INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

Copy this vocabulary in alphabetical order in your notebook and investigate the unknown meanings.

 

Aim (verb): to have a goal

Acquire (verb): gain, earn, win, obtain, attain, achieve

In addition: what is more

Background (of picture/photo) the part of a picture, photograph or view behind the main objects, people, etc.

The foreground: the part of a view, picture, etc. that is nearest to you when you look at it

Background (family/education): the details of a person’s family, education, experience, etc

Become (verb): come to be, change

Bring about (verb): to cause, to produce

Benefit: profit, advantage

Benefit: money provided by the government to people who need financial help because they are unemployed, ill/sick, etc

Benefit  (verb): to be useful to somebody or improve their life in some way

Development: growth, advance, progress, evolution

Dramatic (adjective): sudden, very great and often surprising

Encourage (verb): inspire, animate, incite, stimulate, support

Fabric (noun): cloth, texture, weave

Face (verb): compel, coerce, oblige

Income (noun): salary, wages, earnings, pay, revenue, profits, gains, allowance

Increase (verb): grow, enlarge, expand, raise, augment

Decrease (verb): lessen, diminish, decline, reduce, lower

Improve (verb): make better, bécame better, progress, rectify

Liberalise (verb): to make something such as a law or a political or religious system less strict; to eliminate rectrictions/rules about economic activity

Manufacturer (noun): owner of a factory or an industrial business

Merchant (noun): trader, shopkeeper, dealer

Network (noun): system, organization, structure. A complicated system of roads, lines, tubes, nerves, etc. that cross each other and are connected to each other

Profit (noun): gain, value, benefit

Profitable (adjective): lucrative, useful, advantageous, productive, desirable, gainful

Profit (verb): to get something useful from a situation; to be useful to somebody or give tham an advantage

Rapid (adjective): fast; happening in a short period of time (rapid change/expansion/growth)

Spread (verb): reach, span, expanse

Struggle (noun): fight, battle, clash, combat, conflicto

Seize (verb): grasp, take, hold of, catch/ capture, take, gain

Steamship (noun): a ship driven by steam

Take place (verb): happen, occur, appear

Support (noun): a thing that holds something and prevents it from falling

Though is not throught

Though is something that you think or remember

Through means from one end or side of something/somebody to the other