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19.2 Vocab!

25. Stream: a small river

26. Village: a small city

27. Valuable: something that has a high price

28. Attempt: to try

29. Pipe: a long tube that transports water and oil

30. Refinery: a factory to purify oil

31. Appear: show up

32. Oil well: a place where oil comes out from a pipe

33. Risky: dangerous

34. Refine: to make clean; purify

35. Kerosene: oil used in lamps

36. Gasoline: oil used in cars

37. Giant: very large, HUGE

38. drilling: digging underground using a machine

39. local: inside the city or neighborhood محلي

40. corporation: a large company owned by stockholders شركة

41. stockholders: men and women who own a corporation and put their money into it مالك الأسهم

42. simple: easy way of doing something بسيط

43. criticize: to say bad things about انتقد

44. critic: a person who criticizes

45. monopoly: a large corporation that has little competition

46. competition: to compete between two or more people

47. Invest: to put money in a company for profit

48. liability: risk or danger

49. capital: money that stockholders use to invest in a company

50. stock: the value of a company

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