8th Grade Academic Vocabulary Test - Group Four

Target Language or Knowledge:

algebraic equation direct evidence exothermic facilitator scale factor feedback mechanisms federalist footnote free enterprise anti-federalist landmark case allusion antecedent bias

a mathematical phrase involving at least one variable and sometimes numbers and operation symbols. an arrangement of items or events in which order does not matter a relation in which each member of the domain is paired with exactly one member of the range clear and observable evidence cause and effect relationships that keep a system working within its limits one or more sets of numbers on a number line or coordinate/grid paper a reaction that releases heat a reaction that absorbs heat the job or action of individual parts working together to form a whole a member of a collaborative group who indirectly leads group members to understand their common objectives a part that goes before; a word or group of words to which a pronoun refers a particular tendency or inclination: prejudice the ratio of the lengths of two corresponding sides of two similar polygons or solids a graph with points plotted to show a possible relationship between two sets of data a method of writing very large or very small numbers by using powers of 10 cause and effect relationships that keep a system working within its limits the job or action of individual parts working together to form a whole observed data recorded in text - such as color, taste, texture, or sound someone who supported ratification of the Constitution a person who has been freed from slavery person who wanted to add the Bill of Rights before ratifying a note placed at the bottom of a page of a book or manuscript that comments on or cites a reference for a designated part of the text words and expressions used in a particular profession or by a particular group of people, which are difficult for others outside that group to understand verbal form that can function as an adjective or be used with an auxiliary to form certain tenses the doctrine or practice of giving companies the freedom to trade and make a profit without government control a person who has been freed from slavery a court ruling marking an important event or turning point in history person who wanted to add the Bill of Rights before ratifying someone who supported ratification of the Constitution a person who has been freed from slavery a court ruling marking an important event or turning point in history solving a dispute happily the state of being a nonparticipant in war; non-alliance with either side in a dispute a figure of speech, reference or representation to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art a particular tendency or inclination: prejudice a part that goes before; a word or group of words to which a pronoun refers a part that goes before; a word or group of words to which a pronoun refers the relation of a word to its base a noun in the form of the present participle of a verb a particular tendency or inclination: prejudice a verbal or written argument; a regulated discussion of a problem between two opposing sides the relation of a word to its base

Write sentences using words from above: Choose at least 5 different words.