Mastering - Writing Chapter 1 Skill A Q1-Practice 1 Step1 Wordlist Meaning a connection or relationship between two things correlation (n)

an aspect of an experiment that can be controlled or variable (n) observed to change; to alter manipulate (v) in a direct relationship in which the rates of variables change in positively (adv) the same direction in an inverse relationship in which the rates of variables change in negatively (adv) opposite directions related to a cause or reason for an action causal (adj)

Skill A Q1-Practice 1 Step2 Wordlist Meaning a part of component (n) to evaluate; to analyze assess (v) the state of accuracy or truthfulness validity (n) necessary; essential vital (adj) a painful tightening of a muscle cramp (n) to show; to state indicate (v)

Skill A Q1-Practice 2 Step1 Wordlist Meaning a lack of fairness; an inequity imbalance (n) to ignore; to not pay sufficient attention to discount (v) a body of practices, procedures, and rules used by those methodology (n) who work in a given discipline historiography (n) the body of practices, procedures, and rules used by historians to do; to commit an unethical act perpetrate (v) not balanced; biased skewed (adj) indigenous (adj) native to an area

Skill A Q1-Practice 2 Step2 Wordlist Meaning pejoratively (adv) in a negative, disparaging way

tinged (adj) hacks and rackpots (n phrase) pose (v) controversial (adj) negate (v) condone (v)

colored; given a certain perspective or opinion people who make academic or scientific claims without any justification or proof to pretend to be causing many different strong emotional reactions to work against; to counteract to accept as valid

Skill A Q1-Practice 3 Step1 Wordlist Meaning having the most influence or control dominant (adj) cataclysmic (adj) causing great damage to suggest as true; to hypothesize postulate (v) proportional (adj) having the same ratio having existed from the beginning; referring to the earliest primeval (adj) times

Skill A Q1-Practice 3 Step2 Wordlist Meaning alternative (adj) a different choice or possibility to check and confirm the truth of verify (v) prestigious (adj) well respected a thing; something that exists entity (n) provable by observation, or using the senses empirical (adj) a thin layer membrane (n) the state of exactness precision (n)

Skill A Q1-Practice 4 Step1 Wordlist Meaning to give credit for accredit (v) a false name used by writers or performers pseudonym (n) aristocratic (adj) from the ruling upper classes documentation (n) papers that authenticate little; weak; unconvincing scant (adj) in existence extant (adj)

Skill A Q1-Practice 4 Step2

Wordlist diligently (adv) sketchy (adj) conspiracy (n) genuine (adj) categorically (adv) colleague (n) contemporary (n)

Meaning with dedication and hard work not clear an agreement to commit an illegal or deceitful act real; authentic without exception or doubt; absolutely a coworker; an equal a person living at the same time

Skill B Q1-Practice 1 Step1 Wordlist Meaning inadequate (adj) not good enough for a given purpose; insufficient related to the smallest amount necessary minimum (adj) to check the truth of confirm (v) attention span the amount of time a person can mentally focus on a given task (n phrase) conversely (adv) in contrast; in an opposite way to keep from; to prevent from getting deprive (v) a brief statement of truth; an aphorism adage (n)

Skill B Q1-Practice 1 Step3 Wordlist Meaning a consideration of all the factors that produce a result equation (n) careless; negligent remiss (adj) to assign as a means of improving health or performance prescribe (v) knock-down, dragvery loud or violent out (adj phrase) in relation to; regarding vis--vis (prep) the part of the mind responsible for ones thoughts and feelings psyche (n) of greatest importance primary (adj)

Skill B Q1-Practice 2 Step1 Wordlist Meaning revolutionary (n) a person closely involved in bringing about a revolution the act of using authority and force to deprive another group of oppression (n) freedoms of the middle class bourgeois (adj) the working class proletariat (n)

a tendency toward a certain action or characteristic disposition (n) emancipation (n) the act of freeing people from oppression a change or disturbance that greatly affects something upheaval (n)

Skill B Q1-Practice 2 Step3 Wordlist Meaning to invent something; to do some action first pioneer (v) to not buy products from a company or country in protest boycott (v) par excellence (adj phrase) martyr (n) blockade (n) get wind of (v phrase) debilitate (v) being the best or truest example; quintessential a figure respected for sacrificing him or herself for a cause a group of people or objects put in place to block the progress of something to hear about; to learn of to injure; to damage something so that it can no longer function

Skill B Q1-Practice 3 Step1 Wordlist Meaning biochemistry (n) the study of the chemicals in living things exceptionally (adv) in a large or intense way extra terrestrial not on Earth (adj phrase) able to dissolve, or break into small particles, in water soluble (adj) a living thing being (n) it can be logically argued though not proven arguably (adv)

