Vocabulary List #1

1. Design - to prepare a drawing showing how something is to be made

2. Invent - to make or design something that did not exist before
3. Industrial – related to or used in trade or manufacture
4. Scope - the area within limits of a question or subject
5. Innovate - to introduce a new process or way of doing something
6. Architect - a person who plans new buildings and sees that they are built properly
7. Compass - the range or scope of something
8. Smelting - the heating and melting of ore to obtain the metal it contains
9. Revolution - a complete or drastic change
10. Technique - a method of doing or performing something
11. Flint - a piece of hard stone or metal used to produce sparks
12. Conquer - to overcome something with an effort
13. Engineering - the use of science and technology to build engines and other machines
14. Control - the power to make people do things or to make things happen
15. Sanitation - the use of means for protecting public health, especially by the removal and
treatment of waste
16. Fields - a branch of knowledge or activities
17. Etchings - to engrave a picture on a metal plate by scratching the design through a layer
of waste
18. Domestic - to do with the home or household
19. Charcoal - a black substance used in drawing and made by burning wood slowly in an
oven with little air
20. Anti – biotic - medicine that destroys bacteria or prevents growth
21. Wheelbarrow - an open container for moving small loads, with a with beneath one end,
and two straight handles and legs at the other end
22. Influence - to have an effect on someone
23. Converted - to change from one form of use to another
24. Commerce - trade and the services that assist trading
25. Alloy - a metal made by mixing other metals or by mixing a metal and another substance