Dictionary Vocab. Activity

Using the vocabulary list below, follow the directions to help you understand the challenging vocabulary in our book, Brave New World.

1. Look up the word in the dictionary and write it down.

2. Check the text (page numbers are provided). How is the word being used?

3. Write a definition in your own words, considering the way the vocabulary is used in the text. Use context clues!

4. Finally, write a sentence using the word. Make sure you are using it with the same meaning as the text!

Conveyors (34)
Antique (35)
Tactual (35)
Contemptuous (35)
Kneading (36)
Stiflingly (37)
Vivid (37)
Compulsory (38)
Inscrutable (39)
Monogamy (40)
Bemoaning (42)
Lurks (44)
Insurmountable (45)
Propaganda (51)
Rapture (59)
Stupor (59)

Dictionary Vocab. Activity

Using the vocabulary list below, follow the directions to help you understand the challenging vocabulary in our book, Brave New World.

1. Look up the word in the dictionary and write it down.

2. Check the text (page numbers are provided). How is the word being used?

3. Write a definition in your own words, considering the way the vocabulary is used in the text. Use context clues!

4. Finally, write a sentence using the word. Make sure you are using it with the same meaning as the text!

Spasmodic (21)
Gratuitous (23)
Smut (23)
Inculcate (28)
Apparatus (31)
Rudimentary (31)
Exquisite (32)
Prejudice (62)
Caste (62)
Excess (67)
Consummation (85)
Satiety (85)
Infantile (98)
Conform (98)
Leering (102)
Revolting (102)

Dictionary Vocab. Activity

Using the vocabulary list below, follow the directions to help you understand the challenging vocabulary in our book, Brave New World.


1. Look up the word in the dictionary and write it down.

2. Check the text (page numbers are provided). How is the word being used?

3. Write a definition in your own words, considering the way the vocabulary is used in the text. Use context clues!

4. Finally, write a sentence using the word. Make sure you are using it with the same meaning as the text!

Stability (3)
Predestine (13)
Condition (13)
Viviparous (24)
Rational (26)
State (29)
Suggestion (29)
Triumph (29)
Consumption (30)
Abnormal (32)
Promiscuous (43)
Obscene (38)
Prohibitions (41)
Remorse (41)
Compelled (49)
Euphoric (53)

Dictionary Vocab. Activity

The vocabulary list below was generated from the film  Crips and Bloods: Made in America

1. Look up the word in the dictionary and write it down.
2. Write a definition in your own words.
3. Finally, write a sentence using the word.

Alienation
Internalize
Disarray
Immune
Cesspool
Riot
Guerilla
Dilapidated
Rubble
Taboo
Salvage
Instigating
Oppression
Incorrigible
Scapegoat
Sporadic

Dictionary Vocab. Activity

Using the vocabulary list below, follow the directions to help you understand the challenging vocabulary in our book, The Once and Future King.


1. Look up the word in the dictionary and write it down.

2. Check the text (page numbers are provided). How is the word being used?

3. Write a definition in your own words, considering the way the vocabulary is used in the text. Use context clues!

4. Finally, write a sentence using the word. Make sure you are using it with the same meaning as the text!

Thronged (457)
Murmuration (457)
Vanish (458)
Delay (455)
Protest (459)
Contemptible (459)
Inhuman (460)
Eternity (461)
Worldly (461)
Astonishment (462)
Deliberate (465)
Prop (463)
Disgraced (465)
Absolved (465)
Boasting (466)
Renounce (466)

Dictionary Vocab. Activity

Using the vocabulary list below, follow the directions to help you understand the challenging vocabulary in our book, The Once and Future King.


1. Look up the word in the dictionary and write it down.

2. Check the text (page numbers are provided). How is the word being used?

3. Write a definition in your own words, considering the way the vocabulary is used in the text. Use context clues!

4. Finally, write a sentence using the word. Make sure you are using it with the same meaning as the text!
 
Mourning (449)
Glance (449)
Primitive (449)
Formidable (450)
Appeal (451)
Benevolent (452)
Enthusiastic (452)
Vocation (454)
Barge (454)
Reticence (454)
Insufferable (454)
Afflicted (456)
Fiend (456)
Precipice (456)
Remarkable (457)
Intuition (457)

Dictionary Vocab. Activity

Using the vocabulary list below, follow the directions to help you understand the challenging vocabulary in our book, The Once and Future King.

