| abuse |
cruel or harmful treatment. |
| adhesive |
able or likely to stick to something; clinging. |
| adolescent |
a person who is changing from a child to an adult; teenager. |
| clause |
a group of words that has a subject and a verb. Clauses can be part or all of a sentence. |
| construct |
to build; put together. |
| currency |
the money that is used in a country. |
| deprecate |
to disparage or treat as having small value; depreciate. |
| extensive |
reaching or extending very far. |
| fluent |
able to speak or write easily and naturally. |
| historian |
one who writes about or is an expert on history. |
| judicial |
having to do with judges, law courts, or their activities. |
| locale |
a place, especially as the setting of some event. |
| recuperate |
to become healthy again after being ill. |
| reform |
the changing of wrong or bad conditions to make them better. |
| specificity |
the quality of being exact, precise, or particular. |