Kaenan Husen

Vocabulary Words 1- 85
1) Genre- A category of artistic composition or music
2) Prejudice- A preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience
3) Imagery- Visually descriptive or figurative language
4) Procrastination- The act of pushing something off until the last minute
5) Symbolism- Using symbols to show meaning in something
6) Productivity- The state of producing something
7) Metaphor- A figure of speech
8) Adolescence- The time in someone’s life when they are young
9) Racism- The Belief that all people of a race have the same characteristics
10) Style- A version of something that is different than other versions
11) Conflict/ Resolution- Conflicts are disagreements and resolutions are solutions in the
problems
12) Patience- Waiting for something without being angered
13) Extended Family- Your family that is out of your immediate family such as a cousin
14) Theme- The subject of a conversation
15) Healthy Competition- When competition makes you want to participate for fun
16) Tone- The overall quality of a sound
17) Life Experience- An experience that has impacted your life
18) Setting- A place or a Terrain
19) Endorphins- Any group of hormones in the brain
20) Refined Grains- Grains that have been smashed down and grinded
21) Self-improvement- Improving yourself and gaining self confidence
22) Health Care System- A system where health care is provided
23) Point-of-view- Your own and personal opinion on something
24) AIDS- A STD
25) Proactive/reactive- Proactive is acting positively while reactive is acting negatively
26) Landfill- A place to dispose waste
27) Siblings- People that you are related to in your immediate family
28) Win-win- is when everyone wins
29) Obesity- Being far too overweight for your personal body
30) Protein- Any class of nitrogenous organic compounds
31) Discrimination- The unjust or prejudicial treatment of people
32) Emerging Disease- A new disease that is becoming well known and has no treatment
33) Slacker- A person who avoids work or effort
34) Healthy Diet- A diet that compliments your type of body
35) Antioxidant- A substance that inhibits oxidation
36) Win-lose- When one person wins that the other looses
37) Recycling- The process of reusing something
38) Vegetarian- A person who only eats plants
39) Celebrating Differences- Being happy that you are different that other people
40) Infectious Disease- A disease obtained by infection
41) Lose-win- When you allow yourself to lose and let someone else win
42) Teamwork- Working with your team to get things done
43) Appetite- A natural desire to satisfy a bodily need
44) Carbohydrate- Any large group of organic compounds occurring in food
45) Developing Nation- A nation that has just come to be and needs help
46) Catastrophe- An event that causes great suffering
47) Dehydration- Lacking water in your bodily system
48) Chronic Disease- A recurring disease
49) Culture- The arts and other achievements created from people
50) Lose-lose- When you lose and cause others to lose too
51) Strengths- The areas that you have power in
52) SYNERGY- coming together to create ideas
53) Time Quadrants- areas of the world that have specific time
54) ITHEMBA- Hope
55) Values- Specific things that you keep in special places
56) SIMCHA- Joy
57) Visualization- seeing things in your mind
58) CHOICES- When you choose to do certain things
59) Ambiance- The feel of a certain area
60) Nutrients- A substance that provides nourishment
61) Affirmation- To affirm someone and make them feel good
62) JOY- Feeling happy
63) Collaborative Learning- Learning with other people
64) Learning Team Roles- Having a role in teams to learn
65) Calories- Energy
66) Accountability- Keeping someone accountable
67) Paradigm Shift- A change in thinking
68) Perspective- The way that you view or think about something
69) Traditional Learning- Learning in a classroom through long lectures
70) Excessive- More than that of which is needed
71) Debrief- The translation of something to make it easier to understand
72) Classroom Design- The way that a classroom is setup to give it an ambiance
73) Reflect/connect- Looking back on things what you have done and then conversing
with other people about it
74) Optimism- Always having a positive attitude on things
75) Saturated Fat- Fat that has been put in water and has absorbed all that it can
76) Cognitive- Of or relating to cognition
77) Destiny- A place or state that you are to end up and is guided by supernatural forces
78) Prioritize- To make a list of things that you need to do and have the most important
things first
79) Dietary Guidelines- Guidelines on how you are supposed to diet
80) Integrity- Being honest and having strong moral qualities
81) Selective Listening- listening only to what you want to hear
82) Habitat- The natural home or habitat of an organism
83) Knowledge- Facts skills and information acquired through experience and education
84) Body, Mind, Spirit- It is how your physical body, your mind and your spirit all work
together.
