Cinematic - A film or movie
Macrocosm - The entire world; the universe.
Microcosm - A little world; a miniature universe. Hence, man, as a supposed epitome of the exterior universe or great world
Persistent - Refusing to give up or let go; persevering obstinately.
Infallible - Incapable of erring
Consolidated - To unite into one system or whole; combine
Appropriations - A legislative act authorizing the expenditure of a designated amount of public funds for a specific purpose
Preemption - The right to purchase something before others, especially the right to purchase public land that is granted to one who has settled on that land
Speculators - One that speculates
Homesteader - A house, especially a farmhouse, with adjoining buildings and land
Incongruous - inconsistent with reason or logic or common sense
Consensus - An opinion or position reached by a group as a whole: "Among political women... there is a clear consensus about the problems women candidates have traditionally faced" (Wendy Kaminer
Individualistic - One that asserts individuality by independence of thought and action
Primal - Being first in time; original; primeval
Validating - To declare or make legally valid
Innumerable - Too numerous to be counted; numberless
Venerability - Commanding respect by virtue of age, dignity, character, or position
Anomalous - Deviating from the normal or common order, form, or rule
Intermediary - Existing or occurring between; intermediate
Impermanence - Not lasting or durable; not permanent
Irrigation - To supply (dry land) with water by means of ditches, pipes, or streams; water artificially.
Aqueduct - A pipe or channel designed to transport water from a remote source, usually by gravity
Ch3
Invocation - The act or an instance of invoking, especially an appeal to a higher power for assistance
Denunciation - The act or an instance of denouncing, especially a public condemnation or censure
Sovereignty - Supremacy of authority or rule as exercised by a sovereign or sovereign state
Parallel - Of, relating to, or designating two or more straight coplanar lines that do not intersect
Stridency - Loud, harsh, grating, or shrill; discordant
Philosophical - Of, relating to, or based on a system of philosophy
Transitional - Passage from one form, state, style, or place to another
Competent - Properly or sufficiently qualified; capable: a competent typist
Heighten - To raise or increase the quantity or degree of; intensify
Arbitrarily - Determined by chance, whim, or impulse, and not by necessity, reason, or principle: stopped at the first motel we passed, an arbitrary choice
Epithet - A term used to characterize a person or thing, such as rosy-fingered in rosy-fingered dawn or the Great in Catherine the Great
Gratuitously - Given or granted without return or recompense; unearned
Conducive - Tending to cause or bring about; contributive: working conditions not conducive to productivity
Discontented - Absence of contentment; dissatisfaction
Incompetence - The quality or state of being incompetent
Vulnerability - Susceptible to physical or emotional injury
Compensation - The act of compensating or the state of being compensated
Altruism - Unselfish concern for the welfare of others; selflessness
Erroneous - containing or characterized by error; as, "erroneous conclusions"
Constituents - Serving as part of a whole; component: a constituent element
Tyrannical - Of or relating to a tyrant or tyranny: a tyrannical government
Inefficient - Lacking the ability or skill to perform effectively; incompetent: an inefficient worker
Patronage - The support or encouragement of a patron, as for an institution or cause
Appropriations - A legislative act authorizing the expenditure of a designated amount of public funds for a specific purpose
Paternalistic - A policy or practice of treating or governing people in a fatherly manner, especially by providing for their needs without giving them rights or responsibilities
Sustenance - Something, especially food, that sustains life or health
Entrusted - To give over (something) to another for care, protection, or performance: "He still has the aura of the priest to whom you would entrust your darkest secrets
Emanated - To come or send forth, as from a source: light that emanated from a lamp; a stove that emanated a steady heat
Squatter - To settle on unoccupied land without legal claim
Interpenetration - The act of penetrating between or within other substances; mutual penetration
Speculation - A conclusion, opinion, or theory reached by conjecture
Anomaly - Deviation or departure from the normal or common order, form, or rule
Proclamations - The act of proclaiming or the condition of being proclaimed
Advantageously - Affording advantage; beneficial
Phenomenon - An occurrence, circumstance, or fact that is perceptible by the senses
Therapeutic - Having or exhibiting healing powers: a therapeutic agent; therapeutic exercises
Intolerable - Impossible to tolerate or endure; unbearable: intolerable agony
Replication - A fold or a folding back
Metaphor - A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another, thus making an implicit comparison, as in "a sea of troubles" or "All the world's a stage
Postponements - To delay until a future time; put off
Utopian - Excellent or ideal but impracticable; visionary: a utopian scheme for equalizing wealth
Feminist - A person whose beliefs and behavior are based on feminism
Contagions - Disease transmission by direct or indirect contact
Ch 4
Accessibility - Easily approached or entered
Consolidated - To unite into one system or whole; combine: consolidated five separate agencies into a single department
Entrepreneurship - A person who organizes, operates, and assumes the risk for a business venture
Cholera - An acute infectious disease of the small intestine, caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae and characterized by profuse watery diarrhea, vomiting, muscle cramps, severe dehydration, and depletion of electrolytes. Also called Asiatic cholera
Degenerated - Having declined, as in function or nature, from a former or original state: a degenerate form of an ancient folk art
Rudimentary - Of or relating to basic facts or principles; elementary
Silicosis - A disease of the lungs caused by continued inhalation of the dust of siliceous minerals and characterized by progressive fibrosis and a chronic shortness of breath
Incompetence - The quality or state of being incompetent
Habituation - The process of habituating or the state of being habituated
Litigation - To contest in legal proceedings
Parlaying - To bet (an original wager and its winnings) on a subsequent event
Rapacious - Given to plunder; disposed or accustomed to seize by violence; seizing by force
Grudging - To be reluctant to give or admit: even grudged the tuition money
Mendicancy - Depending on alms for a living; practicing begging
Fraudulent - Engaging in fraud; deceitful
Ordinances - An authoritative command or order
Populist - A supporter of the rights and power of the people
Conservative - Favoring traditional views and values; tending to oppose change
