"The Americans: Reconstruction to the 21st Century," Vocabulary from Epilogue

This list focuses on issues for the 21st century (Unit 7, Epilogue).

Here are links to all the chapters in Unit 7, Passage to a New Century: Chapter 24, Chapter 25, Chapter 26, Epilogue

Here are links to all the units of the California edition of the textbook published by McDougal Littell: Unit 1, Unit 2, Unit 3, Unit 4, Unit 5, Unit 6, Unit 7
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  1. intimidation
    being made to feel afraid or timid
  2. vulnerability
    susceptibility to injury or attack
  3. monitor
    keep an eye on; keep under surveillance
  4. weapon
    any instrument used in fighting or hunting
  5. mass
    a large number, amount, or extent
  6. sophisticated
    complex or intricate
  7. grave
    causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm
  8. illegal
    prohibited by law or by official or accepted rules
  9. entry
    the act of going in
  10. citizenship
    membership in a state with rights and duties
  11. responsibility
    the proper sphere or extent of your activities
  12. numerous
    amounting to a large indefinite number
  13. incidence
    the relative frequency of occurrence of something
  14. violence
    an act of aggression
  15. differential
    relating to or showing a distinction
  16. treatment
    the management of someone or something
  17. enforcement
    ensuring observance of or obedience to
  18. discrepancy
    a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions
  19. disparity
    inequality or difference in some respect
  20. dissemination
    the act of dispersing or diffusing something
  21. reliable
    able to be depended on; consistent or steady
  22. accessible
    easily obtained
  23. premium
    payment for insurance
  24. coverage
    the total amount and type of insurance carried
  25. cycle
    a periodically repeated sequence of events
  26. recipient
    a person to whom something is sent, given, or awarded
  27. beneficiary
    the recipient of funds or other advantages
  28. privatization
    changing something from state to individual ownership
  29. counterpart
    a person or thing having the same function as another
  30. barrier
    any condition that makes it difficult to make progress
  31. option
    one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen
  32. emission
    a substance that is released
  33. ecosystem
    organisms interacting with their physical environment
  34. concern
    something that interests you because it is important
  35. grapple
    work hard to come to terms with or deal with something
Created on Wed Nov 16 14:11:09 EST 2016 (updated Wed Nov 23 16:51:37 EST 2016)

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