85) Assertiveness- Having or showing a strong or forceful personality
86) Balance- An even distribution of weight or other objects
87) Attitudes- A settled way of thinking about something
88) Visualization- To see something in your mind
89) Mission Statement- A statement that tells people what you want to get done
90) Implementation- To use a something to put an implement in the appropriate spot
91) Social Network- A website that is used to talk to people on the Internet
92) Communication- A tool to show people your ideas and understand theirs
93) Trans Fat- Fat that has been transferred from one thing to another
94) Jigsaw- A type of puzzle that needs many pieces put together to complete it
95) Interdependence- Dependent on each other
96) Storyboard- A sequence of drawings that tell a story
97) Conscience- A feeling inside of you that controls your moral values
98) Socializing- Being social and talking with other people
99) Diversity- A broad difference between many things
100) Observation- Something that you either see, smell, feel, taste or hear.
101) Vitamin- A nutritional object that helps your body grow
102) Disorders- A state of confusion and doing things that are unusual
103) Team Process- Is the process that you and your team used to accomplish your goal
104) Expectations- It is something that people believe that you will do
105) Dysfunctional- A state of being when you are unable to function properly
106) Learning Team Task- A task that is learned in a group
107) Action Plan- A plan that covers your process and states what and when you are
going to do something
108) Consensus- When everyone agrees upon something
109) Vegan- A person who only eats plants or things that come from plants
110) Habits- A recurring activity that someone does impulsively
111) Role Responsibility- Is what you have been given to do and are responsible for
112) Initiative- The ability to be able to assess things independently
113) Leadership Skills- The skills that help you lead people
114) Principles- Guidelines that you’re personally set for yourself to abide by
115) Unsaturated Fat- Fat that has not been soaked in water or a liquid
116) WebQuest- Is a from of assessment on the Internet
117) Moderation- Doing something in a certain pattern that allows you to do it only how
much you need to
118) Infectious Disease- A disease obtained through infection
119) Discrimination- The act of treating someone different without reason
120) Concentration- The action of focusing upon something
121) Peer Pressure- When your peers tell you to do something that you do not want to do
122) Willpower- The will to do what you want
123) Commitment- Saying that you are going to do something and sticking to it to the
end
124) Analyze- Examine in detail and methodically
125) Authority in Learning- Having authority while you learn and being able to gain
authority from learning
126) Brainstorming- Creating many ideas to a certain prompt or problem
127) Food Pyramid- A pyramid that shows information about food
128) Communication Plan- A plan to communicate with other people so you can
accomplish a task
129) Facilitator- A person who makes sure that everyone is on task and that everything
goes smoothly
130) iFolio- A place where we put all of our work that we have done in ITU
131) Summative Assessment- An assessment that summarizes all that you have learned
and assesses you to see if you really know what you have been taught
132) Rubric- A heading or direction that tells you what you need for a specific thing
133) Nutritional Information- Information that tells you all about the nutritional facts in a
certain type of food
134) WRAP- A way to summarize something that you have just learned W: who, what,
when, why R: reasoning, retrospect, recognize, relate, rational, reflect, report A: apply,
assess, application, analyze, assumptions, action plan, active, argument P: point-of-view,
probable, predict, power
135) Duration- A certain time that something lasts
136) Innovative- A way to do something that is new and not many people think of doing
137) Expectations- A standard that someone believes that you will fulfill
138) Contribute- To add on to or give something to a specific object or idea