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8th Grade Voc. (3)
3rd nine weeks vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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headstrong | stubborn; determined to have your own way |
blighted | to damage something or to suffer from being damaged |
tedium | having the quality of being boring |
noxious | harmful to living things |
tangent | a line that intersects a curve at a single point; to go off the original path |
primary | important; essential; happened first |
rescind | to end something like a law, contract, or agreement |
absolution | the act of forgiving someone for doing something wrong |
plausible | believable; possibly true |
focal | having central importance; the focus of something |
corps | a group of people involved in an activity; usually military group ex. Civilian Conservation Corps in Depression Era, pronounced "core" |
diffuse | to spread out; not concentrated in one area |
infamy | known for being evil; "a day which will live in infamy" (Pearl Harbor Speech) |
spectrum | complete range of colors in light, complete range of a type of wave, complete range of opinions |
continuous | to keep going; not stop |
congruent | having the same size and shape (math); matching or in agreement with something |
rational | a number that you can express as a fraction (math); to be reasonable |
sonar | device used to find things underwater using sound waves |
abstain | to choose not to do something |
reprieve | to delay something terrible like a punishment, closing of something, destruction of something |