Week 4

"Educators once opposed raising bilingual children. Experts now say it’s beneficial."

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Word bank

cognitive- pertaining to the mental processes of perception, memory, reasoning, memory.
eg. ""For the person experiencing cognitive decline, the slow loss of coherent speech will be compounded by a declining ability to draw conclusions"
spectroscopy- A variety or instance of such the study of spectra.
eg. "Dr. Wollaston, in 1802, as we have seen stood upon the threshold of spectroscopy without knowing it."
to stumble upon- to discover, find, come across, encounter, run across
eg. "History relates that they stumbled upon a magnificent waterfall."
imperceptible- very subtle, slight, gradual.
eg. "The number of straight men who change their name upon marriage, remains so tiny as to be imperceptible."
dementia-  loss of intellectual capacity, personality integration, due to damage to neurons in the brain.
eg. "One of the big problems with dementia is personality change."to entwine- to twine about, around, with or together
eg. "Military and religious imagery entwine in songs."