things
17. Waver: be uncertain
18. Collapsed: fell suddently
19. Value: amount of money
20.Catastrophe: terrible event that causes suffering
21. Failed: went out of business due to lack of money
22. Were laid off: lost their jobs
23. Charities: organizations that give help
24. Shelters: places that protect you from bad weather
25. Rural: related to the countryside
26. Deepend: got worse
27. Fertile: able to produce a lot of plants
28. Migrant labor: workdone by people who move from place to place
29. Unemployment insurance: Money paid by the goverment to people who have no job
30. Social security: Money paid by the goverment to people who are old
31. Interfere: get involved
32. Drastic: extreme
33. Public Works: projects built by the government for public use
34. Desapairing: feeling there is no hope
35. Contracted:bécame ill with
36. Insures: protects
37. Controversial: causing a lot of disagreement
38. Delay: make late
39. Burden: cause trouble for
40. Asses: make a judgment about a person or situation after thinking carefully about it
41. Finance: provide Money for something
42. Institution: a Large organization
43. Method: planned way of doing something
44. Region: a fairlylarge area of a state.
45. Augers: tools used to make holes
46. Soil tests: tests to see if the soil is still fertile
47. Squatted on their hams: sat with knees bent, balance don their feet
48. Corn-headed: blond
49. Worshiped: showed respect and admiration for
50. Refuge: safe place
51. Ensnared: caught in a dangerous situation
52. Masters: men in control
53.Scrabbled: felt around with your fingers
54. Sucks all the blood out of it: destroys it
55. Rotate: change
56. Pump blood back into the land: make the land productive again
57. Hang on: stay
58. Explosives: bombs
59. Hit the ceiling: bring a very high price
60. Alarmed: worried
61. Plows: large farming machines that cut the soil
62. Acres: units of area used tomeasure land
63. Go on relief: take money for food from the government
64. Circulates: the heart pushes blood through our arteries and veins. In this way blood circulates to every part.
65. Humidity: the air in the desert is very dry; there is very little humidity
66. Moisture: a small amount of liquid was on the glass. the moisture on the glass made it slippery
67. Pressure:the pressure in my bicycle’s tires was very high.
68. Reservoirs: the city’s drinking water comes from the mountains and is stored in reservoirs until we are ready to use it
69. Torrents: torrents of water rushed down the mountain.
70. Turbulence: flying through air turbulence, the airplane bumped around as it was pounded by sudden winds.
71. Cycle: a number of related events...