Public Schools of Robeson County Eighth Grade Literary Glossary

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1 Eighth Grade Literary Glossary adjacent extravagance pawn broker alder exuberant prairies antique focus proportional apex formulated rebuke articulate grotesque remarkably astuteness gully serenity bewilderment inconceivable supplement buffet inducement sway cavity intangible triumphant conservative intuition twilight contrasting irrelevance vacancy curiosity melancholy whimsical deprecate memorandum wistful dishonor nonchalant withered eligible nucleus evident obsolete 1

2 Eighth Grade Social Studies Word List abolitionism acid rain affirmative action agriculture amend ancestors annex antebellum anthropologist Antifederalist Anti-Saloon League Appalachian Regional Commission appeal apprentice arbitrator archaeologist armistice Articles of Confederation artifacts artisan assembly atlas attorney general auditor baby boomers backcountry barter bicameral bill bill of rights black code black power blockade blockade running boll weevil bond borough town boycott bright leaf tobacco budget busing cabinet capes capital carpetbagger cash crop caucus cavalry census century chain gang city commission civil rights Civil Rights Act of 1964 clan coalition coastal plain collective bargaining colony commerce commissioner of agriculture commissioner of insurance commissioner of labor committee committees of correspondence commodity commute compromise Compromise of 1850 computer Confederate States of America confiscate conquistador conservation Conservative party conservatives consolidated school constitution constitutionalism continental shelf cooperative corporation corporation commission council council-manager form court of appeals credit crisis Culpeper s Rebellion culture current Declaration of Independence Declaration of Rights Democratic party denomination depression deserter dialect dictator discrimination disfranchise dissenters district court diversified draft draft resister driver drought duty elevation emancipate Emancipation Proclamation embargo environment evolution executive branch expedition export extremist fall line farmers alliance farmers union fauna federal system federalist felony fine arts flora food stamps 2

3 free state free suffrage freedmen freedmen s bureau French and Indian War frontier fundamentalists furniture industry fusionist general assembly gentry geography ghetto governor grandfather clause Granville District Great Revival Great Wagon Road Halifax Resolves headright home rule House of Representatives hurricane hydroelectric illiterate immigrate immunity impeachment imports indentured servant industrialization inlets Inner Coastal Plain integration Intercoastal Waterway internal improvements interstate highways ironclads joint-stock company judicial branch judiciary jurisdiction jury Kansas-Nebraska Act Kirk-Holden War Ku Klux Klan labor union land grant latitude legislative branch lieutenant governor livestock longitude Lords Proprietors Loyalist maize majority malatto martial law mass production mayor-council form Mecklenburg Resolves mediate Medicaid microelectronics middleman militia minimum wage mint misdemeanor Missouri Compromise monarch Moral Majority Mountains municipality naval stores navigable neutral New Deal Northwest Passage nullify Outer Banks overseer pacifist partisan politics partisans patent patriots per capita income persecution picket Piedmont Piedmont Crescent plank road plantation planter platform popular sovereignty Populists president of the senate president pro tempore price supports primary privateer progressive movement prohibition propaganda Protestants public works Quakers Radicals ratify ration Reconstruction Reconstruction Act referendum Regulators relief repeal Republican party Republicans revenues right-to-work law Rip Van Winkle state royal colony rural rural electrification sabotage satellite scalawag secede secretary of state sectionalism segregation Senate separate-but-equal concept service sector sharecroppers 3

4 shoals shopping center sit-in slave slave code slave state smuggling Social Security Act software sounds sovereignty Spanish Armada speaker of the house specie squatter Stamp Act states rights stock market strategy strike suburb suffrage superintendent of public superior court instruction supreme court synthetic tariff taxes technology tenancy system Tennessee Valley Authority termination textile industry Tidewater tobacco industry tornado Tory War Townshend Acts Trail of Tears treasurer treaty tribe tributary truce trust U.S. Constitution underground railroad unicameral Union League universal manhood suffrage urban veto War Hawks Whig party Whigs Whiskey Rebellion white supremacy Wilmot Proviso Women s Christian Temperance worker s compensation Union (WCTU) World War I World War II writ of habeas corpus yeoman 4

5 Eighth Grade Science Word List acceleration ecology magnetism pulley acid rain element mantle reactant adaptation energy pyramid mass reaction alkalinity environment matter recycle aquatic life forms erosion mechanical relationships advantage Astronomy evolution Mesozoic Era renewable resources Biology force models resources block and tackle formula motion screw Botany fossil mountain formation seismograph catalyst fossil fuels natural resource simple machine Cenozoic Era friction Neanderthal solar energy Chemistry geological event neutron technology classify Geology nitrates temperature compound machine geothermal energy nonrenewable theory resource conclusion gravity observation tidal energy conservation of greenhouse effect organic variables matter consumer hydrosphere ozone layer velocity continental drift hypothesis Paleozoic Era volume core inclined plane ph water cycle crust inertia physical change water pollution data inorganic Physics wedge demonstrate lava pollution wheel and axle density lever population Zoology disease control lithosphere Precambrian Era earthquake magma product 5

6 Eighth Grade Math Word List absolute value corresponding angle interest perpendicular scientific notation acute interquartile pi sequence range additive inverse dependent inverse polygon simulation events operation adjacent angle diameter irrational polynomial solid number algebraic dilation isosceles population solution expression discount LCM power square root alternate angles distributive legs precision statistic altitude property like terms prime stem-and-leaf plot area divisible line of symmetry principal straight angle arithmetic domain linear equation prism substitute sequence equation lower quartile probability supplementary associative equilateral markup proportion angle property evaluate mean protractor surface area bar notation event median Pythagorean system of base exponent mode Theorem equations box-and-whisker factor monomial quadrant term plot factorial multiplication quadrilateral terminating cell Fibonacci property of quartiles tessellation circle graph formula equality radical sign transformation circumference frequency table numerical radius translation coefficient frequency table expression random transversal column greatest obtuse range trapezoid combination common factor order of rate trinomial operation commission geometric ordered pair ratio unit rate commutative sequence origin rational number upper quartile property greatest outcome real number variable complementary possible error outlier reciprocal vertex angles histogram parallelogram reflection vertical angles composite number hypotenuse pentagon repeating decimal volume independent percent rhombus x-axis compound events percentage rotation x-intercept event congruent inequality perfect square sample y-axis constant integer perimeter scale y-intercept converse intercepts permutation scalene coordinate scatter plot 6

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