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11-12 Academic Vocab
GHHS Academic Vocabuary by grade level
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| advocate/advocacy | one who supports a cause or person; the act of supporting a cause or person |
| aesthetic | pleasing in appearance, appreciative of, responsive to or appreciative of what is pleasurable to the senses |
| ambiguity/ambiguous | having more than one interpretation; unclear; undefined |
| articulation/articulate | clear expression of ideas; to speak or write clearly or effectively; to connect small pieces together; to be an effective speaker |
| assumption | assuming that something is true; a fact or statement taken for granted; the taking over of another's debts |
| bias/biased | prejudice or personal preference; a tendency or inclination; on an angle |
| civil | of or relating to the people who live in a country; of or relating to the regular business of the people in a city, town, state, etc.not connected to the military or to a religion; polite but not friendly |
| concede | to say that you accept or do not deny the truth or existence of (something); to admit that you have been defeated and stop trying to win |
| connotation | an idea or quality that a word makes you think about in addition to its meaning |
| contest | to make (something) the subject of an argument or a legal case: to say that you do not agree or accept |
| credibility/credible | believable; reliable; supported with sufficient evidence |
| denotation | the literal meaning of a word or phrase |
| discrepancy | a difference between two things that should be the same; a divergence or difference from the expected result |
| dissent | disagreement; divergence from accepted beliefs |
| effective | producing a result that is wanted : having an intended effect |
| evaluation/evaluate | an opinion about a subject’s worth; to judge the value of someone or something; to solve (math) |
| fallacy | a false or mistaken idea; the quality of being wrong |
| formal register | speech or writing that avoids colloquialisms (slang, swearing) and contractions, uses subject-specific vocabulary, and (usually) uses third-person pronouns |
| imply/implication | to suggest or express indirectly (in speech or writing); a suggestion or hinted meaning, not directly stated |
| infer/inference | to conclude or guess; something that is not directly stated |
| integrate/integration | to make something a part of another larger thing; finding a function whose differential is known; the operation of solving a differential equation; incorporation as equals into society or an organization of individuals of different groups |
| interact/interaction | to talk or do things with other people; mutual action or influence |
| irony | the use of words that mean the opposite of what you really think especially in order to be funny |
| poignant | causing a strong feeling of sadness; being to the point |
| power | the ability or right to control people or things; legal or official authority, capacity, or right; the number of times as indicated by an exponent that a number occurs as a factor in a product; a source or means of supplying energy |
| premise | a statement or idea that is accepted as being true and that is used as the basis of an argument; premises : a building and the area of land that it is on |
| quantitative | of or relating to how much there is of something : of or relating to the quantity or amount of something |
| refute/rebut | to counter the argument made by another; to disprove an argument using evidence |
| reliable | able to be trusted to do or provide what is needed; able to be relied on; able to be believed; likely to be true or correct |
| rhetoric | the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, which often involves appeals to logic (logos), character (ethos), or emotion (pathos), as well as figurative language and other compositional techniques |
| scrutinize/scrutiny | to read or look at very closely and carefully; to analyze thoroughly |
| sarcasm | the use of words that mean the opposite of what you really want to say especially in order to insult someone, to show irritation, or to be funny |
| scrutiny | the act of carefully examining something especially in a critical way : the act of scrutinizing something |
| seminal | having a strong influence on ideas, works, events, etc., that come later; very important and influential |
| style | a particular way in which something is done, written, created, or performed; a particular form or design of something |
| syntax | the structure of written and oral communication; the format through which information is conveyed (can include sentence types, simple versus compound or complex sentences, etc.) |
| synthesis/synthesize | the combination of ideas to form a theory or system; to combine information from various sources in order to make an argument; to combine simpler materials to make a more complex compound using a chemical reaction |
| understatement | to say that (something) is smaller, less important, etc., than it really is |
| value | the amount of money that something is worth : usefulness or importance |
| voice | the ability to speak; the ability to sing; the power or ability to produce musical tones ; wish, choice, or opinion openly or formally expressed; an instrument or medium of expression |
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