Vocabulary Words
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Week 1 September 4-7 Week 2 September 10-14 Week 3 September 17-21
Thomas Alva Edison anticipate

seismologist inquire

immobile           aghast    sensible   mimic   

Elizabeth Blackwell       gullible 

fiasco   void   ample   verify      clarify    

Alexander Graham Bell
Week 4 September 24-28 Week 5 Sept. 28-Oct. 9 Week 6 Oct. 15-19  Due Oct. 16

longitude,  prime meridian,   equator,   political boundaries,  latitude,  geographical boundaries,  Greenwich Observatory

Noah Webster  divert    camouflage Gregor Mendel metamorphosis  famished  exertion

paltry    putrid    plummet   vague         dank  Wright Brothers

Week 7 Oct.22-24

 Week 8 Oct.29-Nov.2 Week9Nov.5-9 Week 10 Nov.13-16 Week 11-Nov. 30

gumption exaggerate immerse remnant replica  Bernoulli's Principle/Daniel Bernoulli

Amelia Earhart   scrawl, scanty, indivisible, contrive, deter

 Nicholaus Copernicus   rotation sphere  horizon defenseless       deftly impress   Joseph Lister abstract  significant        probable  perilous Comprehensive Test

Test on Nov. 30
Week 13 Week 14 Week 15 January 4 Week 16 January 7-11 Week 17 January 14 - 18
gaunt winsome tenacious encumbered writhe

Archimedes Principle

 Sir Issaac Newton/ Newton'sLaws punctilious raucous arrogance assuage gesticulating

Philo T. Farnsworth     resolution  agog  antonyms    plateau     era   *eon

Philo T. Farnsworth2

George Washington Carver biology         geology        ecology        cytology       zoology         neurology

smidgen       squander       bamboozle   peeved                      Pierre Auguste Renoir      mishap
Week 18 Week 19

January 28-February 1

 Week    20 Week21-22 Week 22 Week 23
Frederick Douglass         precarious    stimulate      accommodate        zodiac arithmetic disperse    forge(v)    forge(n)    verbatim    dwindle Louis Pasteur  contract(v)       compress   (v)  elude Leonardo da Vinci        hoax        pulverize

Study for Comprehensive Test

 George Eastman          parched           pauper      oust        sulk  gloat Mark Twain raze astonish gorge(n) gorge(v) recite
Week 24             March 17- 21 Week 25              March 31-April 4 Week 26 Week 27 Week 28 Week 29 Week 31

revoke      unrealistic       improbable        Murphy's Law      prior       chaos

cacophony  grotesquely  distraught  apprehensive  abated misdemeanor  felony  Socrates

obstreperous enunciate      stifle    gibberish        nincompoop

George Herman Ruth

 goad(v)     oath  dominion    wryly vex   Sally Ride

thrust    stalk(v)      stalk(n)    dawdle          plume        Albert Einstein

Sacagawea   flawed     complacent        pummel (v)      dreary     taut William Clark     inevitable  taunt buoyant     compensate  amble
Week 30
peninsula       tributary  

Meriwether Lewis  procrastinate     tedious

 

June 11 Final Comprehensive Test