Vocabulary: End of Year Review - Part A

a physical weight or an emotional load

• beacon

• burden

• barren

• urban

escape from capture

• exclude

• evolve

• elude

• extinct

something that gets in your way

• objective

• verdict

• remote

• obstacle

not enough of something

• meager

• minute

• manipulate

• miniature

a goal or purpose

• objective

• allegiance

• improvise

• obstacle

not the same as others; unique

• abundant

• diligent

• distinct

• extinct

to purposely leave something out ; to reject

• extinct

• elude

• exclude

• extract

having to do with the city

• rural

• remote

• diversity

• urban

far out of the way; distant

• reluctant

• retrieve

• majority

• remote

to grow and care for

• cultivate

• concise

• confront

• contaminate