Vocabulary 3

Prairie = grassland / substantive / “ˈpre(ə)rē” / 👉🏻 The prairie regions surrounding the port of Houston had to be transformed to solidify its foothold as the energy export capital of Texas.

 

Dam = dike/ substantive/ “dam”/ 👉🏻A sand dam is a thousand-year old technique to collect water in arid regions

 

Apathy = lethargy / verb/ “ˈapəTHē”/ 👉🏻If you hang your clothes out in the bright sun, they will fade.

 

Plight = condition / noun/ “plait”/ 👉🏻Few of us can be unmoved by the plight of the refugees.

 

Threshold = limit / substantive/ ˈTHreSHˌ(h)ōld/ 👉🏻 People have different thresholds for how much caffeine they can tolerate.