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Belleville High SchoolEconomics Social Studies Starters
Economics – Social Studies Starters
Peremptory: not giving someone an opportunity to show why they should not comply.
Week 1 Monday
Tenacity: Persistent in maintaining, adhering to, or seeking something valued or desired
Week 1 Tuesday
Economics – Social Studies Starters
Acute: Marked intellectual perception especially of subtle distinctions.
Week 1 Wednesday
Economics – Social Studies Starters
Instill: To impart or teach gradually over a period of time
Week 1 Thursday
Economics – Social Studies Starters
Yield: (in Econ) the amount of money that can be expected to be made from an investment.
Week 1 Friday
Economics – Social Studies Starters
Anticipate: To give advance thought, discussion, or treatment
Week 2 Monday
Economics – Social Studies Starters
Approximate: Located close together; nearly correct or exact
Week 2 Tuesday
Economics – Social Studies Starters
Mediocre: Of moderate or low quality, value, ability, or performance
Week 2 Wednesday
Economics – Social Studies Starters
Irascible: Marked by hot temper and easily provoked anger.
Week 2 Thursday
Economics – Social Studies Starters
Travesty: To make a feeble or ridiculous imitation
Week 2 Friday
Economics – Social Studies Starters
Incentives--Something that elicits a predictable behavior.
Week 3 Monday
Consumer--One that utilizes economic goods
Week 3 Tuesday
Factors of production--The resources people have for producing goods and services to satisfy their wants.
Week 3 Wednesday
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Distributor--One that markets a commodity; a wholesaler
Week 3 Thursday
Supply--The act or process of filling a want or need. Also: the amount of a good/service available.
Week 3 Friday
VOCAB LEGEND
X = REDO
W = Weak, wont happen again
K = not the worst I have ever seen
CHECK SYMBOL = good
PERFECT = PERFECT
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Ostracize: To exile or exclude from a group by common consent
Week 4 Monday
Economics – Social Studies Starters
Superfluous: Exceeding what is sufficient or necessary; not needed
Week 4 Tuesday
Economics – Social Studies Starters
Opulent: Showing in great wealth. Amply or plentifully provided for. Having a large estate or property
Week 4 Wednesday
Economics – Social Studies Starters
Repudiation: Refusing to have anything to do with; to reject as unauthorized or as having no binding force
Week 4 Thursday
Economics – Social Studies Starters
Lucrative--Producing wealth; Profitable.
Week 4 Friday
Unit 2 Journal # 1 (goes in binder)
Using complete sentences (at LEAST 5):
What would YOU like to learn about in economics that will be useful to YOU?
Obtuse--Lacking sharpness of sensibility or intellect; difficult to comprehend; not clear or precise in thought or expression
Week 5 Monday
Subservient--Useful in an inferior capacity; serving to promote some end, subordinate Week 5 Tuesday
Staunch--To check or stop the flowing of; to stop up
Week 5 Wednesday
Conducive--Tending to promote or assist
Week 5 Thursday
Capitalism--An economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments, prices, production, and distribution of goods
Week 5 Friday
Consumer--One that purchases and utilizes economic goods and services
Week 6 Monday
Census--A count of the population and a property evaluation; a periodic governmental count of population
Week 6 Tuesday
Factors of production--The resources people have for producing goods and services to satisfy their wants.
Week 6 Wednesday
Distributor--One that markets a commodity; a wholesaler
Week 6 Thursday
Distribution--To divide among several or many; the marketing or merchandising of commodities
Week 6 Friday
Corporation--A body formed and authorized by law to act as a single person although constituted by one or more persons.
Week 7 Monday
Costs--The amount or equivalent paid or charged for something; the outlay or expenditure made to achieve an object
Week 7 Tuesday
Deflation--A contraction in the volume of available money or credit that results in a general decline in prices
Week 7 Wednesday
Earning--To receive as return for work done or services rendered; to bring in by way of return
Week 7 Thursday
Excise tax--A charge on certain goods, such as alcoholic beverages, gasoline, and tobacco products.
