India Vocabulary

WORD BANK : monsoon, outsourcing, scarcity, famine, peninsula, archipelago, interdependence, subcontinent, tsunami, colony

when a company hires outside itself to do work it needs done

WORD BANK : monsoon, outsourcing, scarcity, famine, peninsula, archipelago, interdependence, subcontinent, tsunami, colony

a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country and occupied by people from that country

WORD BANK : monsoon, outsourcing, scarcity, famine, peninsula, archipelago, interdependence, subcontinent, tsunami, colony

when countries rely on each other to buy and sell affordable goods

WORD BANK : monsoon, outsourcing, scarcity, famine, peninsula, archipelago, interdependence, subcontinent, tsunami, colony

when there is not enough to go around; a shortage of some need or want

WORD BANK : monsoon, outsourcing, scarcity, famine, peninsula, archipelago, interdependence, subcontinent, tsunami, colony

when there is such a shortage of food that people are starving to death

WORD BANK : monsoon, outsourcing, scarcity, famine, peninsula, archipelago, interdependence, subcontinent, tsunami, colony

• a group of many islands in a large body of water

WORD BANK : monsoon, outsourcing, scarcity, famine, peninsula, archipelago, interdependence, subcontinent, tsunami, colony

seasonal wind in southern Asia that bring heavy rainfall

WORD BANK : monsoon, outsourcing, scarcity, famine, peninsula, archipelago, interdependence, subcontinent, tsunami, colony

a large ocean wave usually caused by an underwater earthquake or a volcanic explosion

WORD BANK : monsoon, outsourcing, scarcity, famine, peninsula, archipelago, interdependence, subcontinent, tsunami, colony

• A body of land surrounded by water on three sides

WORD BANK : monsoon, outsourcing, scarcity, famine, peninsula, archipelago, interdependence, subcontinent, tsunami, colony

• a large and distinctive landmass (as India or Greenland) that is a distinct part of some continent