Vocabulary

• care of: Used in an address to indicate the person who will receive the mail for someone else.
• in concert: Together in cooperation or agreement.
• work in: To make an opening for something in your schedule
• think of: To look on as (being something specific); consider
• back into: To drive a vehicle backwards into a space or area.
• filter out: To remove or separate something unwanted from a liquid or gas using a filter; to remove or ignore something unwanted from a group or collection.
• no accident: Not happening by chance; deliberate or intentional.
• essential: Extremely or most important and necessary
• resilience: Ability to recover quickly from something bad
• elaborate: To explain something in detail
• infrastructure: Basic necessary equipment for a country or region
• bacteria: The very small creatures that can cause disease
• climate: Typical weather conditions in a particular place
• contribute: To be a factor in causing something to happen
• estimate: Guess or calculation of cost, size or value
• absorb: To take up all attention / energy of something
• condition: To improve something to make it better
• sustain: To lengthen or continue to do something
• filter: Device to remove certain types of light, sound
• direct: To tell someone in a very clear way to do something
• diminish: To make something smaller or less important
• population: Number of people who live in a country, area etc.
• trap: Device used for catching animals
• challenge: An activity you wish to try that may be hard to do
• retain: To continue to have or use; keep the quality of
• render: To cause to be in a certain state or condition
• breed: Kind of / sort of
• religious: Following the rules and beliefs of a faith
• sanitation: Water systems that protect people's health
• agriculture: The science of farming
• sacred: Worthy of religious worship; very holy
• reduce: To try to decrease, e.g. your weight if overweight
• rely: Depend on with full trust or confidence
• urban: Concerning a city; located in a city
• radiation: Energy transmitted as rays, waves or particles
• soil: Conditions in which something develops
• tale: Story that is not true
• ensure: To make something sure, certain, or safe
• enlightenment: State of having a lot of knowledge and wisdom
• carbon: Chemical element with an atomic number of 6
• brick: Baked clay block used to build houses, walls
• mineral: Substance naturally formed in the ground
• chop: To cut into pieces with an up and down motion
• storm: To act violently or angrily
• system: Set of organized, planned ideas that work together
• vertical: (Of a line, etc.) going up and down; not horizontal
• modern: Of the present time; up to date; contemporary
• natural: Being as one would expect; being usual or normal
• contaminate: To make impure by adding a harmful element
• grow: To get bigger and more mature; make plants do this
• expansion: Making or becoming larger
• reverence: Feeling or showing of great respect and loyalty
• design: To plan in a particular way to fulfill a purpose
• vegetation: (Of plants) to grow in an area (without humans)
• forest: Large area with many trees
• begin: To do the first part of an action; to start
• porous: With many tiny holes so liquid, etc. passes through
• purify: To make pure by removing unwanted substances
• foliage: Leaves of a plant
• health: (Person, company) being in a good condition; well
• poor: Inferior; below the normal standard
• cholera: Fatal disease from drinking dirty water
• meter: Unit of length equal to 100 cm or about 39 inches
• day: A period of 24 hours beginning at midnight
• air: Mixture of gases around the earth that we breathe
• buddha: Someone achieving a state of perfect enlightenment
• house: Place where a specific activity or business occurs
• runoff: A second election to find a winner
• water: Clear liquid that forms the seas, rivers and rain
• savannah: Flat grassland of tropical or subtropical regions
• bc: Before Christ; used after dates/years
• rainwater: Drops of fresh water that fall from clouds