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  1. disruption
    an act or event that causes a delay or break in an ongoing activity
  2. compass
    navigational instrument for finding directions
  3. sponsor
    an advocate who presents a person
  4. settlement
    the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies
  5. scurvy
    a condition caused by deficiency of ascorbic acid
  6. immunity
    the condition in which an organism can resist disease
  7. diminished
    made to seem smaller or less, especially in worth
  8. Meniere
    French otologist who first described a form of vertigo now known as Meniere's disease and identified the semicircular canals as the site of the lesion (1799-1862)
  9. durable
    existing for a long time
  10. colony
    a group of organisms of the same type living together
  11. imperialism
    a policy of extending your rule over foreign countries
  12. astrolabe
    instrument used to calculate positions of celestial bodies
  13. Bartholomeu Dias
    Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500)
  14. Giovanni Cabato
    Italian explorer who led the English expedition in 1497 that discovered the mainland of North America and explored the coast from Nova Scotia to Newfoundland (ca. 1450-1498)
  15. John Cabot
    Italian explorer who led the English expedition in 1497 that discovered the mainland of North America and explored the coast from Nova Scotia to Newfoundland (ca. 1450-1498)
  16. tuberculosis
    infection transmitted by inhalation or ingestion of bacilli
Created on Mon Oct 14 14:05:37 EDT 2013

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