November Word Discovery Quiz
Use this to study for the November Word Discovery Quiz that will be on 11/21/08 in Language Arts.
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- Incumbent
- The official who holds an office.
- Morpheme
- The smallest unit of a word (prefix/suffix/root).
- Resistor
- A device designed to introduce resistance into an electric circuit.
- Square Root
- A number that, when squared, yields a given number. For example, since 5 × 5 = 25, the square root of 25 (written √25) is 5.
- Current
- The amount of electric charge flowing past a specified circuit point per unit time.
- Fallacy
- A deceptive, misleading, or false belief that is often used in advertising as a technique to persuade the audience into doing or buying something.
- Propaganda
- Information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.
- Slogan
- A catchy phrase that advertisers use to grab the attention of the public.
- Slander
- A malicious, false, and defamatory statement or report.
- Precedent
- A legal decision or form of proceeding serving as an authoritative rule or pattern in future similar cases.
- Libel
- Malicious defamation by written or printed words, pictures, or in any form other than by spoken words or gestures.
- Conductor
- A substance, body, or device that readily conducts heat, electricity, sound, etc.
- Embargo
- An order of a government prohibiting the movement of merchant ships into or out of its ports.
- Conjecture
- Inference or judgment based on inconclusive or incomplete evidence; guesswork.
- Ohm's Law
- The law that measures resistance by omega.
- Partisan
- One-sided, committed to a party, biased or prejudiced.
- Hypotenuse
- The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle (longest side).
- Theoretical Probabilities
- The ratio of the number of ways the event can occur to the total number of possibilities in the sample space (the way it should happen).
- Circuit
- The complete path of an electric current.
- Media
- A means of communication (such as radio and television, newspapers, and magazines) that reach or influence people widely.
- Experimental Probabilities
- The ratio of the number of times the event occurs to the total number of trials (actually conduct an experiement).
- Right Triangle
- A triangle where the right angle is across from the hypotenuse and the legs form the right angle.