Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Vocabulary Week 9

Accord- to be in agreement or harmony.
Bias- An unfair act or policy stemming from prejudice
Incognito- having one’s identity concealed, as under an assumed name, to avoid notice or formal attentions. (To travel incognito)
Deduct- to take away (a quantity) from another.
Paradigm- systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word
Plagiarize- to take and use ideas, passages from another’s work.
Precipitous- extremely or impassably steep: “Precipitous mountain trails, or wall of rock”
Recapitulate- to review by a brief summary; summarize
Reciprocate- to give, feel, to make a return
Empathy- the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to

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