Module 4/5 Vocab

1. the production of large quantities of a standardized article by an automated mechanical process.
5. a feeling of reassurance and relaxation following release from anxiety or distress.
8. a person who advocates or promotes anarchism or anarchy.
9. government spending, in excess of revenue, of funds raised by borrowing rather than from taxation.
11. (of a structure) fall down or in; give way.
16. a series of workers and machines in a factory by which a succession of identical items is progressively assembled.
20. an investor purchases assets, like stocks, using a loan from their broker, which is secured by eligible securities

2. the protection or promotion of the interests of consumers.
3. a proposed action to increase the number of judges on a court, especially the Supreme Court, to shift its ideological balance and gain favorable decisions for particular policies or goals.
4. an informal conversation.
6. (in the 1920s) a fashionable young woman intent on enjoying herself and flouting conventional standards of behavior.
7. the edge or border of something.
10. the action of forbidding something, especially by law.
12. (during Prohibition) an illicit liquor store or nightclub.
13. a sum of money due as one of several equal payments for something, spread over an agreed period of time.
14. a policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries.
15. a mass withdrawal of funds by many customers simultaneously, triggered by rumors or fears that a bank is facing insolvency.
17. the forming of a theory or conjecture without firm evidence.
18. a tax imposed by a government on imported goods that are brought into the country.
19. the ability of a customer to obtain goods or services before payment, based on the trust that payment will be made in the future.