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Life Without Gravity
Vocabulary Practice
Term | Definition |
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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 |