1. Look up the word in the dictionary and write it down.
2. Check the text (page numbers are provided). How is the word being used?
3. Write a definition in your own words, considering the way the vocabulary is used in the text. Use context clues!
4. Finally, write a sentence using the word. Make sure you are using it with the same meaning as the text!

Superb (419)
Fond (427)
Agitation (427)
Penitence (430)
Ingratiating (431)
Defiant (431)
Moral (434)
Endeavors (434)
Corruption (434)
Dogma (443)
Quarrel (443)
Orthodox (443)
Confession (444)
Bewilder (445)
Conscience (445)
Obstinate (447)

Dictionary Vocab. Activity

Using the vocabulary list below, follow the directions to help you understand the challenging vocabulary in our book, The Once and Future King.
1. Look up the word in the dictionary and write it down.
2. Check the text (page numbers are provided). How is the word being used?
3. Write a definition in your own words, considering the way the vocabulary is used in the text. Use context clues!
4. Finally, write a sentence using the word. Make sure you are using it with the same meaning as the text!

Prescience (388)
Ignoble (389)
Treason (389)
Hostile (391)
Repulsive (393)
Conniving (394)
Splendid (397)
Hermitage (398)
Lunatic (398)
Fetters (400)
Emaciated (404)
Vulnerable (406)
Swilled (407)
Incognito (411)
Anecdote (418)
Rendezvous (418)

Vocabulary Review : Pictionary!

Vocabulary Review : Pictionary!

Directions: Work with a partner on this activity. Make sure both your names are on your sheet, so that both of you can get credit for your work.

Fold a blank sheet of paper into eighths (fold it in half, then again, then one more time). When you open up your sheet, you should have 8 squares.

Use both sides of the paper to play vocabulary Pictionary with your partner. Take turns drawing and guessing. Turn it in at the end of the period.

Your quiz is Wednesday, March 3!

Dictionary Vocab. Activity

Using the vocabulary list below, follow the directions to help you understand the challenging vocabulary in our book, The Once and Future King.

1. Look up the word in the dictionary and write it down.
2. Check the text (page numbers are provided). How is the word being used?
3. Write a definition in your own words, considering the way the vocabulary is used in the text. Use context clues!
4. Finally, write a sentence using the word. Make sure you are using it with the same meaning as the text!

Fetch (372)
Discourteous (374)
Caricature (375)
Constitution (375)
Martyr (375)
Contrive (378)
Habitual (378)
Vital (378)
Pathos (379)
Consolation (380)
Sulk (382)
Remorse (382)
Wicked (383)
Misogynist (384)
Seclusion (386)
Sophistication (386)

Dictionary Vocab. Activity

Using the vocabulary list below, follow the directions to help you understand the challenging vocabulary in our book, The Once and Future King.

1. Look up the word in the dictionary and write it down.
2. Check the text (page numbers are provided). How is the word being used?
3. Write a definition in your own words, considering the way the vocabulary is used in the text. Use context clues!
4. Finally, write a sentence using the word. Make sure you are using it with the same meaning as the text!

Pavilion (347)
Sumptuous (347)
Damsel (349)
Vanquish (351)
Peculiar (352)
Faltered (352)
Wretched (352)
Maimed (353)
Choleric (355)
Degenerate (355)
Atrocity (355)
Unscrupulous (355)
Ideologies (355)
Mercy (360)
Invincible (363)
Impose (364)
Civilization (364)
Scheme (366)
Dilemma (367)
Prosperous (369)
Prophesy (372)

Dictionary Vocab. Activity

Using the vocabulary list below, follow the directions to help you understand the challenging vocabulary in our book, The Once and Future King.

1. Look up the word in the dictionary and write it down.
2. Check the text (page numbers are provided). How is the word being used?
3. Write a definition in your own words, considering the way the vocabulary is used in the text. Use context clues!
4. Finally, write a sentence using the word. Make sure you are using it with the same meaning as the text!

Vocabulary list:

Indignation (245)
Summon (246)
Inconsistent (247)
Monopoly (247)
Justice (247)
Distortions (315)
Salute (329)
Desolate (317)
Melancholy (317)
Jousting (318)
Siege (319)
Deceitful (331)
Nuisance (333)
Squire (335)
Infatuation (337)
Feudal (337)
Inclination (339)
Anarchy (340)
Sultry (342)
Halted (343)
Factions (345)

Dictionary Vocab. Activity

Using the vocabulary list on the previous post, follow the directions below to help you understand the challenging vocabulary in our book, The Once and Future King.

