201385597 | libertine | a free thinker, usually used disparagingly; one without moral restraint | |
201385598 | incumbent | currently holding an office | |
201385599 | expenditures | Government spending of revenues. Major areas of federal spending are social services and national defense. | |
201385600 | altruistic | unselfish, concerned with the welfare of others | |
201385601 | bonanza | a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money) | |
201385602 | aphrodisiac | a drug or other agent that stimulates sexual desire | |
201385603 | fiat | an official order | |
201385604 | laissez | Faire-Leave the economy alone; no government interference | |
201385605 | innovation | the act of starting something for the first time | |
201385606 | juxtaposition | a side-by-side position | |
201385607 | proliferated | to increase rapidly in size | |
201385608 | reciprocity | mutual exchange of commercial or other privileges | |
201385609 | pragmatism | the attribute of accepting the facts of life and favoring practicality and literal truth | |
201385610 | diaspora | the dispersion or spreading of something that was originally localized (as a people or language or culture) | |
201385611 | itinerant | traveling from place to place to work | |
201385612 | littoral | the region of the shore of a lake or sea or ocean | |
201385613 | bourgeois | a member of the middle class | |
201385614 | nepotistic | show favoritism, especially to relatives | |
201385615 | annexation | the formal act of acquiring something (especially territory) by conquest or occupation | |
201385616 | monetary | relating to or involving money | |
201385617 | burgeoning | expanding or growing rapidly | |
201385618 | cartaz | A license issued by the Portuguese that permitted non-Portuguese traders to operate in areas of the Indian Ocean controlled by the Portuguese. | |
201385619 | pochteca | special merchant class in Aztec society; specialized in long-distance trade in luxury items | |
201385620 | aborigines | The original of earliest known inhabitants of a country. | |
201385621 | tariff | a government tax on imports or exports | |
201385622 | arbitragers | traders who help to keep states' currencies in balance through their speculative efforts to buy large quanities of devalued currencies and sell them in countries where they are valued more highly | |
201385623 | conglomerate | collect or gather | |
201385624 | fluitschip | ship made by the dutch that could be sailed by a much smaller crew | |
201385625 | entrepots | Trading stations at the borders between communities, which made change possible among many different partners. Long-distance traders could also replenish their supplies at these stations. | |
201385626 | seringueiros | rubber tree tappers | |
201385627 | standardization | Process of developing uniform procedures for administering and scoring a test and for establishing norms | |
201385628 | pochteca | Aztec merchants. Extremely wealthy. Had a huge quantity of material goods etc. But explicitly forbidden to take part in political hierarchy so as not to throw off the balance of power | |
201385629 | sinocentrism | a national policy of the Ming Dynasty wherein economic self sufficiency, freedom from foreign influence and preservation of all things asian | |
201385630 | absenteeism | habitual absence from work | |
201402317 | polygot | speaking several languages |
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