Academic Support 2016-17 Vocabulary Flashcards

What means to plan and do something?

Conduct

What means something that can be observed but is hard to explain?

Phenomenon

What means to get better than something else?

Surpass

What means to change something so it is the same in many situations?

Standardize

What means to begin to use?

Adopt

To make sure something happened.

Confirm

Known and admired by many people for a special skill.

Renown

A feeling or like or dislike towards a person or a group of people.
Usually a feeling about race, gender, sex or religion.

Prejudice

Unfair treatment.

Injustice

To prepare and produce. Usually something written like a paper,
magazine or book.

Publish

To record information. To put your name on an official list.

register

To go somewhere with someone or someone.

accompany

To make something easier.

facilitate

To go in different directions. To spread apart.

disperse

Having a large amount of space.

Spacious

A tool to measure the degrees in an angle.

Protractor

An angle that measures less than 90 degrees.

Acute Angle

An angle that measures 90 degrees.

Right Angle

An angle that measures more than 90 degrees.

Obtuse Angle

An angle that measures 180 degrees.

Straight Angle

Two angles that total 90 degrees.

Complementary Angles

Two angles that total 180 degrees.

Supplementary Angles

Two adjacent angles that form a line.

Linear Pair

Opposite angles that form a line.

Vertical Angles

The same measure.

Congruent


Lacking
reasoned though and responsibility.

Insane


Not thinking of
consequences; irrational.

Demented

Someone who is silly, strange, or goofy.

Loony

Emotionally stable, able to make
rational decisions.

Balanced


Sensible and
fair to others

Reasonable


Someone with
the ability to find solutions

Insightful.


Someone who
is odd or has
unusual habits.

Eccentric

Very small size or amount, almost nonexistent (not there)

Scant

Extremely tiny or small, or very exact information.

Minute

Very small, tiny.

Diminutive

Enough, as much as you need.

Sufficient

More than enough to make you satisfied, big/large amount of something.

Ample

A lot, very large amounts or quantity.

Copious

An extremely large amount, much more than is needed.

Exorbitant

To be the first to create or develop ideas or methods.

Pioneer

To connect or control things to use something for a specific job.

Harness

To make rules to control something.

Regulate

Across, to the other side, to change form or move.

Trans--

To make lots of something using machines.

Manufacture

Made, used or connected to factories, the people who work in them,
and the things they make.

Industrial