Rosetta Stone's Essential Academic Vocabulary: Lesson 3

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  1. affect
    have an influence upon
    It’s the changes that affect people’s lives for either good or bad. The Freedom Writers Diary
  2. calculate
    make a mathematical computation
    When I was upset, calculating the area of a triangle, or adding up columns of numbers, or reciting pi always helped me. The Lions of Little Rock
  3. definition
    a brief explanation of the meaning of a word or phrase
    Monday night’s homework always took forever, because the spelling words were also vocabulary words, and Ms. Udell insisted that each student write an official dictionary definition of each word before using it in a sentence. George
  4. describe
    give an account or representation of in words
    He described its skyscrapers and explained how each year the buildings grew taller and taller. The Devil in the White City
  5. frequent
    coming at short intervals or habitually
    Extreme weather is more frequent and more intense. The Verge (Jan 27, 2021)
  6. maximum
    the largest possible quantity
    Felicia bought the maximum amount allowed, eight gallons, and spent two Sundays painting the house with borrowed brushes and ladders. Dreaming in Cuban
  7. method
    a way of doing something, especially a systematic way
    Critics attacked both the study’s conclusions and the methods used to reach them. Science Magazine (Dec 21, 2020)
  8. minimum
    the smallest possible quantity
    A minimum of three or four people were needed to handle these final steps. New York Times (Apr 7, 2020)
  9. purpose
    an anticipated outcome that guides your planned actions
    Let me be perfectly blunt: my purpose in writing this brief note is to suggest that we meet. Stuart Little
  10. theory
    a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the world
    The eventual goal of science is to provide a single theory that describes the whole universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays
Created on Wed Aug 18 15:17:10 EDT 2021 (updated Fri Aug 20 15:46:23 EDT 2021)

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