Academic+Vocabulary

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Activity #2.1: Let's Get Started:

Answers:
 * 1. What did you learn about academic vocabulary from watching the video clip?**
 * 2. How would you define academic vocabulary?**
 * 3. Predict how academic vocabulary can help you be successful in your social studies classes as well as other academic classes?**

1) In the video clip, academic language are said in a very specific detail in their speech. The words are not put in simple form and uses a more difficult vocabulary, more advanced. It takes a more deeper and longer way of understanding what is going on. The clip shows a stereotype visual of what the academic language suppose to be like as well. 2) I would define academic vocabulary a choice of difficult and advanced words to describe and understand fully the meaning of a topic. 3) Academic vocabulary can help me be successful in my S.S. as well is other academic classes because it will let the audience who I am speaking or presenting fully understand what I am trying to imply.


 * 2.2: What you know about Academic Terms**

__What are they similar and what are they different?:__ **Imply/Infer:** S: they start out from thinking on the idea of their own. D: Imply means to say what are you trying to say and Infer means to think or predict about the topic
 * 2.3**
 * Bias/Point of View: ** S: they both have started with the point of view that can be cause by a turn of events D: Bias is a cause of an event and cannot be changed because it is within the audience in a groupof people and the Point of View can be changed by the individual
 * Evaluate/Assess: ** S: They try to find more information adding in or taking something out D: Assess is to redo and fix over the topic and the other term is to add more details or in specific to the topic
 * Debate/Justify:** S: both go into an argument D: Debate is a social argumeny of an issue and the word "Justify" is a verb to bring out evidence

improbable maybe means that it is maybe or maybe not and impossible is just completely not to be true. ||
 * 2.4 New Vocabulary**
 * < **Terms** ||< **Defintion/Explanation** ||< ======**I think...I connect this to...I wonder if.....I find** **this valuable because....I find this difficult** **because...**====== ||
 * < Irate ||< angry; enraged ||< I think this is word is probably used in a more advanced academic vocabulary because I can't see it as an ordinary daily use of it. ||
 * < embodies ||< to give a concrete form to; express, personify ||< I wonder if this is mostly used in courts to identify a clue or evidence to persuade the audience if the accused is guilty or not guilty. ||
 * < exuberance ||< overflowing with joy and enthusiasm ||< I find the term definition so common in high school and maybe beyond because everyone who find their own interests goes into exuberance. ||
 * < sage ||< a mentor with spiritual and philiosphical topics ||< that term reminds me of a wise wizard. ||
 * equanimity || steadiness of mind under stress || I think I like the word because the definition of it. It would help anyone and me if there is a problem going on you know. ||
 * improbable || not likely to be true or to occur || What is the difference between improbable and impossible?
 * validity || the quality of being valid || I think it also mean that it is a useful and neccessary information ||
 * authentic || conforming to fact and therefore worthy of belief || I think it is important for the imfoormation or the sources that we are using because we want our audience to believe what we are trying to prove. ||
 * inaugural || occuring at or characteristics of a formal investiture ot induction || I think the "augural" is a root word of "audio" ||
 * investiture || the ceremony of installing a new monarch || It connects to how a mayor was nominated and the mayor makes a speech. ||
 * induction || a formal entry into an organization or position or office ||  ||
 * agonizingly || in a very painful manner ||  ||
 * magnitude || the property of relative size or extent || expansion can be a good word to substitute "magnitude" ||
 * attribute || credit to || When I hear the word attributes, it reminds me of the elements because I hear them in movies. ||

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 * 2.5**