Download Academic Vocabulary List - Edmond Memorial High School

NOTICE TO PARENTS Edmond Memorial High School is providing these key ACADEMIC VOCABULARY terms for our patrons because of their importance to your student. This list of terms was generated by the Oklahoma State Department of Education and EMHS. Each word chosen was deemed “essential to learn” in order to enhance your student’s success on End‐of‐
Instruction exams during the spring semester as well as the ACT. Complementary to our work with your student and these terms, you can facilitate your student’s success enormously by regularly encouraging your student to use each term in a sentence for you in different context. English II Denotation Character Logos Simile Symbol Topic sentence Echo Contiguity Shift Voice Parody Participles Personification Connotation Imagery Oxymoron Incongruity Opposition Concrete detail Parallelism Adjacency Juxtaposition Transitions Irony Prepositions Alliteration Evidence Hyperbole Metaphor Archetype Tension Commentary Turn Montage Claim Assertion Primary Source Inference Onomatopoeia Atmosphere Ethos Paradox Antithesis Cause‐effect Analogy Transformation Contrast Tone Synecdoche Secondary Source Allusion Diction Pathos Associations Motif Similarity Recurrence Alteration Repetition Attitude Metonymy Syntax Satire English III Active/passive Voice Allegory Ambiguity Annotated bibliography Censorship Credibility Diction Ethics Extended metaphor Gerund Ideology Inference Misplaced modifiers MLA format Paradox Parody Primary source Redundancy Satire Secondary source Sexist language Summary Thesis Tone Argumentation Antagonist Archetype Literary analysis Multiple points of view Reflective essay Narrative essay Expository essay Colonialism Transcendentalism Realism Modernism Compare/contrast Resumes Rhetorical purpose Style Synthesis Textual evidence Anecdote Dangling modifier Generalizations Irony Parallel structure Sarcasm Stream of consciousness Understatement Ballad Descriptive essay Romanticism Regionalism Text structure Cause and effect Algebra I Variable Term Integer Intercepts Rational functions Slope Range Simplify Evaluate Absolute value Binomial Coefficient Consecutive integers Coordinate plane x and y‐axis degree distribute Equation Equivalent Exponent/exponential Factor Infinite Inverse Like terms/terms Linear/linear equations Negative/opposite No solution Origin Ordered pair Outlier Parallel/perpendicular Perfect squares Portion/Rate/Ratio polynomials/monomials Radicals Quadratic mean, medium, and mode (measure of central tendency) Quotient/product/sum/difference Reciprocal Irrational/rational/real numbers Substitution Domain Functions Constant cross products Expression Inequality Minimum/maximum Order of Operations Parabola Quadrants Horizontal & vertical asymptote Algebra II Absolute value Matrix Complete the square Conic section Determinant Ellipse Function Independent variable Radicals Roots Natural logarithm Point of discontinuity Standard deviation Transformations Sequence Coefficient Complex number Converge Directrix Exponential Hyperbolas Index Linear Solutions Normal distribution Polynomial Synthetic division Interval notation Series Constant Conjugate Diverge Discriminant Extraneous Imaginary number Inverse Logarithm x – intercepts Parabola Quadratic Vertex Multiplicity Asymptote Logarithm Composition of function Degree Domain and range Focus Dependent variable Irrational Zeros y‐intercepts Parent function Regression Rational expressions Summation Geometry Inductive reasoning Linear equations Midpoint Adjacent Proofs Lines Classification of polygons Congruence Theorems Deductive reasoning Parallel lines Angles Complementary Transversal Points Convex Similarity Inscribed angles Postulate/axiom Perpendicular lines Vertical angles Supplementary Segments Rays Concave Proportions Chords Conditional statements Slopes Linear pair Angle classification Planes Polygons Regular Ratio Secants Geometry continued… Tangents Trigonometric Ratios Altitudes Isosceles Transformations Arcs Pythagorean theorem Bisectors Apothem Midsegment Segment lengths Sectors Special right triangles Medians Geometric means Quadrilaterals Surface area Volume Classifying 3 dimensional figures Biology Allele Biogeochemical cycle Encoding Genotype Innate Behavior Mutation Pedigree Replication Adenosine triphosphate Analogous Carrying capacity Enzyme Heterozygous Learned behavior Nucleotide Permeable Ribonucleic acid Tropism Stimulus Cellular Respiration Evolution Homologous Limiting factors Organ Phenotype Sex‐linked trait Tissue U.S. History Sectionalism Secession Emancipation Proclamation Labor Union Exoduster Progressivism Imperialism Zimmerman Note Bootleggers Black Tuesday Appeasement Internment McCarthyism United Nations De jure segregation Brown v. Board of Education Transcontinental Railroad Popular Sovereignty Sharecropping Reconstruction Nativism Jims Crow Laws Suffrage Big Stick Diplomacy League of Nations Prohibition Hoovervilles Neutrality Containment Arms Race NATO Détente Feminism Fugitive Slave Law Carpetbaggers Industrialism Assimilation Plessy v Ferguson Muckrakers Dollar Diplomacy Yellow journalism Harlem Renaissance New Deal Reparations Red Scare Cold War De‐segregation Vietnamization Tariff/Embargo Behavior (innate, learned) Deoxyribonucleic acid Genes Homozygous Multicelluar Organism Phospholipids Transport (active, passive) Symbiosis (mutualism commensalisms) Dred Scott v Sanford Scalawags Monopoly Warren Court Populism Settlement House Isolationism Flappers Buying on Margin Totalitarianism Anti‐Semitism Iron Curtain Blockade/Quarantine De Facto segregation Counterculture Realpolitik