Sunday, April 6, 2008

Weekly Vocabulary April 4

1. Word / Phrase:gamic
Meaning:requiring or resulting from mating.
Context: Gamic is another word for offspring

2. Word / Phrase: Graviton
Meaning: theoretical mesurement for gravity
Context: The pull of black holes can be mesured in gravitons years from now.

3. Word / Phrase:fortnight
Meaning:A period of 14 days and nights; two weeks.
Context: My suplies will be delivered to me in about a fortnight

4. Word / Phrase:macron
Meaning:mark placed over long vowels.
Context: I never put macrons in any of the things i write.

5. Word / Phrase:macrotia
Meaning:. largeness of ears. macrotous, a. large-eared.
Context: Now i can call some one macrotous and feel proud because i know a word someone doesent.

1 comment:

Mr. Andrew said...

Interesting vocabulary words. I am not sure how useful they are, but it is always good to learn something.

All of you weekly vocab were late, no feb 15, and nothing extra.

Your grade is currently a C. -AS-