January Word of the Day

1. Week 18
GLADIATOR
WORD OF THE DAY

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3. LANGUAGE ARTS/READING
Monday,January4,2016
Word of the Day:
aus·pi·cious
Definition: [ôˈspiSHəs] adjective
• conducive to success; favorable.
• giving or being a sign of future success.
• (archaic) characterized by success;
prosperous.

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5. MATH
Tuesday,January5,2016
Check out Louis Davis’s “Concave Convex Rule”.
Word of the Day:
con·cave
Definition: [känˈkāv] adjective
• having an outline or surface that curves inward like
the interior of a circle or sphere.

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7. SOCIAL STUDIES
Wednesday,January6,2016
Word of the Day:
ol·i·gar·chy
Definition: [ˈäləˌɡärkē] noun
• a small group of people having
control of a country, organization, or institution.
• a country governed by an oligarchy.
• government by oligarchy.
Catholics 4Bernie ‘s “Bernie Sanders to Janet Yellen:
Are We an Oligarchy? 5/7/2014)”

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9. SCIENCE
Thursday,January28,2016
Word of the Day:
re·ca·pit·u·late
Definition: [ˌrēkəˈpiCHəˌlāt] verb
• summarize and state again the main
points of.
• (BIOLOGY) repeat (an evolutionary or
other process) during development and
growth.
Check out Google’s’ “Google - Year In Search 2015”

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11. ACADEMY OF LAW STUDIES
Friday,January8,2016
Word of the Day:
no·ta·rize
Definition: [ˈnōdəˌrīz] verb
• have (a document) legalized by a notary.
Check out Notary Public Center, CNSA Los Angeles’s
Commercial,“How to Notarize: Everything You Need to
Know About Notarizing Your Document”.

12. Week 19
GLADIATOR
WORD OF THE DAY

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14. LANGUAGE ARTS/READING
Monday,January11,2016
Word of the Day:
lex·i·con
Definition: [ˈleksiˌkän,] noun
• the vocabulary of a person, language, or
branch of knowledge.
• a dictionary, especially of Greek, Hebrew,
Syriac, or Arabic.
Check out PBS’s “The Lexicon of Sustainability | The Story
of an Egg | PBS”.

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16. MATH
Tuesday,January12,2016
Word of the Day:
de·riv·a·tive
Definition: [dəˈrivədiv,] adjective
• (typically of an artist or work of art)
imitative of the work of another person, and usually disapproved of for
that reason.
• (noun) something that is based on another source.
• (MATH) A function which gives the slope of a curve; that is, the slope of
the line tangent to a function. The derivative of a function f at a point x is
commonly written f '(x). For example, if f(x) = x3 then f '(x) = 3x2. The
slope of the tangent line when x = 5 is f '(x) = 3·52 = 75.
Math Meeting’s “Derivatives Calculus”.

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18. SOCIAL STUDIES
Wednesday,January13,2016
Word of the Day:
rep·a·ra·tion
Definition: [ˌrepəˈrāSH(ə)n] noun
• the making of amends for a wrong
one has done, by paying money to or otherwise
helping those who have been wronged.
• (ARCHAIC) the action of repairing something.
Check out Channel 4 News’ “Should Britain pay
reparations to Jamaica?”

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20. SCIENCE
Thursday,January14,2016
Word of the Day:
ther·mo·dy·nam·ics
Definition: [ˌTHərmōdīˈnamiks] noun
• the branch of physical science that deals
with the relations between heat and other
forms of energy (such as mechanical,
electrical, or chemical energy), and, by
extension, of the relationships between all forms of energy.
Check out Laws of Thermodynamics

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22. ADADEMYOFARTS&
Friday,January15,2016
ENTERTAINMENT
Word of the Day:
so·lil·o·quy
Definition: [səˈliləkwē] noun
• an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud
when by oneself or regardless of any
hearers, especially by a character in a
play.
• a part of a play involving a soliloquy.
Check out “Your A Good Man Charlie Brown Lunch Time.”

23. Week 20
GLADIATOR
WORD OF THE DAY

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25. LANGUAGE ARTS/READING
Tuesday,January19,2016
Word of the Day:
pla·gia·rism
Definition: [ˈplājəˌrizəm] noun
• the practice of taking someone else's
work or ideas and passing them off as
one's own.
Check out WriteCheckVideo’s “10 Types of Plagiarism”

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27. SOCIAL STUDIES
Wednesday,January20,2016
Word of the Day:
u·surp
Definition: [yo͞oˈsərp] verb
• take (a position of power or importance)
illegally or by force.
• take the place of (someone in a position of
power) illegally: supplant.
• (ARCHAIC) encroach or infringe upon
(someone's rights).
Check tingoEd.com’s “TingoEd Vocab Video - USURP”

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29. SCIENCE
Thursday,January21,2016
Word of the Day:
qua·sar
Definition: [ˈkwāˌzär] noun
• (ASTRONOMY) a massive and
extremely remote celestial object,
emitting exceptionally large amounts of energy, and typically
having a starlike image in a telescope. It has been suggested
that quasars contain massive black holes and may represent a
stage in the evolution of some galaxies.
Check Connor Hughes’ “Most Powerful Quasar
Discovered _ Video”

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31. ACADEMY OF FINANCE
Friday,January22,2016
Word of the Day:
fi·du·ci·ar·y
Definition: [fəˈdo͞oSHēˌerē,-SHərē]
adjective
• involving trust, especially with
regard to the relationship between
a trustee and a beneficiary.
• (noun) a trustee.
Check out Paddy Hirsch’s “Defining fiduciary”.

32. Week 21
GLADIATOR
WORD OF THE DAY

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34. LANGUAGE ARTS/READING
Tuesday,January26,2016
Word of the Day:
jux·ta·po·si·tion
Definition: [ˌjəkstəpəˈziSH(ə)n] noun
• Juxtaposition is a literary technique in
which two or more ideas, places,
characters and their actions are placed
side by side in a narrative or a poem
for the purpose of developing
comparisons and contrasts.
Check Henry Aronson’s “Juxtaposition: Part 1 - Visual
images »

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36. SOCIAL STUDIES
Wednesday,January27,2016
Word of the Day:
dra·co·ni·an
Definition: [drəˈkōnēən] adjective
• (of laws or their application)
excessively harsh and severe.
Check out Schmoop’s “SAT Reading: Define Draconian”.

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38. SCIENCE
Thursday,January7,2016
Word of the Day:
tec·ton·ic
Definition: [tekˈtänik] adjective
• (GEOLOGY) of or relating to the
structure of the earth's crust and the
large-scale processes that take place
within it.
• of or relating to building or construction.
Check out ScienceWars“Plate Tectonics in action”.

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40. ACADEMY OF BIOMEDICAL
Friday,January292016
Word of the Day:
res·pi·ra·tion
Definition: [ˌrespəˈrāSH(ə)n] noun
• the action of breathing.
• (MEDICINE) a single breath.
plural noun: respirations
• (BIOLOGY) a process in living organisms involving the production of
energy, typically with the intake of oxygen and the release of carbon
dioxide from the oxidation of complex organic substances.
Check out CrashCourse’s “ATP & Respiration: Crash Course
Biology #7”