6th Grade Vocabulary

1. A ___ is a dispute or argument in which people express strong opposing views. When a popular TV show kills off a well-loved character, there's bound to be a lot of ___.
4. When someone is ___, they've thrown the rules out of the window.
5. To ___ is to move back and forth, like when you ___, one minute thinking you'll stay home, planning to go meet your friends the next, until you finally make your decision.
10. When you ___ something, you're making a judgment, one that most likely results from some degree of analysis.
11. ___ is similar to perfection in that both words suggest that something could not possibly be better. However, perfection describes something that's flawless, such as a beautiful sunset. ___, on the other hand, is more about accuracy, like computing the exact second that the perfect sunset will occur.
13. To ___ means to get or come to own something. You ___ an education by your own effort.

2. The noun form first appeared in Lacroix's Differential and Integral Calculus in 1816, guaranteeing that math students would be solving for the ___ x for generations to come.
3. If you know that a rebel is someone who fights authority, then you won’t be surprised that a ___ is something similar.
6. If you make bad decisions in the morning after drinking coffee, you might conclude that caffeine tends to ___ your judgment. When you __ something, you damage it or make it work poorly.
7. ___ means to make smaller or lesser. If you cover a lightbulb with a dark lamp shade, the light from the lamp will ___.
8. Lawyers are not allowed to bring certain types of evidence such as rumors into a trial because it might ___ the jury.
9. In science, a ___ is an idea or explanation that you then test through study and experimentation. It is a well educated and/or researched guess.
12. Say you move to a country where everyone cooks with lots of hot peppers. At first the food scalds your tongue, but over time you ___ — you change in a way that allows you to deal with the new circumstances.