Skill B Q1-Practice 3 Step3 Wordlist Meaning a prejudiced belief in the superiority of ones own group chauvinism (n) to create doubt about the integrity or validity of discredit (v) pre-eminent (adj) most important; most respected many; plentiful abundant (adj) to copy; to recreate replicate (v) to theorize; to explain based on incomplete evidence speculate (v) to maintain; to keep alive or functioning sustain (v)

Skill B Q1-Practice 4 Step1 Wordlist Meaning the body parts left after death remains (n) a family relationship to kinship (n) the act of burying a dead body that has previously been buried reburial (n) in a large, very different way radically (adv) the movement of people or animals in a large group migration (n) an argument; a disagreement dispute (n) rage on (v phrase) to continue in an emotional or violent way

Skill B Q1-Practice 4 Step3 Wordlist Meaning to leave no room for compromise when enforcing a rule take a hard line or (v phrase) expressing an opinion spell the end to signal the end of; to be a sign that something is about to end (v phrase) accommodate (v) to make room for; to take into consideration the condition of being worthy of respect dignity (n) collaborative (adj) done by two or more people or groups to get the help of; to recruit enlist (v) to improve; to make stronger enhance (v)

Skill C Q2-Practice 1 Step2 Wordlist Meaning lucky fortunate (adj) an area in which animals are protected from hunting and wildlife reserve other (n phrase) human dangers an area with forests woodland (n) the land in which a given species lives habitat (n) admission fee an amount of money paid to gain access (n phrase) an amount of money spent in order to gain profits in the future investment (n) wood sold for construction lumber (n) for sure; certainly assuredly (adv) on ones mind an idea or topic frequently thought about (adj phrase)

Skill C Q2-Practice 1 Step4 Wordlist Meaning a small piece of land plot (n) free of charge without costing money (adv phrase) see fit (v phrase) to choose; to think wise or beneficial a thing that can be used by people resource (n) a business enterprise involving some risk in expectation of gain venture (n) an area of real estate developed into smaller pieces for homes to subdivision (n) be built on

Skill C Q2-Practice 2 Step2 Wordlist Meaning to need require (v) without much prior consideration rash (adj) very important; chief; principal major (adj) career the potential to improve ones job position dvancement (n phrase) a company; a corporation firm (n) on the spur of the done suddenly, without prior consideration moment (adv phrase) an inner knowledge or wisdom that is not gained from thought or instinct (n) experience

Skill C Q2-Practice 2 Step4 Wordlist Meaning to occur in connection with coincide (v) early; at first initial (adj) an amount of money given to students to pay for tuition scholarship (n) to warn against caution (v) a method; a way of doing technique (n) an impulse or motivation based on emotion and gut feeling instinct (n phrase) rather than rational thought

Skill C Q2-Practice 3 Step3 Wordlist Meaning the invention or beginning of advent (n) motion picture a movie; a film (n phrase) to believe strongly; to argue contend (v) geared to directed at; designed for (adj phrase) engrossing (adj) very interesting; able to hold ones attention drawn-out (adj) taking a long time to interest; to involve engage (v) to give; to provide endow (v) highly interested in avid (adj) an ability faculty (n) strong in emotion intense (adj) impressive; causing a strong emotional response stunning (adj) an item or event that causes a reaction stimulus (n) causing an emotional response emotive (adj) related to sound and hearing auditory (adj) a theme; a topic vein (n) the state of being alone solitude (n) to act and react to another person or thing interact (v) to complain about bemoan (v) to feel sad and complain about lament (v)

Skill C Q2-Practice 4 Step3 Wordlist Meaning a characteristic part of something over an extended period of mainstay (n) time important or significant to a given topic relevant (adj) the period of life after schooling in which people get jobs real world and (n phrase) start families to change the direction of; to take away from divert (v) a decision to act initiative (n) unhappy; angry bitter (adj) old-fashioned; no longer useful or relevant outdated (adj) a category; a type genre (n) in retrospect thinking back, or remembering, after an event is over (adv phrase) to improve; to modernize upgrade (v) an unfair or illogical act travesty (n) to stay away from; to avoid avert (v)

invariably (adv) always; without fail to remember; to recall recollect (v) repetitive and boring tedious (adj) to promote the development of foster (v) to allow to do; to provide the necessary conditions or skills to do enable (v) strictly accurate; precise rigorous (adj) very important; necessary integral (adj) indispensable (adj) necessary; essential

Chapter 2 Skill A Q1-Practice 1 Step1 Wordlist Meaning a person who makes plans and strategies strategist (n) come to mind to be thought of (v phrase) an accomplishment feat (n) to appear or perform better than outshine (v) to capture and control subdue (v) a payment of money or goods demanded by the head of an tribute (n) empire from the nations under its control a gun firearm (n) a large, powerful breed of dog mastiff (n) a large public performance or display spectacle (n)

