Viewpoints 3 - Who Made Your T-Shirt?

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• mainstream 'normal', accepted by most people
• centrepiece main attraction/part
• ruthless cruel, without regard for others
• raucous loud and unpleasant
• certitude certainty, confidence
• maze labyrinth
• clarity clearness
• stymie (informal) prevent, stop
• mill type of factory
• backlash strong reaction to a change
• lump together put into the same group
• survey (here) look at
• carnage massacer, destruction
• ragtag (informal) untidy, unorganized
• obstructionist person who intentionally stops or slows an official process
• squarely directly
• salvation rescue, being saved
• oppressed held/kept down (by a higher power)
• survey investigation, investigate
• virtually almost
• sound bite short, interesting quote
• stall delay
• downturn reduction in (economic) activity
• revival reopening, restart
• gruel simple food made of grain and water or milk
• unionize become a member of a trade union
• sharecropper (AmE) farmer who rents land and gives part of his/her crop as rent
• embedded fixed, a set part
• mechanization using machines instead of doing things by hand
• shred bit, small piece
• assume take on, accept
• symbiotic close and mutually beneficial
• virtuous circle a continual process of good actions producing good results
• prospect possibility
• interlocking firmly joined together
• yarn thick thread (here of cotton)
• sensory connected to our senses
• clatter continuous loud noise
• emit send out
• smother restrict, choke, suffocate
• flurry sudden light fall of something (e.g. snow)
• incidence number of times something happens
• musty stale, not fresh (smell)
• cotton gin machine for separating cotton from its seeds
• conjure up bring to mind
• assembly joining together
• coil twist in a series of rings
• speckled spotted, dotted
• plexiglas (AmE trademark) strong transparent plastic
• tuft clump
• card (here) comb (cotton)
• gossamer very thin thread
• mound pile up
• spindle pointed object on which thread is wound
• spool rounded object on which thread is would
• bobbin rounded object on which thread is wound
• put a toe in the water try out
• quota a fixed (required) amount
• disdain sneer at, look down on
• inefficiency ineffectiveness, disorganization
• incentive thing to motivate/ encourage someone
• subsidze fund, support
• shoddy badly made
• quintuple become five times bigger
• days were numbered soon to disappear
• folds (here) loosely hanging pieces
• saw tool for cutting wood or metal
• ferry transport, carry
• apparel (AmE) clothes
• obsessive thinking/doing something too much
• recess (AmE) break
• stern strict, harsh

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