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• Word of the Day - entail

  Published: July 30, 2007, 3:08 pm

  Tags: Vocabulary, Wotd

  entailThe dictionary definition leads toward many references to real estate and such, when I ran across it and decided to include it for WOTD it was in the context of "include" in the question "What do the requirements for the job entail?"This works with the previous WOTDs when discussing points such as "What will acquiring your goal entail."

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• Word of the Day -acquire

  Published: July 27, 2007, 8:55 pm

  Tags: Vocabulary, Wotd

  acquire(Click above for link to definitions)What do you need to provide you with the incentive to acquire your goals? What goal represents the epitome of what you want to accomplish?A tool that may be helpful in organizing goals is the "pocket mod" which can allow your students a way to see goals written out in a concrete fashion with some real

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• Word of the Day - incentive

  Published: July 26, 2007, 2:43 pm

  Tags: Vocabulary, Wotd

  incentive(Click above for link to definitions)What a great concept for back to school. Can spark conversation about goal setting for the class/day/week/quarter/trimester/semester/year. What kind of incentive is there to focusing in your class and trying to achieve a grade of their/your/their parents' choosing? Maybe there's not any kind of

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• Word of the Day - epitome

  Published: July 24, 2007, 2:46 pm

  Tags: Vocabulary, Wotd

  goal with WOTD is that I'll try to find usable words and then give ways to tie them together. That's the idea anyway...WOTD 1epitome(click above for link to definitions)I love this word. This word is the epitome of how difficult the English language is to learn. There is no way without a dictionary or hearing it that you would ever guess

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• Word of the Day -volatile

  Published: August 1, 2007, 3:01 pm

  Tags: Vocabulary, Wotd

  volatileClick above to link to definition

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• Word of the Day

  Published: August 2, 2007, 2:54 pm

  Tags: Vocabulary, Wotd

  portfolioclick above for link to definitionI've been reading the financial pages, which is where volatile and portfolio came from.

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