Unit 7 Vocabulary

What is the definition of 'grueling'?

• a reason to do something

• difficult or exhausting

• to do something that hasn't been done before

• more than enough

What does it mean when someone 'sets a record'

• to do something that hasn't been done before

• to have more than enough

• people's children and grandchildren

• to wander or travel

What is the definition of 'tycoons'?

• to be kept away from other people or things

• to stretch across a large continent

• someone who does something that hasn't been done before

• business people who make a lot of money

What is the definition of 'roamed'?

• kept away from other people or things

• something that is terribly harmful

• to wander or travel freely

• people's children and grandchildren

What is the definition of 'incentive'?

• a reward or reason to do something

• gathering or hiring people for a job

• telling what you know under oath

• something that is terribly harmful

What does it mean to 'testify'?

• there is more than enough of something

• to tell what you know under oath

• stretching across a large continent

• wander or travel freely

What is the definition of 'transcontinental'?

• to be extremely small

• kept away from other people or things

• people's children and grandchildren

• stretching across a whole continent

What is the definition of 'isolated'?

• to be surrounded by people

• kept away from other people or things

• to have more than enough of something

• something that is terribly harmful

What is the definiton of 'recruiting'?

• hiring people for a job

• kept away from other people or things

• something that is terribly harmful

• a reward for doing something

What are 'descendants'?

• a reward for doing something

• gathering or hiring people

• to do something that hasn't been done before

• people's children and grandchildren