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Economics Social Studies Starters
Economics – Social Studies Starters
Peremptory: not giving
someone an opportunity to
show why they should not
comply.
Week 1 Monday
Economics – Social Studies Starters
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
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
Economics – Social Studies Starters
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
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
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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