moisture

moistures

Moisture is the feeling of wetness — what you want in your cupcake but not in your diapers.

Moisture is the noun related to the adjective moist, which you might use to describe damp soil, clammy air, or melt-in-your-mouth desserts. Moisture has also been known to promote mold growth and frizz otherwise tame hair, so it doesn't have many fans — other than tropical plants and the very thirsty.

Definitions of moisture
  1. noun
    wetness caused by water
    synonyms: wet
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    type of:
    wetness
    the condition of containing or being covered by a liquid (especially water)
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Week 3: Patterns

"Modern Automotive Technology," Vocabulary from Section 12

This list focuses on heating and air conditioning (Chapters 75-76). Here are links to all the sections of the textbook published by The Goodheart-Willcox Company, Inc.: Section 1, Section 2, Section 3, Section 4, Section 5, Section 6, Section 7, Section 8, Section 9, Section 10, Section 11, Section 12, Section 13

"Brothers in Hope"

Learn these words from the biographical fiction by Mary Williams (Inside: Level B, Unit 3). Here are our links to the selections of "A New Chapter": The Lotus Seed, A Suitcase of Seaweed; Immigrants Today, The Lemon Story, Brothers in Hope, Refugees Find New Lives, The New Colossus Here are our links to the units of Level B: Unit 1, Unit 2, Unit 3, Unit 4, Unit 5, Unit 6, Unit 7, Unit 8 Here are our links to the Inside books: Level A, Level B, Level C Here is our link to a list of academic vocabulary for Inside: Academic Vocabulary

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