Vocabulary:
-A Desert into an edena : place changing from a dry place that grows nothing to a place with water that will grew everything
-Aqueduct: a human made river bed or tube that transports water
-Arch Capitalist :extreme capitalists
-Bond Issue : asking tax payers for money to fund a special government project
-Cival Servants :people that work for the government and that are paid by tax dollars
-Dilapidated : broken down
-Eons :long periods of time
-Harrison Gray Otis and Harry Chandler : owners of the Los Angeles Times
-Mayor Fred Eation : Mayor of LA in 1905
-Paiute Indians: Native Americans living in Owens Valley
-Rain Shadow : the climate on the dry side of the a mountain range
-Shipped Around the Horn: Cape Horn, the southern tip of South America
-Wampum (P.308): [slang] money
-Omnibus (P.310): a collection in a single, large volume of previously published works, as by a single author or related by a common them, etc.
-Boondoggle (P.315): to do trifling, pointless work
-Extol (P.218): to praise highly; laud
-Vociferously (P.321): making one's feeling known loudly or noisily
-Ballyhoo (P.323): loud;exaggerated, or sensational advertising or propaganda
-Draconian (P.322): extremely severe or cruel
-Avarice (P.336): greed for riches
-Cyclopean (P.356): huge;gigantic; enormous; massive
-Elfin (P.362): tiny, delicate
-Retrograde (P.363): moving or directed backwards; retiring or retreating
-Timorous (P.347): full of or subject to fear; timid
-Primordial (P.362): first in time; existing at or from the beginning
-Execrable (P.371): abominable; detestable
-Dilatory (P.373): causing or tending to cause delay
-Shaly (P.379): to be of or like shale
-Harrumph (P.382): to say something in a disapproving way
-Trona (P.383): a grey-white or yellowish-white mono clinic mineral consisting of a hydrous acid sodium carbonate
-Whipsawed (P.385): subjected to a double market loss through trying inopportunely to recoup a loss by a subsequent short sale of the same security
-Impetus (P.385): a force that causes something (such as a process or activity) to be done or become more active
-Sartorial (P.388): of or relating to clothes
-Rhyolitic (P.390): of or like theodolite
-Assayed (P.421): to have examined and determined characteristics such as weight, measure, or quality
-Centrifugal (P.436): moving away from a center
-Fallow (P.439): of a light yellowish-brown color
-Caprice (P.439): a sudden change
-Osmotic (P.440): of, relating to, or having the properties of osmosis
-Amorphous (P.440): having no definite shape
-Pinstripe (P.444): a vertical stripe on cloth
-Surfeit (P.455): an amount that is too much or more than you need
-Ephemeral (P.457): lasting a very short time
-Aqueduct: a human made river bed or tube that transports water
-Arch Capitalist :extreme capitalists
-Bond Issue : asking tax payers for money to fund a special government project
-Cival Servants :people that work for the government and that are paid by tax dollars
-Dilapidated : broken down
-Eons :long periods of time
-Harrison Gray Otis and Harry Chandler : owners of the Los Angeles Times
-Mayor Fred Eation : Mayor of LA in 1905
-Paiute Indians: Native Americans living in Owens Valley
-Rain Shadow : the climate on the dry side of the a mountain range
-Shipped Around the Horn: Cape Horn, the southern tip of South America
-Wampum (P.308): [slang] money
-Omnibus (P.310): a collection in a single, large volume of previously published works, as by a single author or related by a common them, etc.
-Boondoggle (P.315): to do trifling, pointless work
-Extol (P.218): to praise highly; laud
-Vociferously (P.321): making one's feeling known loudly or noisily
-Ballyhoo (P.323): loud;exaggerated, or sensational advertising or propaganda
-Draconian (P.322): extremely severe or cruel
-Avarice (P.336): greed for riches
-Cyclopean (P.356): huge;gigantic; enormous; massive
-Elfin (P.362): tiny, delicate
-Retrograde (P.363): moving or directed backwards; retiring or retreating
-Timorous (P.347): full of or subject to fear; timid
-Primordial (P.362): first in time; existing at or from the beginning
-Execrable (P.371): abominable; detestable
-Dilatory (P.373): causing or tending to cause delay
-Shaly (P.379): to be of or like shale
-Harrumph (P.382): to say something in a disapproving way
-Trona (P.383): a grey-white or yellowish-white mono clinic mineral consisting of a hydrous acid sodium carbonate
-Whipsawed (P.385): subjected to a double market loss through trying inopportunely to recoup a loss by a subsequent short sale of the same security
-Impetus (P.385): a force that causes something (such as a process or activity) to be done or become more active
-Sartorial (P.388): of or relating to clothes
-Rhyolitic (P.390): of or like theodolite
-Assayed (P.421): to have examined and determined characteristics such as weight, measure, or quality
-Centrifugal (P.436): moving away from a center
-Fallow (P.439): of a light yellowish-brown color
-Caprice (P.439): a sudden change
-Osmotic (P.440): of, relating to, or having the properties of osmosis
-Amorphous (P.440): having no definite shape
-Pinstripe (P.444): a vertical stripe on cloth
-Surfeit (P.455): an amount that is too much or more than you need
-Ephemeral (P.457): lasting a very short time