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Week #2 Vocabulary
SAT Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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Proportional | a relationship between two connected amounts, factors or quantities in which an increase in one causes an increase in the other. |
Nostalgia | a sentimental longing or affection for the past |
Anecdote | a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person |
Trial | a specific experiment or set of experiments within a larger context |
Hypothesis | a tentative theory about the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that, if true, would explain certain facts or phenomena |
Complement | a thing that completes or brings to perfection a larger whole |
Imminent | about to happen |
Engross | absorb all the attention or interest of |
Orient | align or position something relative to a known point or landmark |
Paradox | an idea that, despite sound reasoning from acceptable premises, leads to a conclusion that seems senseless, logically unacceptable, or self-contradictory |