1. Unit 5 Academic Vocabulary
Read the definition for each term.
Write a sentence correctly using each term.
You may handwrite on notebook paper, or type your sentence onto the slide and it to me.

2. Inflation
a general increase in prices and fall in the purchasing value of money.
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3. Over Production
production of more of a product, commodity, or substance than is wanted or needed
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4. Speculation
investment in stocks, property, or other ventures in the hope of gain but with the risk of loss.
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5. Stock Market
1. a particular market where stocks and bonds are traded; stock exchange.
2. the market for stocks throughout a nation
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6. Socialist a person who advocates or practices socialism.
Synonyms: left-wing, progressive, leftist, labor, anti-corporate, antiglobalization;
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7. Refugee
a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster.
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8. Welfare financial support given to people in need.
Synonyms: social security, social assistance, benefit, public assistance; pension, credit, support; sick pay, unemployment benefit;
Informal: the dole
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9. Government Agency
A government or state agency, often an appointed commission, is a permanent or semi-permanent organization in the machinery of government that is responsible for the oversight and administration of specific functions, such as an intelligence agency. There is a notable variety of agency types.
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10. Poverty the state of being extremely poor.
synonyms: penury, destitution, pauperism, pauperdom, beggary, indigence, pennilessness, impoverishment, neediness, need, hardship, impecuniousness
"abject poverty“
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11. Foreclosure
the action of taking possession of a mortgaged property when the mortgagor fails to keep up their mortgage payments
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12. Prosperity the state of being prosperous.
Synonyms: success, profitability, affluence, wealth, opulence, luxury, the good life, milk and honey, (good) fortune, ease, plenty, comfort, security, well-being
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13. Converge 1. come from different directions and meet at (a place).
"half a million sports fans will converge on the capital“
2. (of a number of things) gradually change so as to become similar or develop something in common.
"two cultures converged as the French settled Vermont“
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14. Distribution Use in a sentence
1. the action of sharing something out among a number of recipients.
Synonyms: giving out, dealing out, doling out, handing out/around, issue, issuing, dispensation
2. the way in which something is shared out among a group or spread over an area.
synonyms: dispersal, dissemination, spread
3. the action or process of supplying goods to stores and other 3. businesses that sell to consumers.
synonyms: supply, supplying, delivery, transport, transportation
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15. Obstacles
a thing that blocks one's way or prevents or hinders progress.
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16. Misery
1. a state or feeling of great distress or discomfort of mind or body.
synonyms: unhappiness, distress, wretchedness, suffering, anguish, anxiety, angst, torment, pain, grief, heartache, heartbreak, despair, despondency, dejection, depression, desolation, gloom, melancholy, melancholia, woe, sadness, sorrow
2. a cause or source of great distress or discomfort.
plural noun: miseries
synonyms: affliction, misfortune, difficulty, problem, ordeal, trouble, hardship, deprivation
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17. Tariff
a tax or duty to be paid on a particular class of imports or exports.
synonyms: tax, duty, toll, excise, levy, charge, rate, fee, countervail; price list
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18. Upsurge
an upward surge in the strength or quantity of something; an increase.
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