Collection 6: The Real Reasons We Explore Space

As you read Michael Griffin's "The Read Reasons We Explore Space," learn this word list. Here are links to lists for texts in Grade 9's Collection 6: elements of an epic, The Odyssey, Part 1, The Odyssey, Part 2, The Cruelest Journey, The Real Reasons We Explore Space
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  1. contemplate
    think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes
  2. spreadsheet
    a screen-oriented interactive program enabling a user to lay out financial data on the screen
  3. Charles Lindbergh
    United States aviator who in 1927 made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean (1902-1974)
  4. sputnik
    a Russian artificial satellite
  5. intuitive
    obtained through instinctive knowledge
  6. gross domestic product
    the value of all things made and sold by a country in a year
  7. contention
    a point asserted as part of an argument
  8. imperative
    requiring attention or action
  9. enterprise
    a purposeful or industrious undertaking
  10. fundamental
    far-reaching and thoroughgoing in effect
  11. effective
    producing or capable of producing an intended result
  12. defer
    hold back to a later time
  13. gratification
    state of being satisfied
  14. conceivable
    capable of being imagined
  15. confirm
    establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts
Created on Fri Jul 18 14:37:53 EDT 2014 (updated Thu Jul 24 11:16:17 EDT 2014)

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