tristan swazey
is in 8th grade in South Central. This is his educational blog for the public.
is in 8th grade in South Central. This is his educational blog for the public.
1.allusion- A. A direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art. b. Chosen by Cook himself, she was renamed the " Endeavor," in allusion to the great work which her commander was setting out to achieve. 2.onomatopoeia- A. a figure of speech in which natural sounds are imitated in the sounds of words. b. Because Katie wanted to draw a picture depicting onomatopoeia, she sketched a picture of a lion roaring. 3.alliteration- A. It is a stylistic device in which a number of words, having the same first consonant sound, occur close together in a series. b. These were without rhyme or rhythm, but had alliteration and a parallelism resembling Hebrew poetry. 4.irony- A. A contrast or discrepancy between what is stated and what is really meant, or between what is expected to happen and what actually does happen. b. 5.figurative-noun - A language that communicates meanings beyond the literal meanings of words; words are used to symbolize ideas and concepts they would not otherwise be associated with b Habitually a figurative artist, Singleton is leaning towards abstraction a lot more. 6.Elastic potential energy-The potential energy of an object that is stretched or compressed b 7.Newton-A unit of measure that equals the force required to accelerate 1 kilogram of mass at 1 meter per second per second b.Timber can usually soften and take about 100 kilograms, 1,000 newtons per square centimeter. 8.Force Field-An invisible barrier of exerted strength or impetus. b. As if he lives in a separate element, with a force field of strange and sneaky behaviour all around him, John Egan, as well as being tall. 9.Inertia-(physics) the tendency of a body to maintain is state of rest or uniform motion unless acted upon by an external force b.The great natural forces lie outside us and we are not conscious of them; we call those forces gravitation, inertia, electricity, animal force, and so on, but we are conscious of the force of life in man and we call that freedom. 10.Normal force-A force exerted by one object on another in a direction perpendicular to the surface of contact b. I won the sled race because my sled handle was longer and more horizontal, putting more of my force into accelerating the sled, and less into a normal force serving only to compact the snow. 11.argument-A single assertion or a series of assertions presented and defended by the writer b. Having learned from experiment and argument that a stone falls downwards, a man indubitably believes this and always expects the law that he has learned to be fulfilled. 12.cite-Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source. b. Many would answer this question with a resounding "no," and would cite both history and human nature to support their response. 13.passive voice-The opposite of active voice; in the passive voice something happens to someone: Mordred was bitten by the dog, rather than the active form The dig bit Mordred. b. At dinner, six shrimp were eaten by Harry. 14.personification-A figure of speech in which the author presents or describes concepts, animals, or inanimate objects by endowing them with human attributes or emotions. Personification is used to make these abstractions, animals, or objects appear more vivid to the reader. b. But to Pierre he always remained what he had seemed that first night: an unfathomable, rounded, eternal personification of the spirit of simplicity and truth. 15.point of view-The perspective from which a story is told 16.collaborate-to work with another toward a goal b. He had no way to collaborate with scientists in other places, no Internet, and no library.Read more at 17.articulate-able to speak clearly and expressively 18.evolve-to grow or change over time b. Gompers in his Herkulanische Studies and in contributions to the Vienna Academy (Monatsberichte), has tried to evolve from the fragments more approximation to modern empiricism than they seem to contain. 19.meticulous-Extremely careful about details b. I'm usually so meticulous, and check and re-check all the knots I tie. 20.agile-Able to move quickly and easily b. She is unusually intelligent, charming... and then she is pretty, uncommonly pretty, and agile--she swims and rides splendidly... and her voice! 21.hypotenuse-the side of a right triangle opposite the right angle b. The square of the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares on the sides), may have suggested the strictly analogous problem of doubling a cube. 22converse-to talk or speak; to engage in an exchange of ideas 23.irrational numbers-Numbers that cannot be expressed as a ratio of two integers. Their decimal expansions are non ending and non repeating. b. e, also known as Euler’s number, is another common irrational number. 24.rational numbers-numbers that can be expressed in the form a/b, where a and b are integers and b is not zero 25.square root-a number that produces a specified quantity when multiplied by itself b. The logarithm of a square root is one half the log of the number itself; hence, the natural log of 25 is 3.2189, while the natural log of 5 is 1.6094. 26.accept-to take or receive b. I heartily accept the motto,--"That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. 27.except-exclude; N. exception: objection; exclusion; ADJ. exceptional: unusual; of unusually high quality b. She is very quick-tempered and willful, and nobody, except her brother James, has attempted to control her. 28.affect-Appearance of observable emotions b. This makes a difference of level, at the outside, of six or seven feet; and yet the water shed by the surrounding hills is insignificant in amount, and this overflow must be referred to causes which affect the deep springs. 29.principle-The method of formation, operation, or procedure exhibited in a given instance. b. I write all this to you, dear friend, only to convince you of the Gospel truth which has become for me a principle of life: not a single hair of our heads will fall without His will. 30.effect-A change that is a result or consequence of an action or other cause. b. The sounds, which he had not heard for so long, had an even more pleasurable and exhilarating effect on Rostov than the previous sounds of firing. 31.naive-lacking sophistication lacking sophistication 32.niche- Full range of physical and biological conditions in which an organism lives and the way in which the organism uses those conditions. 33.obliterate to wipe out 34.gratify 35.infinite click for pictures
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