Zarchive2010Grade8

=Philosophy - Fall 2010= Folks back home, please read this letter: ... 7th-graders you enroll in my grade 8!

**__Weaver Words__**

 * A collection of noteworthy words from actual classes**
 * Word - Definition**
 * swimmingly 8/20/2010- very well
 * equidistant 8/23/2010- equally distant
 * socioeconomic 8/24/2010- of, pertaining to, or signifying the combination or interaction of social and economic factors
 * hyperbolic 8/25/2010- overstated, embellished
 * confiscated 8/26/2010- steal; seize
 * gaggle 8/27/2010- large assembly
 * redundancy 8/31/2010- verbosity
 * demonize 09/01/2010- make into a demon
 * forsaken 09/02/2010- abandon, turn one's back on
 * non-apathetic 09/03/2010- caring, interested
 * fewer 09/07/2010- hardly any
 * legitimizes 09/08/2010- legalize
 * utmost 09/09/2010- extreme, maximum
 * justices 09/10/2010- lawfulness, fairness, supreme court judges
 * ignorant 09/13/2010- unaware, unknowing
 * mob 09/14/2010- large group of people or grouping of kangaroos
 * <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">irrational 09/15/2010- illogical, senseless
 * <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">perwitsky 09/16/2010- the fur of an East European polecat
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">saboteur 09/21/2010- someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">consensus 09/22/2010- general or widespread agreement
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">prodigious 9/23/2010- 1) very big in size or quantity 2) amazing, stupendous, astounding, wondrous, miraculous
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">chauvinistic 9/24/2010- Prejudiced belief in the superiority of one's own gender, group, or kind
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">chivalric/chivalrous 9/24/2010- Characterized by consideration and courtesy, especially toward women.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">generations 9/28/2010- All of the offspring that are at the same stage of descent from a common ancestor
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">deescalate 9/29/2010- To decrease in intensity or magnitude
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">secrecy 9/30/2010- the trait of keeping things secret
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">lamb's ear 10/01/10 (Mrs. M!)- Lamb's ear plants are the common name for Stachys byzantina plants, which are classified as herbaceous perennials
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">genealogy 10/04/10 - the study or investigation of ancestry and family history
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">bioethics 10/05/10- the study of ethical issues raised by research on living beings and the applications of that research.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">advocate 10/06/10- someone who speaks on behalf of another person
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">perspicacious 10/07/10- intensity of judgment or observation
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">kindergarten 10/08/10- a preschool for children age 4 to 6 to prepare them for primary school (German, literally means "children's garden")
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Migrant 10/11/10- traveler who moves from one region or country to another
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">lengthy 10/12/10- long (make sure you pronounce it right)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">vanity 10/13/2010- the trait of being unduly vain and conceited
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">edutainment 10/14/2010- entertainment that is intended to be educational
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">medium 10/15/2010- a person through whom mysterious psychic abilities are alleged to be channeled
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">disheveled 10/20/2010- untidy or unkempt; messy
 * <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">infamous 10/21/2010- known widely and usually unfavorably
 * <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">glib 10/22/2010- marked by lack of intellectual depth
 * haggling 10/25/2010- an instance of intense argument
 * lucid 10/26/2010- transparently clear; easily understandable
 * paradoxical 10/27/2010- seemingly contradictory but nonetheless possibly true
 * escape 11/01/2010- run away from confinement
 * ethnicity 11/02/2010- an ethnic quality or affiliation resulting from racial or cultural ties
 * disallowed 11/03/2010- The action of not allowing, or of withdrawing allowance
 * scuppernong 11/04/2010- *E please just wait to define this one!
 * l <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">ollygag 11/05/2010- Silliness, nonsense; To dawdle
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">regardless 11/08/2010- in spite of everything; without regard to drawbacks
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">wanton 11/09/2010- piddle: waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">relativity 11/10/2010- the quality of being relative and having significance only in relation to something else