7th Vocabulary Entry

1.             Convenient

Meaning: Fitting in well with a person's needs, activities, and plans

2.             Scapegoat

Meaning: a person or group made to bear the blame for others or to suffer in their place.

3.              Buffer

Meaning: A person or thing that prevents incompatible or antagonistic people or things from coming into contact with or harming each other.

4.              Paved 

Meaning: Cover (a piece of ground) with concrete, asphalt, stones, or bricks; lay paving over.

5.              Grasslands

Meaning: a region in which the climate is dry for long periods of the summer, and freezes in the winter

6.             gullies 

Meaning: To wear a deep ditch or channel in.

7.              Drainage

Meaning: The means of removing surplus water or liquid waste; a system of drains.

8.             Mother Nature

Meaning: Nature personified as a creative and controlling force.

9.             widespread 

Meaning: Found or distributed over a large area or number of people.

10.         destruction 

Meaning: The action or process of causing so much damage to something that it no     longer exists or cannot be repaired.

11.          foreseen

Meaning: to see or know before hand

12.         Legitimate

Meaning: justify or make lawful

13.         Meteorite

Meaning: a mass of stone or metal that has reached the earth from outer space

14.         wiped out

Meaning: destroy completely

15.         man-made

Meaning:  manufactured, created or constructed by human being

16.          accurately

Meaning: correct in all details

17.         short-sighted

Meaning: refractive defect of the eye in which collimated light produces image