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September 30, 2008

Vocabularies of the Day - Sept. 30, 2008

1. Impacted
- Placed in the alveolus in a manner prohibiting eruption into a normal position.
- Wedged or packed in

2. Subsidy
- (also known as a subvention)
- In economics, is a form of financial assistance paid to a business or economic sector

3. Steep
- making a large angle with the plane of the horizon3
- mounting or falling precipitously
- being or characterized by a rapid and intensive decline or increase4

4. Recession
- the act or action of receding : withdrawal
- a departing procession (as of clergy and choir at the end of a church service)
- a period of reduced economic activity

5. Curtail
- to make less by
- as if by cutting off or away some part

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