Week 7 Friday
Incentives--Something that incites or has a tendency to incite a specific action
Week 8 Monday
Monetary policy--Regulation of the money supply by the Federal Reserve System
Week 8 Tuesday
Fees--A fixed charge; a sum paid or charged for a service
Week 8 Wednesday
Fiscal policy--A government’s decision about the amount of money it spends and the amount of money it collects in taxes.
Week 8 Thursday
Foreign policy--Plans for guiding military and economic help to other nations.
Week 8 Friday
Supply--The act or process of filling a want or need
Week 9 Monday
Imports--To bring from a foreign or external source; to bring merchandise into a place or country from another country.
Week 9 Tuesday
Demand--Willingness and ability to purchase a commodity or service; the quantity wanted at a specified price and time
Week 9 Wednesday
Investment--The outlay of money usually for income or profit; the sum invested or the property purchased
Week 9 Thursday
Market--The course of commercial activity by which the exchange of commodities is effected; the available supply of or potential demand for specified goods or services
Week 9 Friday
Surpluses--The amount that remains when use or need is satisfied; an excess of receipts over disbursements
Week 10 Monday
Income tax--A tax on the net income of an individual or a business
Week 10 Tuesday
Loss--Failure to gain, win, obtain, or utilize; When the cost of something exceeds its selling price
Week 10 Wednesday
Opportunity Cost--Benefit given up when scarce resources are used for one purpose instead of the next best purpose.
Week 10 Thursday
Ownership--The state, relation, or fact of having to hold as property; to have power or mastery over
Week 10 Friday
Price--Amount of money given or set as consideration for the sale of a specified thing
Week 11 Monday
Producers--one that grows agricultural products or manufactures materials into articles of use
Week 11 Tuesday
Profit--The excess of returns over expenditure in a transaction or series of transactions
Week 11 Wednesday
Property taxes--A tax on land or buildings
Week 11 Thursday
Rebate--A return of a part of a payment
Week 11 Friday
Sales tax--Tax levied on the sale of goods & services that is usually a percentage of the purchase price and collected by the seller
Week 12 Monday
Shortages--Lack or deficit
Week 12 Tuesday
Subsidy--A grant by a government to a private person or company to assist an enterprise deemed advantageous to the public
Week 12 Wednesday
Processes--A series of actions or operations conducing to an end; a continuous operation or treatment especially in manufacture
Week 12 Thursday
Big government – a negative term, used to describe government programs in areas where it is believed government should not be involved
Week 12 Friday
Authority – the power to enforce laws, exact obedience, command, determine, or judge; one that is invested with this power
Week 13 Monday
Bipartisan – a cooperative effort by two political parties
Week 13 Tuesday
Citizenship--The status of being a native or
naturalized person who owes allegiance to a
government and is entitled to protection from it
Week 13 Wednesday
City council--The legislative body of a city
Week 13 Thursday
Boom – a time of economic progress
Week 13 Friday
Week 14 Monday
Candidate – a person seeking an office, prize, or honor
County--The largest territorial division for local government within a state
of the United States
Week 14 Tuesday
Brief – a condensation or an abstract of a larger document or series of documents
Week 14 Wednesday
Campaign – an organized effort to win an election; to strive for elected office
Week 14 Thursday
Caucus – an informal meeting of local party members to discuss candidates and choose delegates to the party’s convention
Week 14 Friday
Candidate – a person seeking an office, prize, or honor
Week 15 Monday
Caucus – an informal meeting of local party members to discuss candidates and choose delegates to the party’s convention
Week 15 Tuesday
Civil disobedience – refusal to obey civil laws in order to induce governmental change, characterized by nonviolence
Week 15 Wednesday
Civil liberties – fundamental individual rights, such as freedom of speech and religion, protected by law against unwarranted governmental or other interference
Week 15 Thursday
Coattails – the power of a popular candidate to gather support for other candidates in his or her party; winning candidates are said to have coattails when they drag candidates for lower office along with them to victory
Week 15 Friday
Commerce – the buying and selling of goods
Week 16 Monday
Common good – good for everyone
Week 16 Tuesday
Conflict – to be in opposition with someone or something.
Week 16 Wednesday
Constituency – the body of voters represented by a specific elected official
Week 16 Thursday
Covenant – a binding agreement
Week 16 Friday
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