7th Grade AR: -Apo Vocabulary
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shrapshrep23 on March 22, 2011
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Twenty vocabulary words, starting with "apodictic" and ending with "apologue".
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Meads Mill AR, The Trubbies, The Gesticulators, 7th Grade AR
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 apodictic | expressing or of the nature of necessary truth or absolute certainty |
| apothecary | one who prepares and sells drugs or compounds for medicinal purposes |
| apogee | the point in the orbit of an object (ex. satellite) orbiting the earth that is the greatest distance from the center of the earth; the farthest/highest point |
| aperture | an opening/open space; the diameter of the objective lens or mirror of a telescope |
| aphorism | a concise statement of a principle |
| apocalypse | one of the Jewish and Christian writings (200 BC); something viewed as a prophetic revelation; a great disaster |
| apogeotropsim | the state of bending up or away from the ground |
| apocope | the loss of one or more sounds/letters at the end of a word; cut off |
| aposiopesis | the leaving off of a thought incomplete, usually by a sudden breaking off |
| apophasis | the raising of an issue by claiming not to mention it |
| apoplexy | a sudden, usually marked loss of bodily function due to rupture, etc. |
| apotheosis | elevation to divine status (God); the ideal example |
| apostrophe | the addressing of a usually absent person or a usually personified thing rhetorically; a form of punctuation |
| apostle | one sent on a religious mission; one that advocates a cause or movement |
| apology | a formal justification or defense |
| apostate | one who abandons a previous loyalty (apostasy) |
| aposematic | colored or constructed in a way that indicates special capabilities for defense |
| apophyge | a small outward curve joining the shaft of a column, esp. a classical column, to its base |
| apopemptic | pertaining to leave-taking/departing; a farewell address |
| apologue | an allegorical narrative usually intended to convey a moral |
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