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Word | Meaning | Advanced |
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resident | n: a person who lives in a particular place or has their home in a place | |
affluent | adj: rich and wealthy; having a lot of money and material wealth | |
plot | n: a secret plan or scheme to achieve a specific goal; the plan or main story of a literary work; (verb) to plan secretly, usually something illegal | |
intention | n: something you want to do and are going to do | |
refuse | v: to show that one is not willing to do or accept something | |
construct | v: to build or create something; to assemble or combine different parts to form something whole | |
incident | n: an event or occurrence, often unexpected or unplanned; something that happens | |
ripple | n: a small wave on the surface of a liquid, typically caused by an object falling into it or a slight wind | |
mob | n: a large and disorderly crowd of people; a large horde of animals | |
harass | v: to annoy, torment, or pester persistently; to subject someone to repeated or chronic attacks or unwelcome attention | |
racial | adj: of or related to the race (= classification of humans into groups based on physical traits or social relations) | |
restrictive | adj: limiting or confining in nature; imposing limits or restrictions on something or someone | |
covenant | n: an agreement or promise made by two or more parties, typically in a formal or religious context | |
property | n: a thing or things that belong to someone | |
deed | n: something that people do or cause to happen; a legal document signed and sealed and delivered to effect a transfer of property and to show the legal right to possess it | |
regulate | v: to control something, especially by means of rules or laws | |
statistics | n: the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data | |
employ | v: to give somebody a job and pay them for it; to make use of | |
specifically | adv: only associated with or meant for one thing | |
restrict | v: to limit someone’s actions or movements, or to limit something to lessen its size or prevent it from increasing | |
clause | n: a group of words containing a subject and a predicate and forming part of a sentence | |
lease | n: a legal document that grants a person or organization the right to use a property, land, or asset for a specified period of time, usually in exchange for rent or a fee; (verb) to rent or let out a property, vehicle, or other assets to someone for a specified period of time in exchange for payment | |
ethnic | adj: relating or belonging to a group of people who share a cultural tradition | |
wildfire | n: a large, uncontrolled fire that spreads quickly through a natural area such as a forest, grassland, or mountain slope | |
segregate | v: to separate or set apart from others, often based on race, gender, or some other characteristic | |
suburb | n: an outlying district or residential area of a city or town, typically comprising middle-class and affluent neighborhoods | |
restricted | adj: limited in extent, number, scope, or action, especially by official rules, laws, etc. | |
county | n: an administrative division of a country or state, typically one of several comprising a larger division | |
encompass | v: to surround or cover something completely; to include a large number of or different types of things entirely | |
eventually | adv: finally, particularly after a long time or a lot of struggle, complications, and so on | |
administer | v: to oversee and control the operation or arrangement of something | |
promote | v: to encourage or persuade people to like, buy, use, do, or support something; to raise someone to a higher position or rank | |
underwrite | v: to assume financial responsibility for something | |
develop | v: to grow or expand; to improve or refine through a process of progress and refinement, often to achieve greater sophistication or complexity; to elaborate or add detail to something that is in the process of being created | |
outset | n: the beginning of something | |
communal | adj: belonging to or used by a group rather than individuals; for common use | |
recognize | v: to acknowledge or realize something or someone; to identify, remember, or become aware of something that was previously known or encountered | |
prototype | n: a first or preliminary example of something such as a device or vehicle from which other forms are developed | |
postwar | adj: relating to the period following a war, particularly World War II; characterized by the rebuilding and recovery of countries and societies | |
identical | adj: being the exact same one | |
affordable | adj: not expensive and able to pay | |
veteran | n: a person who has had long experience in a particular area or activity | |
occupy | v: to consume all of someone’s space, attention, or time | |
servant | n: a person who performs duties for others, especially a person employed in a house on domestic duties or as a personal attendant | |
flock | n: a gathering of sheep, goats, or birds | |
homogeneous | adj: consisting of or composed of parts that are similar or identical in nature, kind, or character; uniform in structure or composition | |
phenomenon | n: something that exists and can be perceptible, especially one that is not fully understood | |
flee | v: to leave by running away, especially out of fear or danger | |
replace | v: to take the place of something | |
native | adj: connecting with or describing someone’s birth country or place of birth, or someone born in a specific country or place | |
ecosystem | n: all the plants and living creatures in an area and the way they affect each other and the environment | |
pave | v: to cover something with a hard, flat material such as stones, bricks, or concrete, to make it suitable for travel or use | |
guzzle | v: to drink something quickly, greedily, and usually in large amounts. | |
lawn | n: a stretch of ground covered with grass, typically attached to a house, and often used for recreation or aesthetics | |
diffuse | adj: spread out widely; not concentrated in one place | |
layout | n: the way in which the parts of something are arranged or set out | |
