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Glossary: Big Towns and Little Towns


Vocabulary (Source found below)
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

Blacksmith (noun): a person or smith who forges iron

Campaign (noun): a connected series of operations designed to bring about a particular result <election campaign>

Converge (verb): to tend or move toward one point or one another: come together

Economy (noun): the structure of economic life in a country, area, or period

Factory (noun): building or set of buildings with facilities for manufacturing

Finance (noun): money or other liquid resources of a government, business, group, or individual

Forge (noun): a workshop where wrought iron is produced or where iron is made malleable

Granaries (noun): a storehouse for threshed grain

Institution (noun): an established organization or corporation (as a college or university) especially of a public character

Penitentiary (noun): public institution in which offenders against the law are confined for detention or punishment; specifically: a state or federal prison in the U.S.

Valuable (adjective): having monetary value

 

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