CHECK OUT SOME VOCAB WORDS OF THE WEEK FOR SOME PRACTICE BELOW
| Words of the week! | |
| Latent | Hidden |
| Conspicuous | Visible |
| Binary | 2 parts |
| Caveat | A limitation on an argument |
| Qualify (v) | To put limitations on an argument |
| Ellipsis | Omission in a sentence (***) |
| Cluster | To group |
| Disjoint | Not going together |
| Empirical | From evidence or experiments |
| Deterministic | Process where final state is completely predicted by initial state |
| Extraneous | Extra (not needed) |
| Interpolate | To estimate reasonably |
| Extrapolate | To estimate unreasonably |
| Residual | Left over |
| Skewed | Biased |
| Impartial | Fair |
| Acoustic | Related to sound |
| Embed | To enclose or insert (embed an idea into someone’s mind) |
| Relegate | To put to a lower position |
| Latin Phrases High School Students Should Know | |
| Ex post | After the fact |
| Persona non grata | An unwelcome person |
| Ex ante | Before the fact |
| Carpe diem | Seize the day/of the day |
| A posteriori | Relating to observed facts |
| Dues ex machina | From Gd, Machine |
| Ceteris paribus | Holding all else constant |
| A fortiori | For a stronger reason |
| Habeus corpus | Of the body (a legal requirement that a defendant has a right to a jury) |
| A priori | Known through facts |
| Ante diluvian | Before the flood |
| Ante bellum | Before the war |
| Bona fida | Genuine/real |
| Ante meridiem | Before midday (a.m.) |
| Mea culpa | Through my own fault |
| Vice versa | The other way around |
| E Pluribus Unum | Out of many, one |
| Post meridiem | After midday (p.m.) |
| Veni vidi vici | I came-I saw-I conquered |
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