precinct	mail
ten years	decade
modern	fashionable
confronted with	faced with
to stimulate	to fire up
the way one earns one's money	livelihood
influence	impact
rivalry	competition
exactly suitable	aptly
to give up	to abandon
to be a sign of something coming	to herald
to win back	to recoup
choosing the best by seeing small differences	discriminating
very popular fashion	craze
target	goal
in accordance and agreement with the established rules, values and customs	conformist
guesses	surmises
mostly/mainly	predominantly
different	mixed
likely to cause argument	contentious
people working in factories and industry generally	workface
incomplete	patchy
sex	gender
related to a racial, national or tribal group	ethnic
to make the parts of a whole evenly spread	to homogenise
stated more strongly without wasting any words	pithier
being able to keep something	retention
delicate/hardly noticeable	cautious
obedience	compliance