WG Vocabulary List 21 2025

To support or keep something going over time without exhausting resources.

• Monitor

• Sustain

• Participate

• Link

To take something as true or begin responsibility for something, often without proof.

• Assume

• Sustain

• Monitor

• Participate

To take part in an activity, event, or process.

• Link

• Monitor

• Participate

• Assume

To connect or join two or more things together.

• Monitor

• Link

• Sustain

• Assume

To watch, check, or track something carefully over time.

• Participate

• Link

• Monitor

• Assume

A group of families that share a common ancestor and identity.

• Nuclear family

• Clan

• Habitat

• Indigenous

A family unit made up of parents and their children living together.

• Clan

• Subsistence farming

• Nuclear family

• Carrying capacity

The practice of passing down stories, history, and cultural knowledge by spoken word rather than writing.

• Lingua franca

• Oral tradition

• Indigenous

• Habitat

Farming in which people grow only enough food to feed themselves and their families.

• Overfarming

• Subsistence farming

• Desertification

• Carrying capacity

The process by which fertile land becomes desert, often due to overuse, drought, or poor land management.

• Overfarming

• Desertification

• Habitat

• Poaching