Sentence:  These differences in turn result from the fact that my Yokuts vocabularies were <WSD>built</WSD> up of terms selected mainly to insure unambiguity of English meaning between illiterate informants and myself , within a compact and uniform territorial area , but that Hoijer 's vocabulary is based on Swadesh 's second glottochronological list which aims at eliminating all items which might be culturally or geographically determined . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  enlarge, develop, or increase by degrees or in stages