Vocabulary 2QTR WKS 8to9
The new vocabulary list is taking shape RIGHT NOW. Here are your due dates.
- VOCABULARY CHARTS are due MONDAY 1/17/2011.
- VOCABULARY ARTIFACTS are due WEDNESDAY 1/19/2011.
- Your next VOCABULARY TEST will be on 1/24/2011.
Today in class, you read to find one (1) word in your own personal reading that I might have chosen to include on a vocabulary list. The following pertinent information had to be recorded in your notebook:
- The actual sentence from the passage with your word underlined with proper citation (Book or Magazine or Article Title and Issue, Author, Page #)
- Part of Speech (as used in the sentence)
- Definition (as used in the sentence)
- Forms of the word (and their parts of speech)
Tomorrow, we will decide on the final list of words. With your help, I will be selecting 5 words from each block for a total of 15 words on the list. You better get ready for the test this time.
The master list for the Vocabulary Test that will occur on January 24th, 2011 will be posted (1/14/2011). If your word is chosen, you must post to this discussion the pertinent information for your word.
- cynical
- approbation
- flamboyant
- prevail
- irritable
- plasma
- exuberant
- lobbyist
- sinister
- cathedral
- polygamy
- prejudice
- dismember
- blithely
- degrade
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Exuberantly
POS:Adverb
Sentence:Jackie darted at her, kissing her exuberantly.
Author:Agatha Christie
Book: Death On the Nile
Page 16
Definition:Extremely good; overflowing; plentiful
Exuberant:Adj
Overexuberant:Adj
Unexuberant:Adj
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Degraded- 1.reduced in rank, position, reputation, ETC.
SENTANCE: 1. He felt degraded by the trivial tasks assigned to him. 2. The degraded level of the modern novel.
PARTS OF SPEECH: adjective
FORM: Degradedly- adverb, dergradedness- noun, undegraded-adjective
SYNONYMS:1. disagree, dishonor, discredit 2. abase, vitiate.
Blithely: Without thought or regard; carefree; headless (adj.,)
“Our children will not survive our habits of thinking our faiures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do.” – June Jordan
Forms: blitheful adj., blithefuly adv., blitheness n.
Synonyms: happy, mirthful, sprightly, light-hearted.
Word- Blithely
Definition- Joyous, merry ; glad; cheerful
Sentence- Everyone loved her for her blithely spirit.
Part of speech- Adjective
Word- Sinister
Definition- Threatening or portending evil, harm, or trouble.
Sentence- In front of these sinister facts, the first lesson of history is the good of evil.
Part of speech- Adjective
Word- Sinister
Definition- Threatening or portending evil, harm, or trouble .
Sentence- ” In front of these sinister facts, the first lesson of history is the good of evil.” ( Ralph Waldo Emerson )
Part of speech- Adjective
Plasma: Is a state of matter similar to gas in which a cerain portion of the particles are ionized.
Sentence: “I went to go see Dante’s wounds and it was obvious that the plasma bolts did there job. I could see it was still burning through his side like acid. It was enough to where I could even see the man’s ribcage, what a terrible way for a soldier to die” (source?)
What does “ionized” mean? Bonus opportunity here!
Synonym:Blood Plasma
Prejudice- An unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge, thought of reason
Part of speech- Noun
Form- Prejudicedly, adverb
Synonym- Partially, Bias
Sentence- “I have a prejudice against people who print things in a foreign language and add no translation.” (Source?)
Cathedral- The principal church of a diocese, containing the bishops throne
Part of speech- Noun
Forms- Cathedral-like, Adjective
Synonyms- Mosque, Temple, Chapel
Sentence- “He dreamed the he was under the high arches of an old cathedral, amidst a throng of worshippers.” (Source?)
http://flashcards.dictionary.com/deckprofile/view/52203/vocabulary-flash-cards/
Lobbyist: A person who tries to influence legislation on behalf of a special interest; a member of a lobby.
Noun
Sentence: The parents are lobbying to have the age of consent moved to 18.
Synonym: Activist
Word:exuberant
Part of speech:adjective
Definition:abounding in vitality; extremely joyful and vigorous.
Forms:ex·u·ber·ant·ly, adverb
o·ver·ex·u·ber·ant, adjective
o·ver·ex·u·ber·ant·ly, adverb
un·ex·u·ber·ant, adjective
un·ex·u·ber·ant·ly, adverb
Sentence:The exuberant crowd jumped out of its seats when the goal was scored.
Plasma: The liquid part of blood or lymph, as distinguished from the suspended elements.
Noun
Sentence: The plasma screen in the hospital exploded when a nurse accidently spilled blood plasma over it.
Synonym: hemoglobin
Flamboyant: Strikingly bold or brilliant; showy
Adjective
Sentence: Tameka was flamboyant with her over-the-top gestures and physical drama. -Answers.com
Synoym: flashy
Antonym: unflashy
Prevail-verb (used without object)
To be in force, use, or effect; be current
“It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.”— Jimmy Carter
vail·ing verb
pre·vail’er noun
Word:Approbation
“I wrote for their amendment,and not their approbation.”
-Gulliver’s Travels
Noun
The act of approving,espcilly officially
Forms:pre·ap·pro·ba·tion, noun
self-ap·pro·ba·tion, noun
sub·ap·pro·ba·tion, noun
Happy to see I inspired 3 of you to do the right thing. Now, how ’bout you three tell two friends to do the same, and keep passing it along. Students helping students is without parallel.
Word: Irritable
Parts of speech:adjective
Definition: easily irritated or annoyed; readily excited to impatience or anger.
Forms of world and Parts of Speech: irritableness; Noun
Sentence:Then again, those scientists can get kind of irritable, always scrounging for grant money, and never having anyone understand them at parties when they explain what they do.
Synonyms:contentious, fractious, irascible, querulous
-“But Meggie has seen her dismember a mosquito with them, leg by leg, wing by wing.”
-verb
-to tear, pull, cut
-dismembering v
Polygamy. ( Noun ]
Definition – Multiple Marriage.
Polygamist ; Noun .
Polygamous ; Adjective .
“There he combined restorationist biblical polygamy with the idea that one gained a higher status in the next life based on the quantity of wives and offspring in this life.”
http://www.signaturebookslibrary.org/essays/mormonpolygamy.htm
Vocabulary Word- *Cynical*
Sentence From Passage- “Gosh, why do you always have to be such a negative, morbid,
cynical
person?!”
Part Of Speech (As Used In The Sentence)- Adjective
Definition- bitterly or sneeringly distrustful, contemptuous, or pessimistic;
Synonyms- Negative, Derogatory
Forms Of Word(and Parts Of Speech)- Cynically; Adverb