I'd like to ask vocabularis in the two sentences below.
1. Abandoning small extended-family households to move into these large pueblos with dozens if not hundreds of other people was probably tramatic.

what does the "households" mean here? means family? and what kind of scale of people are the "dozens".

2. Population growth is an influential push.
what does the push mean here?

3. To suggest any worsening of conditions would have significant consequences.
Does this "any worsening" mean that for example there are four kinds of worsening of conditions: worsening A,B,C, and D, any one of them would have significant consequences?or this means certain worsening of conditions or particular worsening of conditions has significant consequences?

Thank you!SORRY! Three sentences....

Question

I'd like to ask vocabularis  in the two sentences below.
1. Abandoning small extended-family households to move into these large pueblos with dozens if not hundreds of other people was probably tramatic.

what does the "households" mean here? means family? and what kind of scale of people are the "dozens".

2. Population growth is an influential push. 
what does the push mean here?

3. To suggest any worsening of conditions would have significant consequences.
Does this "any worsening" mean that for example there are four kinds of worsening of conditions: worsening A,B,C, and D, any one of them would have significant consequences?or this means certain worsening of conditions or particular worsening of conditions has significant consequences?

Thank you!SORRY! Three sentences....

Answer

1. Households - all the people a house would hold. Typically a family, but perhaps with grandparents, or pets included

1 dozen = 12. Therefore these people are being counted in multiples of 12. 12 is a less common number of counting, but many things are sold by the dozen. 1 dozen eggs, 1 dozen roses, a half dozen bread rolls.

2. it means 'a push' as an agent or cause for change.

3. It means that conditions (in general) are bad. If any of them become worse, this will have bad consequences. It is not specific. In context. The family live in poor housing, with no heating, no water, no food. If conditions become worse (perhaps a new condition, such as illness) the family will be in even worse problems. It is just a general statement, a warning that there is little or no tolerance for the situation to become worse.

Answer

1. Yes, you are right, households here suggests family units, and the word dozens here, refers to groups of 12 as 12 is literally one dozen.
2. Push here, means, " mover" or thing that moves something.
3. You are right again, it means that any sort of worsening conditions, Not a certain condition.

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