Tuesday, February 16, 2010

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.
occur
percent

period

policy

principle
procedure
process

required

research

response

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

Procedure
1. An act or a manner of proceeding in a way action or process.
2. A particular course or mode of action.
3. Any given mode of conducting legal, parliamentary, or other business, esp. litigation and judicial proceedings.

KByfield

Anonymous said...

Policy
1.Prudence or wisdom in the management of affairs.
2.Management or procedure based primarily on material interest.


April S.

Anonymous said...

Word-Occur

Definition-
1) To be found or met with : appear

2) To come into existence : happen

3) To come to mind

Lia Muth

Anonymous said...

Principle
1.A comprehensive and fundamental law, doctrine, or assumption.
2. A rule or conduct.

Angela Richardson

Angela B said...

Process

b : something going on
1) : a natural phenomenon marked by gradual changes that lead toward a particular result
2) : a continuing natural or biological activity or function b : a series of actions or operations conducing to an end; especially : a continuous operation or treatment

Anonymous said...

word: Research, defined as-

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


SHENEA WALKER

Anonymous said...

percent:

1. one one-hundredth part 1/100
2. that bear an indicated rate of interest.

Melissa Lobsinger

Anonymous said...

Word: process

Meaning: a series of actions directed toward a specific aim, a series of natural occurrences that produce change or development.

Deidra W.

Anonymous said...

Response

an answer or reply, as in words or in some action.


CWillis

Anonymous said...

Required
1.To have need of.
2.To order to do something.
3.To call for as necessary or indispensable;demand
4.To place under an obligation.


Dorothea M

Anonymous said...

Percent
In the hundred or in each hundred

Mianta

Anonymous said...

Occur: to happen or come about, or to come into somebody’s mind.

February 22, 2010

Roxana Alvarez

Anonymous said...

Period
1) the completion of a cycle, a series of events, or a single action : conclusion
2) a : the full pause with which the utterance of a sentence closes b : end, stop
3)obsolete : goal, purpose
4) a : one of the divisions of the academic day b : one of the divisions of the playing time of a game

Verona