STRUCT Words and Definitions construction what is built; buildings that are created or produced destruction the act of taking down or destroying something that was built infrastructure the parts of the city on which the rest of the city was built around: roads, communication, transportation, and schools instruct to build knowledge instructor a person who helps someone build knowledge misconstrue to build the wrong meaning; to misunderstand; to interpret the wrong way obstruction something that blocks the way of things being created or built; something in the way reconstruct to build again substructure the base, support, or foundation of a building superstructure something built on top of something else; the part of the building that was built on top of the foundation or base