Test 4 Passage 3: Environmental practices of big businesses

practice

• shareholder, owner, investor
• habit, custom, way, method
• call, name, label
• happen, occur, appear

business

• company, corporation, organization
• in a way that causes little or no damage to the environment and therefore able to continue for a long time
• a profit-making organization or business makes a profit
• someone who works in politics, especially an elected member of the government

shape

• compound, multifaceted #simple
• annoyed, irritated, angry #calm
• strategy, rule, procedure, program
• influence, affect, form

fundamental

• basic, primary, elementary
• at a time that is far away in the future
• use, apply, utilize
• anxious, worried

offend

• include, comprise, contain
• agreement, deal
• additional, extra, supplementary #less
• to seem bad or unacceptable to someone

sense of

• a feeling about something
• to make a legal claim against someone, especially for money, because they have harmed you in some way
• obey, submit #disobey
• the system of people and things that are involved in getting a product from the place where it is made to the person who buys it

justice

• use, apply, utilize
• way, method
• fairness in the way people are treated
• announce, assert, state, proclaim

depend on

• mineworker, coalminer
• increase, expand, raise #minimize
• someone who works in politics, especially an elected member of the government
• rely on, count on #mistrust

circumstance

• least, smallest, lowest #maximum
• buy, acquire #sell
• context, situation, condition
• to give someone official or legal authority, or the freedom or confidence to do something

maximize

• increase, expand, raise #minimize
• happen, occur, appear
• influential, controlling, dominant
• accountable, legally responsible