Grade 7: Unit 8: Vocabulary from Readings 1

This list covers "What Do You Know About Sharks?," "Great White Sharks," "Like Black Smoke: The Black Death’s Journey," and "A World Turned Upside Down: How the Black Death Affected Europe."
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  1. aquatic
    operating or living or growing in water
  2. ecosystem
    organisms interacting with their physical environment
  3. decimate
    kill in large numbers
  4. carcass
    the dead body of an animal
  5. diffuse
    spread through
  6. buoyancy
    the tendency to float in water or other liquid
  7. demonize
    characterize as dangerous or wicked
  8. anecdotal
    based on stories rather than data or scientific observation
  9. consensus
    agreement in the judgment reached by a group as a whole
  10. scrutiny
    the act of examining something closely, as for mistakes
  11. visceral
    coming from deep inward feelings rather than from reasoning
  12. prospective
    of or concerned with or related to the future
  13. inadvertence
    the trait of forgetting or ignoring your responsibilities
  14. travesty
    a composition that imitates or misrepresents a style
  15. bacterium
    a single-celled or noncellular organism lacking chlorophyll
  16. chronicle
    a record or narrative description of past events
  17. rampage
    violently angry and destructive behavior
  18. hierarchy
    a series of ordered groupings within a system
  19. cope
    come to terms with
  20. disarray
    untidiness, especially of clothing and appearance
  21. artisan
    a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft
  22. recurrence
    event of happening again, especially at regular intervals
Created on Thu May 13 13:56:37 EDT 2021 (updated Tue May 18 09:10:27 EDT 2021)

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