7th Vocabulary Entry

1. Convenient
    - something easy to do

2. Scapegoat
    - someone who is assigned the blame or to take the fall for something.

3. Buffer
    - someone who helps people get along who are argumentative with each other.

4. Paved
    - to be the top surface or covering of

5. Grasslands
    - an area that is dominated by grass or grasslike vegetation.

6. Gullies
    - a channel or hollow worn by running water; small, narrow ravine

7. Drainage
    - that which is drained off

8. Mother Nature
    - the power or force that seems to regulate the physical universe

9. Widespread
    - widely extended

10. Destruction
      - the tearing down or dismantling or killing of something

11. Foreseen
      - to see beforehand; know beforehand; foreknow

12. Legitimate
      - within the rules, correct or accepted as proper

13. Meteorite
      - large meteoroid that falls to the surface of a planet or moon

14. Wiped out
      - overwhelmed, exhilarated, awed, etc.

15. Man-made
      - something that was created by humans.

16. Accurately
      - careful and exact

17. Short-sighted
      - lacking foresight