Collection 4: Coming to Our Senses

As you read Neil deGrasse Tyson's "Coming to Our Senses," learn this word list. Here are links to lists for texts in Grade 10's Collection 4: poems by Emily Dickinson, Coming to Our Senses, The Night Face Up, The Math Instinct, Musee des Beaux Arts
15 words 1252 learners

Learn words with Flashcards and other activities

Definition First
Print Flashcards

Other learning activities

Answer a few questions about each word. Use this to prep for your next quiz! Compete with other teams in real time to see who answers the most questions correctly! Test your spelling acumen. Read the definition, listen to the word and try spelling it!

Teaching tools

Create and assign quizzes to your students to test their vocabulary. Assign learning activities including Practice, Vocabulary Jams and Spelling Bees to your students, and monitor their progress in real-time.

Full list of words from this list:

words only definitions & notes
  1. acuity
    sharpness of vision
  2. stimulus
    any information or event that acts to arouse action
  3. logarithm
    the exponent required to produce a given number
  4. stellar
    being or relating to or resembling or emanating from stars
  5. magnitude
    the property of relative size or extent
  6. acoustic
    relating to the study of the physical properties of sound
  7. decibel
    a unit of sound intensity
  8. seismic
    subject to or caused by an earthquake or earth vibration
  9. propensity
    a disposition to behave in a certain way
  10. transcend
    go beyond the scope or limits of
  11. parapsychology
    phenomena that appear to contradict physical laws and suggest the possibility of causation by mental processes
  12. futures contract
    an agreement to buy or sell a specific amount of a commodity or financial instrument at a particular price on a stipulated future date; the contract can be sold before the settlement date
  13. troglodyte
    a primitive person who lived in a cave
  14. precarious
    not secure; beset with difficulties
  15. sentient
    consciously perceiving
Created on Mon Jul 14 23:23:14 EDT 2014 (updated Thu Jul 24 11:32:37 EDT 2014)

Sign up now (it’s free!)

Whether you’re a teacher or a learner, Vocabulary.com can put you or your class on the path to systematic vocabulary improvement.