Words -July 3rd

Words

Dictation – Dictation is the speaking or reading aloud of words for someone else to write down.

Dictator – A dictator is a ruler who has complete power in a country, especially power which was obtained by force and is used unfairly or cruelly.

Herbivore – A herbivore is an animal that only eats plants. (vegetarian)

Carnivore – A carnivore is an animal that eats meant. (meat eater)

Omnivore – an *omnivorous person or animal. (both)

*Omnivorous – An omnivorous person or animal eats all kinds of food, including both meat and plants.

Extinct – A species of animal or plant that is extinct no longer has any living members, either in the world or in a particular place. (no longer exist)

Fossil – A fossil is the hard remains of a prehistoric animal or plant that are found inside a rock.

Excavation – (noun)

Excavate – (verb) When archaeologists or other people excavate a piece of land, they remove earth carefully from it and look for things such as pots, bones, or buildings which are buried there, in order to discover information about the past.

Mastodon – any extinct elephant-like *proboscidean mammal of the **genus Mammut(or Mastodon), common in Pliocene times.

*Proboscidean - of, relating to, or belonging to the Proboscidea, an order of massive herbivorous placental mammals having tusks and a long trunk: contains the elephants

**genus - A genus is a class of similar things, especially a group of animals or plants that includes several closely related species.

Jumble – A jumble of things is a lot of different things that are all mixed together in a disorganized or confused way.

Puerto Rico – an autonomous commonwealth (in association with the US) occupying the smallest and easternmost of the Greater Antilles in the Caribbean: one of the most densely populated areas in the world; ceded by Spain to the US in 1899. Currency: US dollar. Capital: San Juan. Pop: 3 897 000 (2004 est). Area: 9104 sq km (3515 sq miles).

<The photo of Puerto Rico>

Source: http://blog.naver.com/iamlove23?Redirect=Log&logNo=120003509556

Immigrant - A person who migrates to another country, usually for permanent residence. [ˋɪməgrənt]

Emigrant - A person who *emigrates, as from his or her native country or region.

[ˋɛməgrənt]

*emigrate - to leave one country or region to settle in another

Bison - Also called American bison, American buffalo. a North American, oxlike ruminant, Bison bison, having a large head and high, humped shoulders: formerly common in North America, its small remaining population in isolated western areas of the U.S. and Canada is now protected.

Independent - not influenced or controlled by others in matters of opinion, conduct, etc.; thinking or acting for oneself

Marijuana/marihuana - A preparation made from the dried flower clusters and leaves of the cannabis plant, usually smoked or eaten to induce *euphoria.

* euphoria - a state of intense happiness and self-confidence

Grid - a grating of crossed bars

Dirt - earth or soil, especially when loose.

Matrix – (n , pl: matrices , matrixes )

(Petrology) the fine-grained portion of a rock in which coarser crystals or rock fragments are embedded.

Pronouncing:

Immigrant - [ˋɪməgrənt]

Emigrant - [ˋɛməgrənt]

Bison - [ˋbaɪsn]

Marijuana/marihuana - [͵mɑrɪˋhwɑnə]

Grid - [grɪd]

Greed - [grid] (excessive or rapacious desire, especially for wealth or possessions.)

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Matrix – (n , pl: matrices , matrixes )
1.	a substance, situation, or environment in which something has its origin, takes form, or is enclosed
2.	anatomy the thick tissue at the base of a nail from which a fingernail or toenail develops
3.	the intercellular substance of bone, cartilage, connective tissue, etc
4.	a.the rock material in which fossils, pebbles, etc, are embedded
	b.the material in which a mineral is embedded; gangue
5.	printing
	a.a metal mould for casting type
	b.Sometimes shortened to: mat a papier-mâché or plastic mould impressed from the forme and used for stereotyping
6.	(formerly) a mould used in the production of gramophone records. It is obtained by electrodeposition onto the master
7.	a bed of perforated material placed beneath a workpiece in a press or stamping machine against which the punch operates
8.	metallurgy
	a.the shaped cathode used in electroforming
	b.the metal constituting the major part of an alloy
	c.the soft metal in a plain bearing in which the hard particles of surface metal are embedded
9.	the main component of a composite material, such as the plastic in a fibre-reinforced plastic
10.	maths Compare determinant a rectangular array of elements set out in rows and columns, used to facilitate the solution of problems, such as the transformation of coordinates. Usually indicated by parentheses: ( )
11.	linguistics the main clause of a complex sentence
12.	computing a rectangular array of circuit elements usually used to generate one set of signals from another
13.	obsolete the womb

by Floria and Sandra