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List of Words for Letter 'T'

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• tanning a method of scraping and soaking animal skins to make leather
• tax money people pay to the government so that it can perform public services
• temperature a measurement of how hot or cold something is, often the air
• tenant farmer a farmer who works land owned by someone else and pays rent in either cash or shares of the crops
• tenement a crowded, poorly maintained apartment building
• terrorism using violence or fear to achieve a political goal
• time line a diagram that shows a series of events in the order in which they happened
• tolerance accepting of differences
• toll a small fee people pay to use a canal, road or bridge
• tow path a path that ran along the side of a canal
• trading post a place to trade products with others
• traitor someone who acts against his or her own country
• treaty a formal agreement between nations
• Triangle Trade a name for the trade routes that ran from Africa to the islands of the Caribbean and then to the American colonies
• tributary a small river that flows into a larger river