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Science vocab
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Adjacent | Having a common endpoint or border; next to |
| Approach | To move or become near or nearer to something or someone |
| Assert | To state something in a strong and definite way |
| Assume | To think that something is true or probably true without knowing for sure that its true |
| Chapter | One of the main parts of the book |
| Complicated | Complex, intricate |
| Comprehend | To grasp of understand the nature, significance, of meaning of something |
| Concept | An idea of what something is or how it works |
| Consist | Top be composed or made up of |
| Consult | To talk about something with someone in order to make a decison |
| Contribute | To give something, such as money, goods, it time to help a person, group, to cause, or organization |
| Criterion/Criteria | Something thais is used tras a raeason for makinjg a jugementr or decison |
| Define | To explain the meaning of a word, or phrase, etc |
| Derive | To have something as a source; to come from something |
| Devote | to commit by a solemn act |
| Distort | To change the natural, normal, or original shape, appearance, or sound of something in a way that is usually not attractive or pleasing |
| Empirical | Originating in or based on observation or experience |
| Environment | Conditions that surround someone or something that influence or affect the growth, health, progress, etc., Of someone or something |
| Establish | To cause someone or something to be widely known and accepted |
| Feasible | Possible to do |
| Formulate | To put into a systematized statement or expression |
| Guarantee | To make a promise that what ever you are selling, doing, etc., is what you say it is |
| Ignore | To refuse to show that you hear or see something or someone |
| Implicit | Understood even though its not clearly stated |
| Individual | Of, relating to, or existing as just one member or part of a larger group |
| Intense | Having or showing a characteristic in extreme degree |
| Involve | To have or include someone or something as a part of something |
| Magnitude | The size, extent, or importance of something |
| Mathematics | The science and relationships between numbers, quantities, shapes |
| Modfiy | To change some part of something while not changing other parts |
| Obtain | To gain or attain usually by planned action or effort |
| Passive | Acted upon by an external agency; receptive to outside impersonations or influences |
| Pertinent | Relating to the thing that being thought about to discussed |
| Portion | A part of something that is shared with other people |
| Precede | To be, go, or come ahead or in front of |
| Prime | The earliest stage; the chief or best individual or part |
| Publish | To produce or release for distribution |
| Range | A series of numbers including the highest and the lowest possible amounts |
| Respective | Belonging or relating to have one of the people or thing that have been mentioned |
| Role | A part that someone or something has in a particular activity or situation |
| Select | Chosen from a group to include the best people or things |
| Shift | To move or to cause something or someone to move to a different place, position, etc. |
| Simultaneous | Happening, existing or occurring at the same time; exact coincidence |
| Specify | To name or state explicitly |
| Status | The position or rank of someone or something when compared to theirs in a society, organization, group etc. |
| Suffice | To be or provide as much as needed |
| Technique | A way of doing something by using special knowledge or skill |
| Theory | An idea or set of ideas that is intended to explain facts or events |
| Transmit | To send information , sound, etc. In the form of electrical signals to a radio, television, computer, etc |
| Usage | The way in which words and phrases are actually used (as a particular form or sense) in a language community; a noun of use |
| Verbal | Of relating to, or consisting of words |