urban jungle

Katherine F. (United States of America)
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  1. common
    having no special distinction or quality
  2. commons
    a pasture subject to common use
  3. green
    of the color between blue and yellow in the color spectrum
  4. park
    a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area
  5. megalopolis
    a very large urban complex
  6. urban sprawl
    an aggregation or continuous network of urban communities
  7. conurbation
    an aggregation or continuous network of urban communities
  8. municipality
    a local district having powers of self-government
  9. assemblage
    several things grouped together or considered as a whole
  10. converge
    be adjacent or come together
  11. encounter
    come together
  12. contact
    the act of touching physically
  13. concrete jungle
    an area in a city with large modern buildings that is perceived as dangerous and unpleasant
  14. base
    lowest support of a structure
  15. home
    where you live at a particular time
  16. unit
    a single undivided whole
  17. household
    a social unit living together in a residence
  18. habitation
    the act of dwelling in or living permanently in a place
  19. abode
    any address at which you dwell more than temporarily
  20. domicile
    housing that someone is living in
  21. habitat
    the type of environment in which an organism normally lives
  22. home ground
    the type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs
  23. communicate
    transfer to another
  24. transmit
    send from one person or place to another
  25. channel
    a deep and relatively narrow body of water
  26. express
    communicate beliefs or opinions
  27. venting
    the act of venting
  28. diffuse
    spread out; not concentrated in one place
  29. strew
    spread by scattering
  30. propagate
    multiply through reproduction
  31. sprawl
    sit or lie with one's limbs spread out
  32. supply
    circulate or distribute or equip with
  33. add
    join or combine or unite with others
  34. articulate
    express or state clearly
  35. sum
    a quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers
  36. enunciate
    express or state clearly
  37. append
    fix to; attach
  38. represent
    be a delegate or spokesperson for
  39. hurl
    throw forcefully
  40. exclaim
    utter aloud, often with surprise, horror, or joy
  41. clamour
    utter or proclaim insistently and noisily
  42. state
    the way something is with respect to its main attributes
  43. portray
    represent, as in a work of art
Created on Fri Aug 22 11:38:01 EDT 2008

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