NEO 64

Question 1

labor

Answer 1

to do hard physical work
example: filled with workers laboring amid massive machinery driven by either water or
steam power.

Question 2

amid

Answer 2

in the middle of or surrounded by; among
example: filled with workers laboring amid massive machinery driven by either water or steam power.

Question 3

guild

Answer 3

an organization of people who do the same job or have the same interests
example: skilled craftsmen belonging to urban guilds, and these artisans

Question 4

artisan

Answer 4

someone who does skilled work with their hands
example: and these artisans, working either by themselves or with the assistance of apprentices or journeymen,

Question 5

apprentice

Answer 5

someone who has agreed to work for a skilled person for a particular period of time and often for low payment, in order to learn that person’s skills
example: and these artisans, working either by themselves or with the assistance of apprentices or journeymen

Question 6

journeymen

Answer 6

any worker who produces good but not excellent work
example: and these artisans, working either by themselves or with the assistance of apprentices or journeymen,

Question 7

oxcarts

Answer 7

a cart drawn by oxen(male cattle)
example: , produced everything from candlesticks and hats to oxcarts and beds

Question 8

entrepreneur

Answer 8

someone who starts their own business, especially when this involves seeing a new opportunity
example: Beginning in the sixteenth century, entrepreneurs began employing families in the countryside to spin and
weave cloth and make nails and cutlery

Question 9

cutlery

Answer 9

knives, forks, and spoons used for eating food
example: Beginning in the sixteenth century, entrepreneurs began employing families in the countryside to spin and
weave cloth and make nails and cutlery

Question 10

imperative

Answer 10

extremely important or urgent
example: n. Temporary labor shortages sometimes made the transition from
rural industry to factory production imperative.

Question 11

munitions

Answer 11

military weapons such as guns and bombs:
example: such as pottery and munitions.

Question 12

per capita

Answer 12

used to refer to the amount of income earned, money spent, goods produced, etc. by or for each person:
example: division of labor could increase per capita productivity from no more than twenty pins a day to the astonishing total of 4,800.

Question 13

dexterity

Answer 13

the ability to use the hands skillfully in doing something
example: The only skill factory workers needed was manual dexterity to operate the
machinery.

Question 14

Glacial

Answer 14

extremely cold:
example: Causes of Glacial Ages

Question 15

tectonics

Answer 15

processes that relate to the structure of the earth’s surface and the way it is formed, changed, and moved by forces inside it:
example: from the theory of plate tectonics.

Question 16

latitudes

Answer 16

an area near to a particular latitude:
latitude: the position north or south of the Equator measured in degrees
example: somewhere in the higher latitudes before an ice age can commence

Question 17

commence

Answer 17

to begin something
example: somewhere in the higher latitudes before an ice age can commence

Question 18

oscillations

Answer 18

a single swing (as of an oscillating body) from one extreme limit to the other
example: the climatic oscillations that characterized the Pleistocene

Question 19

fluctuations

Answer 19

a change, or the process of changing, especially continuously between one level or thing and another
example: correlate these changes with the climatic fluctuations of the Pleistocene