Collection 5: Food Product Design

As you read Eric Schlosser's "Food Product Design," from "Fast Food Nation," learn this word list. Here are links to lists for texts in Grade 11's Collection 5: To Build a Fire, The Jungle, Food Product Design, The Lowest Animal, Genesis of the Tenement, The Story of an Hour, The Fish
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  1. stem
    grow out of, have roots in, originate in
  2. divulge
    make known to the public information previously kept secret
  3. volatile
    evaporating readily at normal temperatures and pressures
  4. astringent
    tending to draw together or constrict soft organic tissue
  5. infinitesimal
    immeasurably small
  6. catalyst
    substance that initiates or accelerates a chemical reaction
  7. conjure
    summon into action or bring into existence
  8. fermentation
    breaking down an organic substance, as sugar into alcohol
  9. synthesize
    combine so as to form a more complex product
  10. uncanny
    surpassing the ordinary or normal
Created on Thu Jul 17 15:39:15 EDT 2014 (updated Thu Jul 24 11:21:25 EDT 2014)

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