Here are the next 10 words from that list.
occur
percent
period
policy
principle
procedure
process
required
research
response
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Vocabulary - Use It Or Lose It (Part 3)
It's another installment of the "Academic Word List" to help improve your vocabulary skills! Please pick one word, look it up in a dictionary, and then post the word & its meaning. Choose a word that has not been picked already by another blogger. (HINT: If you do not have a dictionary, you can use an online one! Try this: http://www.merriam-webster.com.)
Here are the next 10 words from that list.
Here are the next 10 words from that list.
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policy~
1 a:) prudence or wisdom in the management of affairs b: management or procedure based primarily on material interest
2 a:) a definite course or method of action selected from among alternatives and in light of given conditions to guide and determine present and future decisions b: a high-level overall plan embracing the general goals and acceptable procedures especially of a governmental body.
Alicia.T
Principle~
1 a: a comprehensive and fundamental law, doctrine, or assumption b (1): a rule or code of conduct (2): habitual devotion to right principles [a man of principle] c: the laws or facts of nature underlying the working of an artificial device
2: a primary source : origin
3 a: an underlying faculty or endowment [such principles of human nature as greed and curiosity] b: an ingredient (as a chemical) that exhibits or imparts a characteristic quality
Occur-(intransitive verb)
1: to be found or met with
2: to come into existence
3: to come to mind
-Jolene H
research
1: careful or diligent search
2: studious inquiry or examination; especially : investigation or experimentation aimed at the discovery and interpretation of facts, revision of accepted theories or laws in the light of new facts, or practical application of such new or revised theories or laws
3: the collecting of information about a particular subject
Luz Croce
Process~
1.a systematic series of actions directed to some end: a process for homogenizing milk.
2. a continuous action or series of changes taking place in a definite manner: the process of decay.
3. the summons by which a defendant is brought to court.
4. to handle according to a routine procedure.
Required
1 To claim or ask for by right and authority barchaic : request
2 To call for as suitable or appropriate
b: to demand as necessary or essential : have a compelling need for
3: to impose a compulsion or command
4: chiefly British : to feel or be obliged
percent
A proportion in relation to a whole (which is usually the amount per hundred).
Indira H.
My word is :
Period, it is defined as,
1. The completion of a cycle, a series of events, or a single action.
2. The point used to mark the end.
SHENEA WALKER
Sandra H.
Procedure-
A particular way of accomplishing something or of acting.
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