| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Incumbent | The official who holds an office. |
| Partisan | One-sided, committed to a party, biased or prejudiced. |
| Libel | Malicious defamation by written or printed words, pictures, or in any form other than by spoken words or gestures. |
| Slander | A malicious, false, and defamatory statement or report. |
| Embargo | An order of a government prohibiting the movement of merchant ships into or out of its ports. |
| Precedent | A legal decision or form of proceeding serving as an authoritative rule or pattern in future similar cases. |
| Propaganda | Information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc. |
| Fallacy | A deceptive, misleading, or false belief that is often used in advertising as a technique to persuade the audience into doing or buying something. |
| Media | A means of communication (such as radio and television, newspapers, and magazines) that reach or influence people widely. |
| Slogan | A catchy phrase that advertisers use to grab the attention of the public. |
| Morpheme | The smallest unit of a word (prefix/suffix/root). |
| Resistor | A device designed to introduce resistance into an electric circuit. |
| Current | The amount of electric charge flowing past a specified circuit point per unit time. |
| Circuit | The complete path of an electric current. |
| Conductor | A substance, body, or device that readily conducts heat, electricity, sound, etc. |
| Ohm's Law | The law that measures resistance by omega. |
| Square Root | A number that, when squared, yields a given number. For example, since 5 × 5 = 25, the square root of 25 (written √25) is 5. |
| Right Triangle | A triangle where the right angle is across from the hypotenuse and the legs form the right angle. |
| Conjecture | Inference or judgment based on inconclusive or incomplete evidence; guesswork. |
| Hypotenuse | The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle (longest side). |
| Experimental Probabilities | The ratio of the number of times the event occurs to the total number of trials (actually conduct an experiement). |
| Theoretical Probabilities | The ratio of the number of ways the event can occur to the total number of possibilities in the sample space (the way it should happen). |
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