Vocabulary 4

1. fundamental adj. basic or basis, primary e.g. Even in peaceful times Americans frequently debate fundamental questions about government.
2. sanction noun. Allow, permit or approve e.g. What does the Constitution sanction?
3. numerous adj. a large number of something e.g. During wars, declare or not, Americans argue even more fervently as they often witness government undertaking different and more numerous roles than it undertakes during peacetime.
4. propose verb. plan or suggest something e.g. From the outbreak of World War I in Europe until the signing of the Versailles Treaty, the Wilson administration proposed and implemented an extraordinary number of programs that affected the lives of Americans in their everyday activities.
5. circumstance noun. Situation of something e.g. The Level Act of  1917 represents both the normal working of American government and the extraordinary circumstance of Word War 1.
6. issue verb. publish,  flow out  e.g. With the authority and power granted to him by Congress in the legislation, on August 10, 1917, Present Woodrow Wilson issued Executive Order 2679-A creating the U.S. Food Administration.
7. embrace verb. hug someone, adopt something e.g. By the following week, Americans had embraced wheatless Mondays, meatless Tuesdays, porkless Saturdays.
8. emphasis noun. stress something or make something the first e.g. While Hoover preferred the emphasis on the “spirit of self sacrifice,” he also had authority to coerce.
9. proclaim verb. declare, announce or state e.g. One proclaimed: “Food is Ammunition-Don’t waste it.”
10. coercion noun. force, compel or power e.g. As much as possible, it did so under a banner of volunteerism, rather than coercion.