Word Up! Words of the Week for 11/16 – 11/20
November 16, 2015
AGGREGATION: n. (person, place, thing, or concept)
- a group or mass of distinct or varied things, persons, etc.
- collection of items, groups, or people into an unorganized whole
- Sentence:
- An aggregation of lobbyists assembled on Capitol Hill to fight the new immigration bill.
COOPERATIVE: adj. (describes a noun or pronoun) [n. (P, P, T, C)]
- (adj.) working together willingly for a common purpose
- (n.) a jointly owned business or or enterprise
- Sentence:
- The students were very cooperative and worked towards implementing the new schedule changes with poise and excitement!
DOMAIN: n. (person, place, thing, or concept)
- a field of of action, thought, or influence
- an area or territory
- (Math) – the set of values assigned to the independent variables of a function 4. all devices and sites sharing a common IP address
- Sentence:
- Deer, coyotes, wolves, and even cougars have been seen encroaching on urban areas thought to be part of the human domain.
ESTATE: n. (person, place, thing, or concept)
- a large piece of landed property usually containing a large home.
- Sentence:
- The Henry Shaw estate, in St. Louis, became Tower Grove Park and the Missouri Botanical Gardens.
MATH Level 3 Power Word of the Week
Polynomial: n. (person, place, thing, or concept)
- a similar expression in more than one variable
- Sample:
- ‘a similar expression in more than one variable’, as in 4X2Y 3 -3XY+5X+7
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