- Fauna (adj) animal life in an area
- Flora (noun) plant life in an area
- Food Web (noun) many food chains put together to show how energy flows through the ecosystem
- Food chain (noun) the order in which animals feed on plants and other animals (shows how energy flows from producer to consumer to decomposer)
- Population (noun) all members of one species that live in one area
- Predator (noun) animal that hunts, kills and eats other animals
- Predator (noun) animal that's hunter, killed and eaten by predator
- Producer (noun) organism that makes own food
- Primary consumer (noun) animals that eat primary producers / herbivores
- Secondary consumer (noun) animals that eat primary consumers / carnivores / omnivores
- Tertiary consumer (noun) carnivore at the top of a food chain feeds on other carnivores (secondary consumers)
3/27/17 - Ecology Vocab #2
- Decomposers (noun) an organism, such as bacteria or fungus, that breaks down dead matter and returns the nutrients to the soil
- Estuary (noun) body of water where fresh water and salt water ecosystems merge (where river merges with ocean)
- Habitat (noun) place or surroundings where an organism normally lives
- Herbivores (noun) an organism that only eats plants (vores = one that eats)
- Host (noun) living organism on which a parasite lives
- Limiting factor (noun) something in environment that keeps population of organism from increasing
- Niche (noun) The habitat that supplies everything needed for a species to survive
- Omnivores (noun) consumer that eats plants and meat
- Parasite (noun) organism that lives off of a host (another organism)
3/6/17 - Ecology Vocab
- Ecology (noun) the study of how living things interact with one another and their environment (eco = environment, ology = study of something)
- Ecosystem (noun) all of the living and non-living things in an area and their interactions with each other (system = parts working together)
- Abiotic factor (noun) the part of the ecosystem that is not alive and has never been alive (ex: weather is part of ecosystem but not living part)
- Biotic factor (noun) the part of an ecosystem that is alive (ex: trees, insects, animals)
- Adaptation (noun) a characteristic that helps an organism survive in its environment (ex: cactus has an adaptation of being able to store water to help it survive)
- Biome (noun) a plant and animal community that covers a large part of Earth (aquatic biome = ocean that covers 80% of Earth)
- Detritivore (noun) organism (as an earthworm or fungus) that feeds on dead and decomposing organic matter
- Community (noun) a group of organisms living together in a certain area
- Consumers (noun) an organism that survives by eating producers or other consumers in the ecosystem. (ex: Koala eats eucalyptus)
- Carnivore (noun) organism that only eats meat (ex: lion, jaguar, etc)
- Deforestation (verb) the cutting down and clearing of forest land- will usually lead to increased soil erosion in the area
2/7/17 - SAT Vocabulary #7
1. Superfluous (adj) being more than sufficient or required; excessive, unnecessary, needless (way too much of something)
2. Annihilate (verb) to destroy completely or absolutely
3. Castigate (verb) to punish
4. Deviate (verb) to take a different course or route
5. Fastidious (adj) hard to please
6. Pliable (adj) easily bent; or flexible
7. Jovial (adj) merry, good temperament or disposition
8. Mutilate (verb) to disfigure
9. Persist (verb) to continue, and push forward even with obstacles
10. Regenerate (verb) reproduce, regrow, heal
11. Scholastic (adj) pertaining to education and schools
12. Subside (verb) to relapse into a state of reposed and tranquility (returning to a condition where one is relaxed and calmed after an event)
13. Translucent (adj) anything that allows the passage of light (opposite of opaque)
14. Visage (noun) the face, countenance or look of a person
15. Cunning (noun) skill employed in a shrewd or sly matter as in deceiving (a skill that makes someone when employed to be sly or deceptive)
1/17/17 - Vocabulary for Sonnets #1
These words were taken from Sonnets 18 and 116
1. Temperate: (adj) describes mild or moderate weather; not extreme, comfortable weather
2. Lease: (noun) a period of temporary ownership (like leasing a car for three years
3. Complexion: (noun) the skin and features of the face
4. Declines: (verb) to move in a downward direction, usually seen as a negative thing
5. Untrimmed: (adj) anything made or left plain, unadorned or disorderly (in Shakespeare it is often about someone's appearance)
6. Impediments: (noun) things that block or get in the way, obstacles, can be physical or metaphorical
7. Alters: (verb) to make different without completely changing
8. Tempest: (noun) strong severe storm, in Shakespeare it could be talking about a physical storm, but can also be an emotional stormy state
