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Life Without Gravity
Vocabulary Practice
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Manned | When a vehicle or piece of equipment is manned, it is used or operated. |
| Spines | The backbones of humans and animals |
| Feeble | weak |
| Blander | Something that is blander lacks excitement of flavor |
| Globules | Tiny round drops of liquid |
| Readapted | If you have changed your behavior again in order to get into a new situation, you have readapted to it. |
| Micro-Gravity | State of near weightlessness that astronauts experience as their spacecraft orbits the earth. |
| downright | thoroughly, utterly |
| stuffy | having nasal passages stopped up |
| tissue | the material forming plant or animal cells |
| Percent | a hundredth part |
| Weightlessness | being without apparent weight, as a freely falling body or a body acted upon by a force that neutralizes gravitation. |
| Unexpected | unanticipated, something that happens as a surprise |
| Overcome | to master or prevail |
| Disks | Layers of connective tissue, in the spine |