Glossary
- additional
- Extra.
- admission
- The right to enter.
- amity
- Peaceful relations between nations.
- anthropology
- The study of humankind.
- assemble
- To bring together or come together as a group.
- assets
- Valuable possessions.
- boom
- Sudden growth of a place.
- ceding
- To surrender or give up something.
- citrus
- Fruit including oranges, grapefruits, tangerines, tangelos, and lemons.
- commercial
- Related to business, or to the buying or selling of goods and services.
- conceivable
- Possible to imagine, understand, or believe.
- consistent
- Staying with the same ideas, actions, or set of principles.
- coral
- A hard stony substance formed by skeletons of tiny, usually tropical, sea animals massed together in great numbers.
- court
- Building where legal decisions are made.
- earnestly
- Seriously.
- economy
- The system that organizes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services in a country, region, or community.
- enchanting
- Attractive or delightful.
- festooned
- Covered with a chain of flowers or leaves.
- fleet
- A group of ships.
- fowl
- Bird.
- give in
- To surrender, to yield.
- graduation
- A ceremony at which students receive their diplomas or degrees.
- Hispaniola
- An island east of Cuba, divided between the countries of Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
- industry
- Production and sale of goods.
- inestimable
- Of such great worth that a value cannot be placed upon it.
- interpret
- To understand the meaning of.
- lull
- A period of time that is calm.
- Malaysia
- A country of southeast Asia including the southern Malay Peninsula and the northern part of the island of Borneo.
- moderate
- Not large.
- moment
- Importance.
- mutually
- Shared in common.
- observatory
- A building, a place, or an institution designed and equipped for making observations of the stars, planets, weather, or other natural things.
- palmetto
- Any of several small, mostly tropical palms that have fan-shaped leaves.
- penetrate
- To enter or pass through.
- physically
- Relating to the body.
- posterity
- Future generations.
- preamble
- The introduction to a formal document that explains its purpose.
- preserved
- Protected.
- pristine
- Not corrupted by civilization.
- province
- A political region or division of a country.
- pursuit
- The act of trying to achieve.
- reasonably
- Fairly.
- sanctuary
- A place or an area of land where wildlife is protected.
- series
- Collection.
- steamer
- A boat or ship that is powered by a steam engine.
- sum
- An amount of money.
- supervision
- Guidance by a manager.
- tangible
- Something that can be touched.
- teem
- To be full of things.
- varieties
- Types.
- virtue
- Moral goodness.