Student-Driven Vocabulary List #4
VOCABULARY LIST#4: grammar, sheepishly, fibrous, crucial, faltering, perception, vitality, lark, scold, acknowledgement, perpetuity.
Make sure you check the board tomorrow to see if your word was chosen. You need to post the sentence, the definition, and some other forms of the word with sentences for them to help each other out. Also, we could use some nice posters to help out our classmates.
thanks jacob.
FYI Im informing students to use quizlet to study for vocab every week here is the link below:
Quizlet ~ http://quizlet.com/30367326/test
Acknowledgement- noun
Definition: Acceptance of the truth or existence of something.
Sentence:” Sent the Guests had the acknowledgement of having a better idea”.
Paparazzi Princess
—-This sentence seems incomplete. Look back into the text and fix this, please.
By: Reginae Carter and Brea Williams
Page #145
These are the rest of the words that are missing. I looked up definitions and sentence.
Acknowledgement- acceptance of the truth or existence of something. (n.)
“A defendant who is served with a claim form must file an acknowledgment of service.”
Lark Sentence – “This year second – perhaps i’m starting to get better at this gardening lark.”
Scold-remonstrate with or rebuke (someone) angrily. (v.)
—-What does remonstrate mean?
—-What does rebuke mean?
“Your teacher should scold you for copying your homework off the internet.”
I’m doing the vocabulary words that were’nt up there so that people can finish their VISS charts and Artifacts!!!!!
FROM~ Jacob 3 11/7/13 Moshé
Word: acknowledgement
Part of Speech: (n)
Sentence: “there was no acknowledgment of the family’s trauma.”
Definition: acceptance of the truth or existence of something.
Word: lark
Part of Speech: (n)
Sentence: “This year second – perhaps I’m starting to get better at this gardening lark.”
Definition: A prank or an adventure that is found funny.
Word: scold
Part of Speech: (v)
Sentence: “Mom took Anna away, scolding her for her bad behavior.”
Definition: To reprimand or criticize harshly and usually angrily.
Guys we need the rest of the words! Try your best to get them up there!😀😀😀
Sheepishly – adv. Embarrassed as by being aware of a fault
“Besides, he admitted sheepishly he was lonesome after we left”
grammar – noun – “the whole system and structure of a language or of languages in general, usually taken as consisting of syntax and morphology (including inflections) and sometimes also phonology and semantics.”
— google dictionary
“Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.” – Ferdinand de Saussure
Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/grammar.html#k0TEHituukXOQqP8.99
I this word on the list?
Perception-(n.) – The ability to see,hear,or become aware of something through the senses
Sentence ~ “Write about what you saw and put in lots of sensory perception.” (The Shadow Maker” By Joan Lowery Nixon, 78)
Perpetuity (noun) The quality or condition of being eternal; time without end.
“The planet of Krikkit was to be encased for perpetuity in an envelope of Slo-Time inside which life would continue almost infinitely slowly.”
Life, the Universe and Everything
By: Douglas Adams
Page #: 381
Definition:
Vitality- The state of being strong and active (n.)
Sentence:
“Vitality just poured off them, waves of energy that filled him with drunken dizziness. (Cassandra Clare, City of Bones, 3)
You guys need to post what you need to post. I will add to your information to help you all out. Here is a sentence from my book, The One Tree, that has the term acknowledgement in it, “The Master bowed in acknowledgement, started toward the wheeldeck” (The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant: The One Tree by Stephen R. Donaldson).
Fibrous
Sixty feet above Roger, several nuts, fibrous lumps as big as rugby balls, were loosened from their stems.
fibrous(adj) – consisting of or characterized by fibers
Hey all, this definition, although it has a word root in it, is OK for studying purposes.
We need:
Title of Book
Author
Page Number
Word: Crucial (adjective)
Definition: Of the utmost importance.
—–???Would you please define “UTMOST”???
Sentence: “Finally and crucially, Galileo noticed that Venus does go through the phases that Copernicus predicted… (From Ptolemy’s Spheres to Dark Energy, Farndon, Page 13)
—–???Where is the rest of the sentence? Or is this the whole thing???
Faltering-(v)start to lose strength or momentum.
“With a faltering voice and a gaze too self-conscious to meet mine, he stammers out one line and then another.”
(Bloom, Maggie. “Good Luck, Fatty?!.” chapter 13, pg 334
Word: Crucial (adjective)
Definition: Of the utmost importance.
Utmost – most extreme; greatest
Sentence: “Finally and crucially, Galileo noticed that Venus does go through the phases that Copernicus predicted, as our view from Earth changes.” (From Ptolemy’s Spheres to Dark Energy, Farndon, Page 13)