Grade 11-12: Vocabulary Lesson for Monday, Week 13

Word List 13

1. decimate: to destroy or kill a large part of (a group); to inflict great destruction or damage on
2. docile: ready and willing to be taught; teachable; yielding to supervision, direction, or management; tractable
3. elucidate: to make clear or plain, especially by explanation; clarify
4. evasive: inclined or intended to evade; intentionally vague or ambiguous; equivocal
5. fastidious: possessing or displaying careful, meticulous attention to detail; difficult to please; exacting; excessively scrupulous or sensitive, especially in matters of taste or propriety
6. duplicity: deliberate deceptiveness in behavior or speech; an instance of deliberate deceptiveness; double-dealing
7. eradication: to tear up by the roots; to get rid of as if by tearing up by the roots

Monday Activities

1. Write the words and definitions in your vocabulary notebook.
2. Create your own sentence using each word and write this in your vocabulary notebook. We have provided samples below to get you started.
3. Use this dictionary link to check the pronounciation of each word. Type each word in the box on the left, then click the sound icon to listen.

Other Help

If you need more information on your words, click on the link to use a on-line dictionary.

Use the daily activities to help you remember words that you learn each week. It is much easier to remember what the words mean if you do something with them and use them frequently in talking with your parents, family and friends.

Sample sentences:

Helicopters were to be used to spray the drug plants in an attempt to totally decimate the crop.
Before the ground attack the general decided to decimate the air attack capability of the enemy.

I want a new dog, but he must be one with a docile personality.
I know my algebra teacher would prefer docile students, but for some reason I couldn't stop my aggressive behavior.

I still didn't understand so I asked the teacher to elucidate.
I thought that I had hid my ignorance until my teacher quietly asked me to elucidate two points.

The attorney asked the judge to instruct the witness to stop being evasive.
I hadn't done my homework last night so I kept my replies intentionally evasive; but my teacher saw right through that.

One popular sports announcer seems to be best known for being a fastidious dresser.
The crime lab's fastidious attention to detail has resulted in a large number of convictions.

The squeaky-clean police captain was never accused of duplicity.
Once the dealers at a local casino were accused of duplicity, many gamblers stopped going there.

The new director of schools announced his plans for the eradication of poor teaching in the classroom.
Some say that eradication of the drug supply would have more effect than enforcement against drug users.

 
 

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