Skill A Q1-Practice 1 Step2 Wordlist Meaning lingua franca a second language spoken by people of many nations (n phrase) a group of people that accompany someone entourage (n) a woman responsible for bearing children to a man concubine (n) a military venture campaign (n) cast doubt on to make uncertain or doubtful (v phrase) hierarchical (adj) related to a ranking based on power or authority

Skill A Q1-Practice 2 Step1 Wordlist Meaning the food and drink sold in a stadium concessions (n)

prosperity (n) municipal (adj) intangible (adj) hallmark (n) undue (adj) burden (n) hasty (adj)

the state of being successful related to a city or town not detectable by the physical senses a characteristic sign of unnecessary; unjust; unwarranted a source of stress or difficulty done quickly, without careful consideration

Skill A Q1-Practice 2 Step2 Wordlist Meaning related to a nation federal (adj) not applicable to; an exception to exempt (adj) the structures necessary for a society to run smoothly, infrastructure (n) such as roads, schools, and hospitals small; insufficient meager (adj) possible; able to be accomplished; plausible feasible (adj) top notch of high quality or level (adj phrase)

Skill A Q1-Practice 3 Step1 Wordlist Meaning carry out (v to do; to perform phrase) phenomenon (n) an event; a happening pseudoscience (n) a false science; an unfounded claim of a scientific procedure peer review the process of having equals examine an academic work (n phrase) reproducibility (n) the ability to be repeated with the same results to produce and give off emit (v) take place to happen; to occur (v phrase) seeming to be true but actually false; deceptively attractive specious (adj)

Skill A Q1-Practice 3 Step2 Wordlist Meaning a feeling of contempt for; a feeling of superiority in regards to disdain (n) to surprise greatly astound (v) buy into (v phrase) to believe

validate (v) deem (v) stance (n)

to prove true to conclude; to state as an opinion; a point of view

Skill A Q1-Practice 4 Step1 Wordlist Meaning to engage in (v phrase) do unfounded (adj) not supported by evidence a relative that lived in the past; a person whom one is descended ancestor (n) from ritualistically (adv) as part of a ceremony or ritual to eat; to consume ingest (v) possible; able to be accomplished; feasible plausible (adj) violent; extremely harsh or cruel brutal (adj)

Skill A Q1-Practice 4 Step2 Wordlist Meaning causing strong emotions touchy (adj) to respect greatly revere (v) tag marker a characteristic sign of (n phrase) a dead body carcass (n) to censure; to conclude as unethical or unworthy condemn (v) to spoil; to lessen the value or purity of tarnish (v)

Skill B Q2-Practice 1 Step2 Wordlist Meaning strong; intense keen (adj) to succeed at; to be good at excel (v) stimulating (adj) interesting; producing energy to yield to desires; to do something fun but unproductive or indulge (v) unhealthy critical faculties the ability to think analytically (n phrase)

Skill B Q2-Practice 2 Step2 Wordlist Meaning a feeling of uneasiness or worry; a reservation qualm (n) a part portion (n) the benefit and well being of welfare (n) a way of thinking; a belief system mentality (n) a basic, fundamental idea or belief premise (n) to gain and increase accrue (v)

Skill B Q2-Practice 3 Step2 Wordlist Meaning the process of splitting into parts fission (n) meaningful (adj) important a building or piece of equipment in which nuclear reactions take reactor (n) place a factor that influences against a given action deterrent (n) feeling an overwhelming emotion, such as fear awed (adj) bring about (v phrase) to make happen; to effect

fundamental (adj) basic; essential

Skill B Q2-Practice 4 Step3 Wordlist Meaning a potential for improvement prospect (n) head start an early start; an advantageous beginning (n phrase) to do something that involves a lengthy process undertake (v) to organize structure (v) to write a letter or page honoring someone dedicate (v) come up with to make; to create (v phrase) unrestricted permission; the permission to do whatever free reign one (n phrase) wants run wild (v phrase) to move or operate in an energetic, uncontrolled fashion

Skill B Q2-Practice 5 Step4

Wordlist aphorism (n) discourse (n) resentment (n) in jeopardy (adj phrase)

Meaning a brief statement of truth; an adage a verbal exchange; a logical conversation a feeling of anger or indignation

in danger; vulnerable an interactive system or process; the workings and structure of dynamic (n) a relationship detrimental (adj) harmful noticeable; significant tangible (adj) to predict and prepare for anticipate (v) very challenging; fearsome daunting (adj) remuneration (n) the act of paying back a debt related to money and payment pecuniary (adj)

Skill B Q2-Practice 6 Step3 Wordlist Meaning a belief; an opinion perception (n) the condition of being highly respected prestige (n) desired; sought after coveted (adj) translate into to equal; to produce (v phrase) a thing or person that stands as an example exemplar (n) famous renowned (adj) to provide a benefit in exchange for work or suffering compensate (v) to get; to achieve; to earn garner (v) an act against a rule or principle violation (n) enough for a given purpose or need sufficient (adj)