TAE Definitions for Vocabulary
For sentences in Reading About Thomas Alva Edison
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Unit 3
Chapter 7:
platform
boxcar
gravel
grateful
share
operate
tinkered
dispatching
device
freight train
collision
shelter
trousers
Chapter 8:
fired up
surrounded
projects
councilmen
patent
raised area (like a small stage)
train car with sides and roof for carrying freight
(things people buy and sell)
small pieces of rock
thankful
portion; part
manage; make (something) work
worked with; tried to figure out something
sending
a piece of equipment; small machine
train that carries things people buy and sell
crash
place to live and keep warm
pants
protected
investment
ready to do something
had around on all sides
assignments; jobs
elected people for a city or town
formal registered agreement that someone has the
right to make and sell a product
guarded
trying to make more money by buying something
Real estate is an investment; stocks are an
investment.
stock
small pieces of a business
When you buy stock in Xerox, you are buying part
of the Xerox Corporation.
budgets
manufacturing
boasted
plenty
plans for saving and spending money
making something in a factory
bragged; exaggerated about himself
many