Key Vocabulary Contact Sports

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When the snow first began to fall, everyone thought it was beautiful. However, after five days of snow, so much had built up that people couldn’t even make it to their mailboxes. The huge total amount of snow meant people ended up hating the snow they once found beautiful.

• collision

• chronic

• cumulative

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Dentists warn their patients that not brushing and flossing regularly will weaken their teeth’s enamel and could lead to permanent damage.

• impair

• paramount

• trend

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Phones are so common that students actually spend more time communicating on social media than face to face. This is not only true for one group of students; it appears to be true for just about every student in every grade level.

• Collision

• Prevalence

• Cognitive

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On days when Lachlan had a long run for his marathon training, the pain in his knees reappeared. Every time he thought he had overcome the injury, it came back.

• Chronic

• Paramount

• Cumulative

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At the beginning of cross country season, Coach Hak stressed the importance of strength training and conditioning. She told her runners that only putting in the work at the gym would let them achieve their goals.

• Collision

• Prevalant

• Paramount

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Diedra and Natasha were both running to catch the same ball in their flag football game. Unfortunately, they were both looking only at the ball, and they ran into each other.

• Cognitive

• Collision

• Trend

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As the class looked at the graph of purchases at a local business, Ms. Two Elk asked them to point out what they noticed about the different lines. The students said that the lines moved upwards from left to right, which showed an increase in purchases over time.

• Epidemic

• Trend

• Impair

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Paloma used her best reasoning to solve the riddles so her team could make it out of the Escape Room before any of the other teams.

• Collision

• Cognitive

• Chronic

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After Louis realized that many of his livestock were getting sick at the same time, he began to wonder if something was wrong with his animal feed. By the time he discovered the source of the illness, it had spread to the other farms in the village.

• Epidemic

• Cumulative

• Impair

Santiago discovered a ___ in his running habits: he could follow a daily running routine for about two weeks, but he always started slacking off in week three.

• Chronic

• Trend

• Collision