| autobiography |
the story of a person's life written or told by that person. |
| capitalism |
an economic system in which land, factories, and other resources are owned by individuals instead of the government. In this system, the prices of things we buy are decided by the people who sell them and not by the government. |
| desolate |
without the things that are necessary or desirable for life. |
| diminish |
to make smaller or cause to appear smaller in size or importance. |
| disdain |
an attitude or display of contempt; scorn. |
| ethic |
(plural) an individual's or group's moral principles. |
| expel |
to force out or drive out. |
| inflame |
to stir up or intensify. |
| obese |
very fat. |
| ongoing |
continuing from sometime in the past into the present. |
| outbreak |
a sudden breaking out or increase in activity of disease. |
| pretense |
an act or instance of pretending; sham or fiction. |
| romance |
a love relationship, either in life or in literature or film. |
| stern1 |
firm and determined; not flexible. |
| variable |
something that can change or that has no fixed value. |