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| Monday | English & Social Stud. | Jargon - n. confused, unintelligible speach or highly technical speech |
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| Math & Science | Mean - another word for average. Mean almost always refers to the arithmetic mean. |
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| Tuesday | English & Social Stud. | Labyrinth - n. a maze | |
| Math & Science | Median (of a set of numbers) - the value for which half the numbers are larger and half are smaller. If there are two middle numbers, the median is th earithmetic mean of the two middle numbers. | ||
| Wednesday | English & Social Stud. | Mediocre - adj. ordinary |
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| Math & Science | Mode - the number that occurs the most often in a list. For example: 5 is the mode of 2,3,3,4,5,5,5 |
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| Thursday | English & Social Stud. | Nocturnal - adj. of or pertaining to the night |
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| Math & Science | Arithmetic Mean - the most commonly used type of average. Add the numbers in the set and divide the sum by n. |
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| Friday | English & Social Stud. | Obsolete - adj. no longer practiced or accepted |
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| Math & Science | Percentile - the number such that n% of the data is less than tat number. For example: a student whos SAT score is in the 78th percentile hs scored higher than 78% of the students taking the test. |
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