Week 18 GLADIATOR WORD OF THE DAY
Week 18
GLADIATOR WORD OF THE DAY
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GRAPHIC ORGANIZER
LANGUAGE ARTS/READING Monday, January 4, 2016
Word of the Day:
aus·pi·cious Definition: [ôˈspiSHəs] adjective • conducive to success; favorable. • giving or being a sign of future success. • (archaic) characterized by success;
prosperous.
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MATH Tuesday, January 5, 2016
Check out Louis Davis’s “Concave Convex Rule”.
Word of the Day:
con·cave Definition: [känˈkāv] adjective • having an outline or surface that curves inward like
the interior of a circle or sphere.
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SOCIAL STUDIES Wednesday, January 6, 2016
Word of the Day:
ol·i·gar·chy Definition: [ˈäləˌɡärkē] noun • a small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution. • a country governed by an oligarchy. • government by oligarchy.
Catholics 4Bernie ‘s “Bernie Sanders to Janet Yellen: Are We an Oligarchy? 5/7/2014)”
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SCIENCE Thursday, January 28, 2016
Word of the Day:
re·ca·pit·u·late Definition: [ˌrēkəˈpiCHəˌlāt] verb • summarize and state again the main
points of. • (BIOLOGY) repeat (an evolutionary or
other process) during development and growth.
Check out Google’s’ “Google - Year In Search 2015”
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ACADEMY OF LAW STUDIES Friday, January 8, 2016
Word of the Day:
no·ta·rize Definition: [ˈnōdəˌrīz] verb • have (a document) legalized by a notary.
Check out Notary Public Center, CNSA Los Angeles’s Commercial,“How to Notarize: Everything You Need to Know About Notarizing Your Document”.
Week 19
GLADIATOR WORD OF THE DAY
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GRAPHIC ORGANIZER
LANGUAGE ARTS/READING Monday, January 11, 2016
Word of the Day:
lex·i·con Definition: [ˈleksiˌkän,] noun • the vocabulary of a person, language, or
branch of knowledge. • a dictionary, especially of Greek, Hebrew,
Syriac, or Arabic.
Check out PBS’s “The Lexicon of Sustainability | The Story of an Egg | PBS”.
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MATH Tuesday, January 12, 2016
Word of the Day:
de·riv·a·tive Definition: [dəˈrivədiv,] adjective • (typically of an artist or work of art) imitative of the work of another person, and usually disapproved of for that reason. • (noun) something that is based on another source. • (MATH) A function which gives the slope of a curve; that is, the slope of
the line tangent to a function. The derivative of a function f at a point x is commonly written f '(x). For example, if f(x) = x3 then f '(x) = 3x2. The slope of the tangent line when x = 5 is f '(x) = 3·52 = 75.
Math Meeting’s “Derivatives Calculus”.
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SOCIAL STUDIES Wednesday, January 13, 2016
Word of the Day:
rep·a·ra·tion Definition: [ˌrepəˈrāSH(ə)n] noun • the making of amends for a wrong one has done, by paying money to or otherwise helping those who have been wronged. • (ARCHAIC) the action of repairing something.
Check out Channel 4 News’ “Should Britain pay reparations to Jamaica?”
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SCIENCE Thursday, January 14, 2016
Word of the Day:
ther·mo·dy·nam·ics Definition: [ˌTHərmōdīˈnamiks] noun • the branch of physical science that deals with the relations between heat and other forms of energy (such as mechanical, electrical, or chemical energy), and, by extension, of the relationships between all forms of energy.
Check out Laws of Thermodynamics
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ADADEMY OF ARTS &
Friday, January 15, 2016 ENTERTAINMENT
Word of the Day:
so·lil·o·quy Definition: [səˈliləkwē] noun • an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud
when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play.
• a part of a play involving a soliloquy.
Check out “Your A Good Man Charlie Brown Lunch Time.”
Week 20
GLADIATOR WORD OF THE DAY
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GRAPHIC ORGANIZER
LANGUAGE ARTS/READING Tuesday, January 19, 2016
Word of the Day:
pla·gia·rism Definition: [ˈplājəˌrizəm] noun • the practice of taking someone else's
work or ideas and passing them off as one's own.
Check out WriteCheckVideo’s “10 Types of Plagiarism”
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SOCIAL STUDIES Wednesday, January 20, 2016
Word of the Day:
u·surp Definition: [yoo͞ˈsərp] verb • take (a position of power or importance)
illegally or by force. • take the place of (someone in a position of
power) illegally: supplant. • (ARCHAIC) encroach or infringe upon (someone's rights).
Check tingoEd.com’s “TingoEd Vocab Video - USURP”
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SCIENCE Thursday, January 21, 2016
Word of the Day:
qua·sar Definition: [ˈkwāˌzär] noun • (ASTRONOMY) a massive and extremely remote celestial object, emitting exceptionally large amounts of energy, and typically having a starlike image in a telescope. It has been suggested that quasars contain massive black holes and may represent a stage in the evolution of some galaxies.
Check Connor Hughes’ “Most Powerful Quasar Discovered _ Video”
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ACADEMY OF FINANCE Friday, January 22, 2016
Word of the Day:
fi·du·ci·ar·y Definition: [fəˈdoo͞SHēˌerē,-SHərē] adjective • involving trust, especially with regard to the relationship between a trustee and a beneficiary. • (noun) a trustee.
Check out Paddy Hirsch’s “Defining fiduciary”.
Week 21
GLADIATOR WORD OF THE DAY
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LANGUAGE ARTS/READING Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Word of the Day:
jux·ta·po·si·tion Definition: [ˌjəkstəpəˈziSH(ə)n] noun • Juxtaposition is a literary technique in
which two or more ideas, places, characters and their actions are placed side by side in a narrative or a poem for the purpose of developing comparisons and contrasts.
Check Henry Aronson’s “Juxtaposition: Part 1 - Visual images »
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SOCIAL STUDIES Wednesday, January 27, 2016
Word of the Day:
dra·co·ni·an Definition: [drəˈkōnēən] adjective • (of laws or their application) excessively harsh and severe.
Check out Schmoop’s “SAT Reading: Define Draconian”.
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SCIENCE Thursday, January 7, 2016
Word of the Day:
tec·ton·ic Definition: [tekˈtänik] adjective • (GEOLOGY) of or relating to the
structure of the earth's crust and the large-scale processes that take place within it.
• of or relating to building or construction.
Check out ScienceWars“Plate Tectonics in action”.
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ACADEMY OF BIOMEDICAL Friday, January 29 2016
Word of the Day:
res·pi·ra·tion Definition: [ˌrespəˈrāSH(ə)n] noun • the action of breathing. • (MEDICINE) a single breath. plural noun: respirations • (BIOLOGY) a process in living organisms involving the production of
energy, typically with the intake of oxygen and the release of carbon dioxide from the oxidation of complex organic substances.
Check out CrashCourse’s “ATP & Respiration: Crash Course Biology #7”