Why Place Matters Vocab Flashcards
Define Globalizaiton
The process by which businesses or other organizations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale.
Define Commerce
The activity of buying and selling, especially on a large scale.
Define Tenuous
Very weak or slight.
Define Fungible
(Of a product or commodity) replaceable by another identical term; mutually interchangeable.
Define Evident
Plain or obvious
Define Plausible
(Of an argument or statement) seeming reasonable or probable.
Define Corporeal
Relating to a person’s body; especially as opposed to their spirit.
Define Finite
Having limits or bounds.
Define Embodiment
A tangible or visible form of an idea, quality, or feeling.
Define Ungainly
(Of a person or movement) awkward; clumsy.
Define Calamity
An event causing great and often sudden damage or distress; a disaster.
Define Cultivation
The process of trying to acquire or develop a quality or skill.
Define Virtues
Behavior showing high moral standards.
Define Evade
Escape or avoid, especially by cleverness or trickery.
Define Tangible
Perceptible by touch.
Define Persist
Continue firmly or obstinately in an opinion or a course of action in spite of difficulty, opposition, or failure.
Define Substantial
Of considerable size, importance, or worth.
Define Bereft
Deprived or lacking (something).
Define Uprooted
Move (someone) from their home or a familiar location.
Define Wither
Fall into decay or decline.
Define Primeval
Of or resembling the earliest stages in the history of the world.
Define Melodramatic
Characteristic of melodrama, especially in being exaggerated, sensationalized, or overemotional.
Define Dynamic
( of a process or system) characterized by constant change, activity, or progress.
Define Pervasive
(Especially of an unwelcome influence or physical effect) spreading widely throughout an area or group of people.
Define Fluidity
Changeability; the state of being unsettled or unstable.
Define Panoply
A complétele or impressive collection of things.
Define Transient
Lasting for a short time; impermanent.
Define Provisional
Arranged or existing for the presento possibly to be changed later.
Define Sustenance
The maintaining of someone or something in life or existence.
Define Encircle
Surround.
Define Abstract
Existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence.
Define Palpable.
(Of a feeling or atmosphere) so intense as to seem almost tangible.
Define Flatfooted
Clumsy, awkward, or uninspired.
Define Inherent
Existing in something as a permanent, essential, or characteristic attribute.
Define Phenomenological
Denoting or relating to an approach that concentrates on the study of consciousness and the objects of direct experience.
Define Frenetic
Fast and energetic in a rather wild and uncontrolled way.
Define Porous
Not retentive or secure.
Define Inexorable
Impossible to stop or prevent.
Define Coherent
United as or forming a whole.
Define Orient
Adjust or tailor (something) to specified circumstances or needs.
Define Resilient
(Of a person) able to withstand or recover quickly from difficult conditions
