Saturday, February 21, 2009

Vocabulary

In a notebook or folder, make a list of these vocabulary items.

From the first week

  1. analysis (see my example from the previous vocabulary posting)
  2. anatomy
  3. atom
  4. cell
  5. dynamics
  6. embryo
  7. galaxy
  8. hydro-
  9. immune
  10. laser
  11. mathematics
  12. mineral
  13. molecule
  14. nuclear
  15. organic
  16. petro-
  17. plasma
  18. quantum physics
  19. soil
  20. solar
  21. static
  22. taxonomy
  23. toxic
  24. volcano
From the second week

  1. subsequently
  2. established
  3. genre
  4. novella
  5. inhuman
  6. chilling
  7. warn
  8. decades
From the third week

  1. prediction
  2. skeleton
  3. conflict
  4. paranoid
  5. introspection/introspective
From the fourth week onwards

  1. disturbed/disturbing (as in "I was disturbed by this story")
  2. prologue
  3. skim (as in reading)
  4. skepticism/skeptic/skeptical
  5. psychic
  6. neutral
  7. clue
  8. scan (as in reading)
  9. pursue
  10. "hope springs eternal"
  11. increase
  12. decrease
  13. to level off
  14. pseudo-
  15. probability
  16. paranormal
  17. (printing) press
  18. detect
  19. prove
  20. disprove
  21. invisible
  22. immortality
  23. concentration camp
  24. meditation/meditate
  25. retrospective
  26. altered state of consciousness
  27. hypnosis/hypnotize
  28. duplicate
  29. consciousness
  30. hallucination
  31. near-death experience
  32. compelling
  33. dismissed
  34. tunnel
  35. italics
  36. to go out of one's way to (do something)
  37. verify
  38. witch
  39. evolution
  40. holocaust
  41. racism

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