voacb semester 2
Terms
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- oligarchy
- Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
- parabola
- a plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the curve
- photosynthesis
- The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source
- precipitous
- Resembling a precipice; extremely steep
- reciprocal
- Concerning each of two or more persons or things
- omnipotent
- Having unlimited or universal power
- paradigm
- One that serves as a pattern or model
- plagiarize
- To use and pass off (the ideas or writings of another) as one's own
- quasar
- An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.
- reparation
- The act or process of repairing
- orthography
- The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage
- parameter
- One of a set of independent variables that express the coordinates of a point.
- plasma
- Cell-free, sterilized blood plasma, used in transfusions
- quotidian
- Everyday; commonplace
- respiration
- The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing
- oxidize
- To combine with oxygen; make into an oxide
- pecuniary
- Of or relating to money
- polymer
- Any of numerous natural and synthetic compounds of usually high molecular weight consisting of up to millions of repeated linked units, each a relatively light and simple molecule
- recapitulate
- To repeat in concise form
- sanguine
- blood like