1. Look up the word in the dictionary and write it down.
2. Check the text (page numbers are provided). How is the word being used?
3. Write a definition in your own words, considering the way the vocabulary is used in the text. Use context clues!
4. Finally, write a sentence using the word. Make sure you are using it with the same meaning as the text!

Vocabulary

Finally, a new vocabulary unit! Each word is followed by a page reference to help you find the word as it appears in the book The Once and Future King.

Philosophy (188)
Ambling (188)
Rubbish (189)
College (189)
Solemn (189)
Scholarship (189)
Irresistible (190)
Paralyzed (191)
Evolution (191)
Defenseless (192)
Riddle (193)
Parable (193)
Plaids (213)
Chivalry (214)
Chaste (214)
Spurned (215)
Treacherous (216)
Dignity (217)
Tyranny (218)
Stench (218)
Feud (219)

Vocabulary Classwork and Homework (due 10/6)

Use context clues to define the words in bold.

1. A person of great virtue not only knows what is right, but also does what is right.

2. His bride in her white gown was an angelic vision.

3. The library is a repository of books.

4. While church hymns are considered religious music because of their use in ritual, hip hop and rap are considered secular because they are not about religious ideas.

5. We are all going through a great hardship because of the recession.

6. There are still many isolated Amazonian tribes untainted by modern technology.

7. It's agony when you're late for school and you just miss the bus.

8. It sounds like nonsense that you could use toothpaste to power your radio.

9. There is a lot of potential business in new communications technology.

10. Our parents labor for our well-being by supporting us financially and emotionally.

11. I knew my little brother was up to some mischief when I saw mustard on the dog's nose.

12. My hands were idle as I waited for an idea to inspire my journal for the day.

13. Children need to learn to account for their actions by being responsible for what they do.

14. There is a contradiction when we say we believe something and then do the opposite.

15. The people who lived under Queen Victoria in England during most of the 19^th century are known as Victorians.

16. Some people feel ambivalent towards religion; they may not be sure if they believe in God, or perhaps they don't agree with everything their church tells them.

Homework: use each of the words above in your own sentence.

Vocabulary Quiz Tomorrow!!!

There will be a vocabulary quiz on Friday. You can use the comments section of this post to exchange good definitions and share some of your sentences. Help each other out!

1. Inquisitive
2. Lamasery
3. Devised
4. Permutation
5. Aeries
6. Parapet
7. Vertiginous
8. Swoop
9. Morosely
10. Gibberish
11. Inexorably
12. Obscure
13. Manna
14. Blasphemy
15. Sabotage
16. Incessant
17. Savoring
18. Ebullience

Homework (due 9/17/09)

All sections:

Read the poem "The Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll. You should have a copy that was distributed in class. If you do not, you can find it here.

Choose five words from the poem. For each words you choose, use context clues to attempt a definition (this will be challenging, so don't give up! Write something down even if you think it's wrong). Once you have tried using context clues, try breaking the word up into parts. Does the word sound like others you may have heard before? Does the word look like two other words squished together?

Use your imagination!

Vocabulary Homework (due 9/16/09)

Using the definitions you worked on last night, compose one sentence using each word that was assigned. You should have 18 sentences.

There will be a vocabulary quiz on Friday.

1. Inquisitive
2. Lamasery
3. Devised
4. Permutation
5. Aeries
6. Parapet
7. Vertiginous
8. Swoop
9. Morosely
10. Gibberish
11. Inexorably
12. Obscure
13. Manna
14. Blasphemy
15. Sabotage
16. Incessant
17. Savoring
18. Ebullience

Vocabulary Homework (due 9/15/09)

All sections:

As you read "The Nine Billion Names of God," use context clues to define the following words:

1. Inquisitive
2. Lamasery
3. Devised
4. Permutation
5. Aeries
6. Parapet
7. Vertiginous
8. Swoop
9. Morosely
10. Gibberish
11. Inexorably
12. Obscure
13. Manna
14. Blasphemy
15. Sabotage
16. Incessant
17. Savoring
18. Ebullience

Once you have written down your definition, use a dictionary to check your work. Write the dictionary definition on your sheet. How many did you get? Write a short paragraph explaining what strategies you used when defining the words. What worked? What did not?