The Pleasures of Eating: Understanding Key Vocabulary

J. Durasevic. (United States of America)
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  1. rural
    living in or characteristic of farming or country life
  2. proposition
    a suggestion offered for acceptance or rejection
  3. agricultural
    relating to or used in or promoting farming
  4. consumer
    a person who uses goods or services
  5. passive
    lacking in energy or will
  6. abstract
    existing only in the mind
  7. specialization
    making something suitable for a particular purpose
  8. consumption
    the act of using something up
  9. patron
    someone who supports or champions something
  10. industrial
    of or relating to commercial enterprise
  11. critical
    of a serious examination and judgment of something
  12. esthetics
    the branch of philosophy dealing with beauty and taste
  13. ethics
    motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
  14. perfunctory
    hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough
  15. oblivious
    lacking conscious awareness of
  16. edible
    suitable for use as food
  17. monoculture
    the act or practice of growing only one type of crop
  18. confinement
    the state of being enclosed
  19. relentless
    never-ceasing
  20. estranged
    caused to be unloved
  21. horticulture
    the cultivation of plants
  22. extensive
    large in spatial extent or range or scope or quantity
Created on Sun Apr 22 13:41:16 EDT 2018 (updated Sun Apr 22 13:49:07 EDT 2018)

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