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Olympics Vocabulary Word List (308)
A)Activation, Active, Aerobics, Agent, Aggressive, Alternate, Announcement, Assist, Assistance, Attendance, Attraction, Averages
B)Balance, Ball, Basketball, Beauty, Berth, Best, Bicycle, Bid, Blood, Blood pressure, Body, Bones, Bounce, Boxing, Breath, Breathe, Bronze medal, Butterfly stroke, Buzzer
C)Captivate, Cardiovascular, Champion, Championship, Charisma, Charm, Coach, Collapse, Competition, Conditioning, Conference, Contract, Conversion, Convert, Coordination, Courage, Curfew, Curling, Cycle, Cycling
D)Defense, Defensive, Diet, Disease, Distraction, Division, Doctor, Downhill, Dribble, Drive, Drugs, Dumbbells
E)Elevation, Endurance, Energy, Error(s), Event, Exalt, Exaltation, Excellence, Exemplary, Exemption, Exercise, Exertion
F)Finalist, Firepower, Fit, Flex, Force(s), Foul, Fragrances, Framework, Free throw, Fumble, Function
G)Games, Goal, Gold medal, Grip, Gymnasium
H)Halftime, Hammer, Handlebar, Health, Healthy, Herbs, Hit, Homerun, Hoops, Hygiene, Hygienic
I)Ice-skating, Imagination, Individual, Infection, Injunction, Injury, Insulation, Interception, Interpretation
J)Jargon, Joy, Judge, Judo, Jump, Jump rope, Jumping jack
K)Kick, Kinetics
L)Leader, League, Legend, Losing, Loss, Lucky, Lumbar
M)Magic, Manager, Margin, Massage, Masseur, Mat, Maximize, Measure, Medal, Medication, Memory, Metabolic, Minimize, Miss, Moisture, Moisturize, Monitor, Motivate, Motivation, Muscles
N)Nemesis, Nervousness, Nurse
O)Offensive, Official, Opportunity, Opt, Optimism, Option, Outbreak
P)Panic, Paraffin, Pass, Pedal, Penalties, Percentage, Perform, Performance, Perspiration, Pessimism, Petrify, Physiotherapy, Pitcher, Player(s), Points, Poll, Position(ing), Possession, Potent, Power, Power play, Practice, Prevention, Professional, Program, Promising, Protect, Protection, Pulley, Puncture, Punt
Q)Quads, Quality, Quest, Quick, Quintessential, Quiver
R)Rank(ing), Rebound, Recognition, Record, Recovery, Recruit, Regulation(s), Rehabilitation, Relax, Reserve, Resilient, Resistance, Risk, Role, Row, Run(ning), Rush(ing)
S)S: sanitary, Saves, Scare, Scenario, Scent, Scheme, Score(s), Scoreboard, Scoring, Season, Sedentary, Sensible, Shape up, Shot, Shut-out, Silver medal, Size, Skating, Skiing, Slide, Soccer, Speculation, Spin(ning), Spirit, Sport(s), Sportsmanship, Squad, Squat, Stability, Stamina, Standing(s), Statistics, Strategy, Streak, Strength, Stretch(ing), Stride, Strong, Sugar, Superstition, Supine, Support, Supremacy, Suspension, Symptoms
T)Tackle, Team, Teammate, Technical, Terror, Test(ing), Therapeutic, Therapy, Timeout, Timing, Tone, Torch, Torso, Touchdown, Tournament, Trainer, Training, Transform(ation), Tremors, Trot, Turnover(s)
U)Unbelievable, Unique, Unrestricted, Unusual
V)Vaccination, Valiant, Valor, Vault, Vibration, Victory, Violation, Votes
W)W: waive, Warm up, Watchful, Weary, Weigh, Weights, Win, Wince, Winning, Wisdom, Work out, World
X)X-rays
Y)Yards, Yoga, Youth
Z)Zeal, Zealous
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Summer Olympic Sports that Americans tend to prefer
Based on a survey of more than 1,000 people age 18+; respondents could choose more than one ---- source: taylorpr.com

Gymnastics = 69%
Swimming/Diving = 62%
Track & Field = 46%
Basketball = 35%
Baseball = 32%


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