Why Place Matters Vocab

Question 1

Define Globalizaiton

Answer 1

The process by which businesses or other organizations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale.

Question 2

Define Commerce

Answer 2

The activity of buying and selling, especially on a large scale.

Question 3

Define Tenuous

Answer 3

Very weak or slight.

Question 4

Define Fungible

Answer 4

(Of a product or commodity) replaceable by another identical term; mutually interchangeable.

Question 5

Define Evident

Answer 5

Plain or obvious

Question 6

Define Plausible

Answer 6

(Of an argument or statement) seeming reasonable or probable.

Question 7

Define Corporeal

Answer 7

Relating to a person’s body; especially as opposed to their spirit.

Question 8

Define Finite

Answer 8

Having limits or bounds.

Question 9

Define Embodiment

Answer 9

A tangible or visible form of an idea, quality, or feeling.

Question 10

Define Ungainly

Answer 10

(Of a person or movement) awkward; clumsy.

Question 11

Define Calamity

Answer 11

An event causing great and often sudden damage or distress; a disaster.

Question 12

Define Cultivation

Answer 12

The process of trying to acquire or develop a quality or skill.

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Define Virtues

Answer 13

Behavior showing high moral standards.

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Define Evade

Answer 14

Escape or avoid, especially by cleverness or trickery.

Question 15

Define Tangible

Answer 15

Perceptible by touch.

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Define Persist

Answer 16

Continue firmly or obstinately in an opinion or a course of action in spite of difficulty, opposition, or failure.

Question 17

Define Substantial

Answer 17

Of considerable size, importance, or worth.

Question 18

Define Bereft

Answer 18

Deprived or lacking (something).

Question 19

Define Uprooted

Answer 19

Move (someone) from their home or a familiar location.

Question 20

Define Wither

Answer 20

Fall into decay or decline.

Question 21

Define Primeval

Answer 21

Of or resembling the earliest stages in the history of the world.

Question 22

Define Melodramatic

Answer 22

Characteristic of melodrama, especially in being exaggerated, sensationalized, or overemotional.

Question 23

Define Dynamic

Answer 23

( of a process or system) characterized by constant change, activity, or progress.

Question 24

Define Pervasive

Answer 24

(Especially of an unwelcome influence or physical effect) spreading widely throughout an area or group of people.

Question 25

Define Fluidity

Answer 25

Changeability; the state of being unsettled or unstable.

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Define Panoply

Answer 26

A complétele or impressive collection of things.

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Define Transient

Answer 27

Lasting for a short time; impermanent.

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Define Provisional

Answer 28

Arranged or existing for the presento possibly to be changed later.

Question 29

Define Sustenance

Answer 29

The maintaining of someone or something in life or existence.

Question 30

Define Encircle

Answer 30

Surround.

Question 31

Define Abstract

Answer 31

Existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence.

Question 32

Define Palpable.

Answer 32

(Of a feeling or atmosphere) so intense as to seem almost tangible.

Question 33

Define Flatfooted

Answer 33

Clumsy, awkward, or uninspired.

Question 34

Define Inherent

Answer 34

Existing in something as a permanent, essential, or characteristic attribute.

Question 35

Define Phenomenological

Answer 35

Denoting or relating to an approach that concentrates on the study of consciousness and the objects of direct experience.

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Define Frenetic

Answer 36

Fast and energetic in a rather wild and uncontrolled way.

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Define Porous

Answer 37

Not retentive or secure.

Question 38

Define Inexorable

Answer 38

Impossible to stop or prevent.

Question 39

Define Coherent

Answer 39

United as or forming a whole.

Question 40

Define Orient

Answer 40

Adjust or tailor (something) to specified circumstances or needs.

Question 41

Define Resilient

Answer 41

(Of a person) able to withstand or recover quickly from difficult conditions