9. Bark: (noun) small boat
10. Compass: (noun) range expressed in curve or circular pattern, ex. beyond compass of cell reception.
11. Internal Rhyme: (noun) a rhyme involving a word in the middle of the line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next. Ex: "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary"
12. Alliteration: (noun) a stylistic device in which a number of words, having the same first consonant sound, occur close together in a series. Ex: "Whisper Words of Wisdom, Let it be" "Let it Be" by the Beatles
13. Personification: (noun) a figure of speech in which a thing, an idea or an animal is given human attributes, qualities, characteristics, or abilities. Ex: The fire swallowed the entire forest
14. Assonance: (noun) takes place when two or more words close to one another repeat the same vowel sound but start with different consonant sounds. Ex: I feel depressed and restless
15. Theme: (noun) a main idea or an underlying meaning of a literary work that may be started directly or indirectly. Ex: Love and friendship are frequently occurring themes in literature. They generate emotional twists and turns in a narrative and can lead to a variety of endings: happy, sad or bittersweet.
1/12/17 - SAT Vocab #6
Video Notes:
- Abominate: (verb) to hate violently
- Anecdote: (noun) a brief account of something interesting, a short story
- Candid: (adj) straightforward
- Deterrent: (adj) hindering from action through fear, stopping someone from doing something because there is a consequence
- Fallible: (adj) capable of erring or errors
- Incite: (verb) to rouse to a particular action, ex. rallies
- Jargon: (noun) confused, unintelligible speech or highly technical speech, ex. yolo
- Muddle: (verb) to confuse or becloud
- Perpetuate: (verb) to preserve from extinction or oblivion
- Refute: (verb) to prove to be wrong, like a rebuttal
- Scarcity: (noun) insufficient of supply for needs or ordinary demands
- Subservient: (adj) servile, obsessively submissive or humbly obedient
- Transient: (noun) one who is only of temporary existence, synonym for homeless
- Virtual: (adj) being in essence or effect, but not in form or appearance, ex. not real in actuality
- Efflorescence: (noun) state of flowering and blooming,
Context Clues:
- Abominate: Disaster, destroy, ruin
- Anecdote: Memory, Idea, story
- Candid: Private, Special
- Deterrent: Obstacle, Something in the way
- Fallible: Prone to mishaps, clumsy
- Incite: Spark, Start, Ignite
- Jargon: Slang, way of speaking
- Muddle: Confusion, Wondering
- Perpetuate: Teach, Suggest, Show
- Refute: Prove
- Scarcity: Having a shortage of something
- Subservient: prone to, predisposed, related
- Transient: limited
- Virtual: essential
- Efflorescence: Shiny, sparkly, glow
11/20/16 - SAT Vocab #4
Predictions:
- Aberration: a back road, plan B
- Acrid: awful, putrid, disgusting
- Ambiguous: big, strong, vague
- Breach: failure, breaking rule
- Despondent: lonesome, depressed, sad
- Excerpt: small part of a text
- Indignant: defensive, cocky, overprotective
- Morality: sense to know good from bad, conscience
- Patronize: judge, mock
- Rectify: understand, come to a conclusion, decipher
- Satiate: provide, quench
- Terse: vague, small, incomplete
- Transcend: go beyond, surpass, break barriers
- Vigilant: strong, strict
- Whimsical: from a fairy tale, happy
Notes:
- Aberration:(noun) deviation from a right, customary or prescribed course
- Acrid: (adj) sharp, pungent smell
- Ambiguous: (adj) having a double meaning
- Breach: (noun) the violation of an official duty, a lawful right, or a legal observation
- Despondent: (adj) disheartened
- Excerpt: (noun) extract or selection from written or printed matter
- Indignant: (adj) having such anger and scorn as is aroused by some meanness or wickedness (Ariel from the little mermaid feeling indignant due to the wickedness from the sea witch)
- Morality: (noun) virtue, moral
- Patronize: (verb) to exercise an arrogant condescension towards (treating as though far less important)
- Rectify: (verb) to correct
- Satiate: (verb) to satisfy fully the desire of something
- Terse: (adj) concise, to the point, quick, sharp (text message ex: "K")
- Transcend: (verb) to surpass, to go beyond or above (move beyond situation or problem by mentally relaxing & transcending)
- Vigilant: (adj) being on alert to ward off danger or protect something (police, soldiers)
- Whimsical: (adj) given to fanciful ideas or notions; capricious (acts on their whims, sudden desires, change of mind, spontaneous)
11/3/16 - SAT Vocab #3
Predictions:
- Abduction: To take, steal, kidnap, capture
- Altruism: generousness, selflessness, sharing
- Bravado: brave, courageous, intelligent
