Vocabulary Set 3.

Today's vocabulary set is from an article talking about the mobile home in U.S..

1. quasi /ˋkwesaɪ/ (a)
• resembling; seeming; virtual; 準
• quasi-homelessness
2. rural /ˋrʊrəl/ (a)
• of, relating to the country life; 田園的
• rural America
3. solicit /səˋlɪsɪt/ (v.t.)
• to seek for something by entreaty; 
• He solicited aid from minister.
4. earnest /ˋɝnɪst/ (adj.)
• seriously in intention; 真誠的
• entreaty means "earnest request"
5. entreaty /ɪn`tritɪ/ (adj.)
• earnest request
• to seek for aid by entreaty (aid is uncountable)
6. tout /taʊt/ (v.t.)
• To solicit business, employment, votes, or the like importunately.
• Owning a manufactured home (often also known as a "mobile home") in a rural trailer park is often touted to these families as an affordable "next best thing"—and a step toward conventional homeownership.
• In the above sentence, the meaning of `touted` is similar to `sold`
7. decline /dɪklaɪn/ (v)
8. vulnerable /`vʌlnərəb!/ (adj) (`l` 不發音)
• capable to being wounded or hurt; 易受傷的, vuln 是古英文的 wound
9. serfdom /`sɝfdəm/ (n)
• 農奴身份, serf 是農奴, Hsinchu Code Serf
• Owning a mobile home but renting the land it stands on in a trailer park amounts to "a kind of serfdom"
10. mercy /`mɝsɪ/ (n)
• 慈悲
11. recourse /rɪ`kors/ (n)
• a source of helps in a difficult situation
• "Being landless leaves trailer owners at the park landlord's mercy," explains Salamon. "Because the park is private property, the owners have little recourse if they're evicted."
12. evict /ɪˈvɪkt/ (v)
• To expel a person from a land; 從某地驅逐