Academic Vocabulary-Grade 8

Language Arts-Grade 8

advertisements

articulation

character foil

citation

closing argument

coherence

comedy

debate

diction

elaboration

episode

evidence (support)

fluency

hyperbole

irony-dramatic

juxtaposition

literary symbolism

memoirs

parallel structure

point of view:

   -limited omniscient

   -omniscient

  -objective

reader's interpretation

rebuttal

sophisticated opening

summation (closing)

technical writing

thesis

tone

tragedy

understatement

verb conjugation

works cited

Mathematics-Grade 8

box-and-whisker plot

combining like terms

cube root

dep. event

evalution

expanded form

    (algebraic)

exponential decay

factored form      

    (algebraic)

growth factor

hypotenuse

independent event

inverse property

irrational numbers

like terms

measure of central

   tendency

mutually exclusive events

parabola

Pythagorean theorem

quadratic expression

real numbers

repeating decimals

scientific notation

square root

standard form

term

termination decimals

tessellation

transversal

x-intercept

y-intercept

Science-Grade 8

acceleration

amplitude

atomic structure

atomic theory

chemical changes

chemical reactions

compounds

compression

covalent bonds

DNA

electricity

electro magnetic spectrum

element

frequency

genetics

heredity

heterogeneous

homogeneous

ionic bonds

magnetism

meiosis

mixture

oxidation

physical changes

Punnett square

rarefaction

RNA

static

velocity

wavelength

Social Studies-Grade 8

American West

apartheid

capitalism

cold war

commercialization

communism

conservation

conservatism

equal opportunity

ethnic groups/conflict

fascism

feminism

foreign policy

Harlem Renaissance

holocaust/genocide

imperialism

inflation

isolationism

Korean War

labor movements

Marshal Plan

McCarthyism

melting pot

NATO

New Deal

Peoples Republic/China

Progressive Era

Russian Revolution

Segregation

standard of living

trade balance

Treaty of Versailles

Truman Doctrine

United Nations

Vietnam War

women's suffrage

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