A | B |
wives | woman who has a husband; married woman |
Sioux | American Indian tribe living on the plains of the northern United States and southern Canada |
tariffs | list of duties or taxes that a government charge on imports and exports |
great-aunts | grandaunt |
mementos | something that serves as a reminder for something that is gone; souvenir |
mosquitoes | any of a family of small, slender insects with two wings |
crises | a deciding event or events |
analyses | breaking up of anything complex into its various simple elements |
criteria | rule or standard for making judgement; a standard |
species | group of related organisms that have certain permanent characteristics in common |
wharves | platforms built along the shore or out fromt he shore, beside which ships can load and unload |
ghettos | a part of a city where any racial group or nationality lives, a part of a city in Europe where Jews were required to live |
pistachios | a greenish nut having a flavor that suggests almond |
vetoes | the right or power of a president, govenor, ets. to reject bills passed by a lawmaking body |
embargoes | an order of government forbidding the merchant ships to leave its ports |
sisters-in-law | sister of one's husband or wife; wife of one's brother |
diagnoses | act or process of identifying a disease by careful investigation of its symptoms |
stimuli | something that stirs to action or effort; stimulus |
phenomena | fact, event, or circumstance that can be observed; an extraordinary person or thing |
giraffes | African mammal that chews ist cud and has a very long neck, long legs, and spotted skin |