- Exacerbate: worsen, to make bigger
- Fallacy: mistake, bad call, misjudgment
- Inconceivable: unbelievable, impossible
- Irk: annoy, rub the wrong way, bother
- Monotonous: annoying, tiresome, boring
- Pastoral: farming, wild
- Recoil: spring back, bounce back, jump
- Sagacious: determined
- Subjugate: scare, persuade, intimidate
- Tranquil: peaceful, calming
- Vicarious: Lovely, active, lively
- Capricious: random, confusing, surprising
- Abduction (noun) carrying away of a person against their will
- Altruism (noun) benevolence to others on subordination to self-interest
- Bravado (noun) aggressive display of boldness (brave, but foolish)
- Exacerbate (verb) to make more sharp, severe or virulent
- Fallacy (noun) any unsound or delusional reasoning
- Inconceivable (adj) incomprehensible
- Irk: To bother or annoy
- Monotonous (adj) unchanging, tedious, always the same
- Pastoral (adj) having the spirit or sentiment of rural life (pasture: fields, country)
- Recoil (verb) to start back, jump back, startled, loathing or dread
- Sagacious (adj) able to discern and distinguish with wise perception (wise, religious icons)
- Subjugate: To defeat and gain control of by using force
- Tranquil (adj) calm
- Vicariously (adverb) experiencing something through another person(Ex. Living vicariously through a writer who wrote of an adventure)
- Capricious (adj) anything that is subject to or led by sudden, unpredictable, changes or whims (Ex. Capricious friend comes up with ideas at random etc.)
9/15/16 - Omnivore's Dilemma Vocabulary #2
Predictions:
- Atavistic: Powerful
- Cornucopia: Abundance of something
- Intrepid: Curious, Daring
- Omnivore: An organism that eats both animals and plants
- Distinction: Differences
- Terrestrial: A place where there is earth or ground
- Anthropologist: Someone who studies cultures.
- Predisposes: A first impression, automatically assume
- Prodigious: Instinctual
- Existential: Deep thoughts about human existence
- Inevitable: Unavoidable
- Unassailable: Unbelievable, Shocking, Unfathomable
- Paradox: A never ending loop, a problem with no solution
- Quaintly: Slightly, Convenient
- Apotheosis: Constant Change.
- Atavistic (adj) relating to or characterized by returning to something ancient
- Cornucopia (noun) a horn containing food/drink, a symbol of abundance
- Intrepid (adj) resolutely fearless; dauntless
- Omnivore (noun) someone or something that eats both plants and animals
- Distinction (noun) recognizing or noting of diferences
- Terrestrial (adj) pertaining to or representing the earth as distinct from other planets; of or relating to land as distinct from water
- Anthropologist (noun) a person who specializes in the study of human beings
- Predisposes (verb) to give an inclination or tendency to beforehand
- Prodigious (adj) extraordinary in size; marvelous
- Existential (adj) pertaining to the state of existing or being
- Inevitable (adj) unable to be avoided or escaped
- Unassailable (adj) not attacked or assaulted
- Paradox (noun) a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory, but in reality expresses a possible truth
- Quaintly (adj) having an old-fashioned attractiveness or charm
- Apotheosis (noun) the elevation or exaltation of a person to the rank of a god
Here are my predictions based on the context clues that were given to me:
Context Clues
Then I watched a video that explained the actual definitions of each word and I then took cornell notes on the video:
SAT Vocab 1
9/8/16 - Omnivore's Dilemma Vocabulary #1
- Immerse (verb) to involve deeply, absorb
- Forage (verb) to wander or go in search of provisions
- Alchemy (noun) transmutation of the base metals into gold; the discovery of a universal cure for disease
- Conscious (adj) fully aware of or sensitive to something
- Karmic (noun) bringing upon oneself inevitable results, either in reincarnation or this life
- Ingenuity (noun) quality of being cleverly inventive or resourceful
- Folly (noun) state or quality of being foolish; lack of understanding.
- Confinement (noun) kept in; prevented from leaving; state of being confined
- Unprecedented (adj) without previous instance; unexampled or unparalleled
- Fauna (noun) animals of a given region or period considered as a whole
- Opaque (adj) hard to understand; not clear
- Ignorance (noun) state or fact of being ignorant
- Fleeting (adj,) passing swiftly, vanishing quickly
- Stake (noun) monetary or commercial interest, investment, share, or involvement in something as in hope of gain
- Agriculture (noun) science, art of occupation concerned with cultivating land, raising crops, etc. Example: farming
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