Full Cicada Moon Vocabulary Study Guide

Full Cicada Moon Vocabulary Study Guide

By Patricia Kemp

Attain-verb

• 1. succeed in achieving (something that one desires and has worked for): "clarify your objectives and ways of attaining them"

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Crescent- noun

• 1. the curved sickle shape of the waxing or waning moon: "the moon was a slender crescent"

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Gibbous- adjective

• 1. (of the moon) having the observable illuminated part greater than a semicircle and less than a circle.

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Phase-​ each of the aspects of the moon or a planet, according to the amount of its illumination, especially the new moon, the first quarter, the full moon, and the last quarter.

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Wane-​ verb

• 1. (of the moon) has a progressively smaller part of its visible surface illuminated so that it appears to decrease in size.

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Waxing Moon-waxing moon [ ′waks·iŋ ′mün] (astronomy) The moon is between new and full when its visible part is increasing.

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Mission-noun

• 1.an important assignment carried out for political, religious, or commercial purposes, typically involving travel:

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Relocate-​ verb

• 1. move to a new place and establish one's home or business there: "distribution staff will be relocated to Holland"

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Spatial-adjective

• 1.relating to or occupying space:"the spatial distribution of population"

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Telescope-​noun

• 1.an optical instrument designed to make distant objects appear nearer, containing an arrangement of lenses, or of curved mirrors and lenses, by which rays of light are collected and focused and the resulting image magnified.

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Trajectory-noun

• 1.the path followed by a projectile flying or an object moving under the action of given forces:

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