Unit 2 Vocabulary

to slowly gather or build up

• Accumulate

• Contaminate

to make unclean or unusable by adding a polluting substance

• Contaminate

• Dispose

to get rid of by throwing away or selling; always followed by “of”

• Accumulate

• Dispose

something released or leaked into the world, especially a gas

• Emissions

• Lethal

deadly

• Industry

• Lethal

a particular type of business or manufacturing

• Emissions

• Industry

the way a person makes a living or earns money for basic needs

• Livelihood

• Lethal

poisonous; very unpleasant or harmful

• Contaminate

• Toxic