Change: Focus Word Part: hypo - under, belowhypodermic - under the skinhypothermia - condition of reduced temperatureMarch 16-20, 2009 Focus Word Part: gram - write, written Monogram - one or more single letters (such as initials) used to represent a nameCardiogram - record of the heart's movements   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 322)

Change: Microscopic - too small to be seen with the naked eyeMicrobiology - the study of minute forms of lifeMicrocosm - small worldMarch 2-4, 2009Focus Word Part: metr, metr/ometrology - science of weights and measuresoptometry - testing of eyes to measure visionphychometric -   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 260)

Change: mesodermic - related to the middle layer of the skinmesotherm - plant that requires a moderate degree of heatFebruary 16-20, 2009Focus Word Part: Geo - earth, groundgeology - study of the earth's structuregeothermal - related to the heat of the earth's interiorgeographer -   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 194)

Change: February 2-6, 2009Focus Word Part: peri - aroundPerimeter - circumference or distance around a figurePericardial - situated around the heartPerihelion - point closest to the Sun in a planet's orbitJanuary 26-30, 2009anthropology - the study of mankindanthropoid - resembling mananthropopathic -   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 131)

Change: Perihelion - point closest to the Sun in a planet's orbitJanuary 26-30, 2009anthropology - the study of mankindanthropoid - resembling mananthropopathic - relating human feelings to something not humanJanuary 19-23, 2009Bibliography - a list of booksJanuary 12-16, 2009astronomy - science   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 100)

Change: 19-23, 2009Bibliography - a list of booksJanuary 12-16, 2009astronomy - science dealing with the order of celestial bodiesastronautics - technology of spacecraft design and buildingJanuary 5-9, 2009psychology - science of the mindpsychobiology - study of relationship betweenbetween biological processes and behavior   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 48)

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Change: Any of numerous natural or synthetic compounds of usually high molecular weight consisting of repeated linked units, each a relatively light and simple molecule.December 8-12TaxonomyThe classification of organisms in an ordered system that indicates natural relationships.December 1-5OxidizeTo combine with oxygen; make into an oxide.   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 309)

Change: The oxidative process in living cells by which the chemical energy of organic molecules is released in metabolic steps involving the consumption of oxygen and the liberation of carbon dioxide and water.October 27-31Thermodynamics The branch of physics that deals with   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 88)

Change: A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone or by the locus of points equidistant from a fixed line and a fixed point not on the line.Week of Sept. 22, 2008InterpolateTo insert   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 6)