necessitate | v: to make something necessary or essential; to require something as a condition or consequence | |
automobile | n: a road vehicle that has four wheels and is powered by an engine, used for transporting people or goods | |
quadruple | v: to consist of four items or people; to become four times as great or many | |
cement | v: make fast as if with cement; (noun) a building material that is a powder made of a mixture of calcined limestone and clay, used with water, sand, and small stones to make concrete | |
nation | n: a large organized community of people living in a particular country or region and having a particular culture | |
advantage | n: a condition or circumstance that puts one in a favorable or superior position; a beneficial feature or asset that someone or something has | |
government | n: the group of people with authority to control a country or state | |
label | n: a small piece of paper, fabric, or other material attached to an object and giving information about it; (verb) to assign to a category | |
invest | v: to put money, effort, time, etc. into something to make a profit or achieve a result | |
insure | v: to provide coverage in the event of loss or damage | |
mortgage | n: a loan secured by the collateral of a specific property, such as a house, that is repaid over a set period of time with interest; the legal agreement governing this loan | |
redline | n: a boundary or threshold beyond which something is no longer acceptable or allowed; a mark or line drawn in red to indicate a specific limit or danger zone | |
wealth | n: a large amount of money, property, or other things that someone or an organization owns | |
generation | n: all the people born and living at about the same time, regarded collectively; the production of heat or electricity | |
boast | v: to talk about someone’s accomplishments, wealth, or abilities excessively with undue pride and self-satisfaction | |
minimize | v: to make something, especially something bad, small or less serious | |
traffic | n: the movement of vehicles, people, or goods along a route or through a transport system; the amount of such movement in a particular place or at a particular time | |
identify | v: to recognize someone or something and say or prove who or what they are | |
inexpensive | adj: costing little; having a low price | |
industrial | adj: of or relating to or resulting from industry | |
massive | adj: enormous amount; very heavy and solid | |
freeway | n: a major highway designed for high-speed traffic, with no stoplights or grade crossings and having interchanges or access roads to other highways | |
disproportionately | adv: in a way that is not reasonably or appropriately balanced, equal, or distributed; in a manner that is unequal or excessive about something else | |
accompany | v: to go somewhere or travel with someone or something | |
industrious | adj: hardworking, diligent, and persistent in effort | |
pollution | n: the introduction of harmful substances or waste into the natural environment that causes adverse change | |
contamination | n: the presence of something harmful or unwanted in a substance, material, or environment; the act of introducing harmful substances or materials into an environment or area | |
asthma | n: a chronic respiratory disease characterized by wheezing, coughing, and difficulty breathing | |
increasingly | adv: more and more | |
ban | v: to officially or legally forbid or refuse to allow something | |
dam | n: a wall constructed over a river to block the flow of water, mainly used to generate energy | |
concentration | n: the ability to focus all your time and energy on one thing without thinking about anything else. | |
depressed | adj: sad and without any hope | |
gap | n: a conspicuous disparity or difference separates something such as a figure, people, their opinions, situation, etc. | |
twin | n: either of two children born at the same time from the same mother | |
predominantly | adv: mainly, mostly, or primarily; having the greatest influence or power in a particular situation or group | |
landlord | n: a person or organization that rents a room, a house, an office, etc. | |
discriminate | v: to treat a person or particular group of people worse or better than another, especially in an unfair way; to recognize or perceive the difference between people or things | |
reject | v: to refuse to accept, consider, or use something or someone | |
steer | v: to control the direction or movement of a vehicle; to direct a course of action; to guide or motivate someone | |
inaccessible | adj: unable to travel to or reach; not available | |
gentrify | v: to renovate, revitalize, or develop a deteriorated, predominantly urban area, often leading to the displacement of low-income or minority residents and the influx of more affluent residents and businesses | |
exclusionary | adj: tending to exclude or keep out certain groups, individuals, or ideas; characterized by the exclusion of others | |
zone | n: a specific area, region, or section that is marked off or defined in some way | |
displace | v: to force someone or something to leave their home or place of origin, especially as a result of conflict, natural disaster, or manipulation | |
illegal | adj: not allowed by law | |
etch | v: to carve, cut, or engrave (a design or text) into a hard surface; to corrode, erode or eat away at a metal surface using acid or another chemical substance to create a design or pattern | |
pristine | adj: new and completely free from dirt or contamination | |
footnote | n: a note of additional information provided at the bottom of a page in a book or document, often indicated by a superscript number or symbol in the main text | |
demographic | n: a statistic characterizing that describes people or groups of people based on their age, sex, income, etc. | |
divide | v: to separate or cause to separate into parts or groups | |
insidious | adj: tending to entrap or beguile unawares; working or spreading in a hidden and usually harmful way | |
architect | n: a person whose job is to design plans to be used in making something, such as buildings | |
inequality | n: the unfairness of a society in which some people have more opportunity, money, etc. than others; (mathematics) relation between two values when they are different |