| A | B |
| adjust | to change |
| advancement | to get better, move ahead |
| automobile | it allowed people to work in the city, yet live in the suburbs or country |
| composition | what something consists of |
| contingent | a group of people |
| dominant | majority - to take give orders |
| donations | money which people give |
| exclude | to leave out |
| faulty | it doesn't work |
| femininity | lady like |
| flee | to run away from |
| flourish | to develop; to grow, to bloom |
| forge forging | to move ahead - to lead the way |
| fragment | to break into pieces |
| halt | to stop |
| health care | people can see a doctor or dentist |
| hostility | war - anger |
| limit | to put a cap on something - they can go so fast, or buy so many |
| low-skilled jobs | work usually involving working with your hands, or dirty work |
| modest | shy, a low level |
| motivation | its what makes you do something |
| perceive | to see - how you view something |
| perceptive | able to see something - to have an idea about something - to pick up things with your mind |
| principal reason | the main, or 1st thing |
| prosperity | rich |
| quarantine | to cut off - to isolate |
| restrict restrictive restriction | to limit - to reduce someone's freedom |
| scholarships | to get money to go to college |
| seamstress | someone who makes clothes; shirts or tailors them, reduces the length of pants |
| sentiment | how you feel about something |
| severly limit | restrict |
| strain | to stretch as in relations between 2 countries |
| surge | to go ahead - to forge ahead |
| taverns | a bar - a place where alcohol is served |
| thrift thrifty | to save money |
| tuberculosis | a lung disease |
| unique | special, one of a kind |
| vital programs | things which are very important |
| volunteer | to give up time, to work for free |