Vocabulary

2. Miniaturized video camera that can be connected to a computer to record images or broadcast them live over the Internet
5. The state of great comfort and extravagant living.
9. pursue and kill (a wild animal) for sport or food.
13. The science or practice of farming, including cultivation of the soil for the growing of crops and the rearing of animals to provide food, wool, and other products.
14. a building or room containing collections of books, periodicals, and sometimes films and recorded music for people to read, borrow, or refer to.
17. a person who advocates or acts for the protection and preservation of the environment and wildlife.
19. a novel, play, or movie dealing with a puzzling crime, especially a murder.
20. a statement of an intention to inflict pain, injury, damage, or other hostile action on someone in retribution for something done or not done.

1. an expert in or student of ecology.
3. remove or obliterate (written or printed matter), especially by drawing a line through it.
4. a secret word or phrase that must be used to gain admission to a place.
6. a group consisting of parents and children living together in a household.
7. a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.
8. a person or animal that hunts.
10. make or become smaller or fewer in size, amount, intensity, or degree.
11. exchange (something) for something else, typically as a commercial transaction.
12. a substance that is capable of causing the illness or death of a living organism when introduced or absorbed.
15. a medicine or treatment for a disease or injury.
16. The study of past events, particularly in human affairs.
18. a form of energy resulting from the existence of charged particles (such as electrons or protons), either statically as an accumulation of charge or dynamically as a current.