| Term | Definition |
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| expository text | a statement or rhetorical discourse intended to give information about or an explanation of difficult material; the art or technique of composing such discourses. |
| Mnemonic Device | something intended to assist the memory; as a verse or formulat |
| Demographics | statistical data of a population like – GDP per capita, Life Expectance, Literacy Rate, Infant mortality, ethnicity, religion etc |
| distributive property | a property indicating a special way in which multiplication is applied to addition of two or more numbers in which each term inside a set of parentheses can be multiplied by a factor outside the parentheses, such as a(b + c) = ab + ac |
| Inference | The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence |
| learning | the act of aquiring knowledge |
| domestication | to train or adapt (an animal or plant) to live in a human environment and be of use to humans |
| variable | quantity that can have more than a single value (dependent vs independent) |
| Socratic Method | the use of questions, as employed by a famous Greek thinker, to develop a latent idea, as in the mind of a pupil |
| iris | circular diaphragm forming the colored portion of the eye and containing a circular opening, the pupil, in its center |
| cultivate | to prepare and work on (land) in order to raise crops; till; to develop or improve by education or training; train; refine: to promote the growth or development of (an art, science, etc.); foster |
| equation | an expression or a poposition, often algebraic, asserting the equality of two quantities |
| theme | a unifying, recurrent, or dominant idea, motif, etc. |
| myopia | nearsightedness; a condition of the eye in which parallel rays are focused in front of the retina, objects being seen distinctly only when NEAR to the eye |
| Colony | a group of people who leave their native country to form in a new land a settlement subject to, or connected with, the parent nation; Carthage, Naples, etc. |
| coordinate | any of the magnitudes that serve to define the position of a point, line, or the like, by reference to a fixed figure, system of lines, etc |
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