Grade 11-12: Vocabulary Lesson for Monday, Week 15

Word List 15

1. lucid: easily understood; intelligible; mentally sound; sane or rational; translucent or transparent
2. livid: discolored, as from a bruise; black-and-blue; ashen or pallid; extremely angry; furious
3. odious: arousing or meriting strong dislike, aversion, or intense displeasure
4. prodigy: a person with exceptional talents or powers
5. mundane: of, relating to, or typical of this world; secular; relating to, characteristic of, or concerned with commonplaces; ordinary
6. pensive: deeply, often wistfully or dreamily thoughtful; suggestive or expressive of melancholy thoughtfulness
7. sardonic: scornfully or cynically mocking

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:

Although the man seemed lucid, nevertheless in the next moment he did something absolutely crazy.
Those who write instructions should strive to be extremely lucid in the text they produce.

Livid with anger, the policeman stood before us with clenched fists and piercing eyes.
For a week after the automobile accident the right side of my neck was livid.

"I realize that I have given you an odious task," he said, "Nevertheless, I expect you to do your job well.^
The odious little house elf muttered under his breath every time he got near us.

Bobby Fischer was an amazing chess prodigy.
LeBron James is one of the few high school prodigies to make it big in the NBA.

Retiring from thirty years of totally mundane work, the man suddenly found nothing to do.
"This mundane task might not seem important to you," our supervisor said, "But it is vital that we all work together.^

"Why so pensive Mom?" I asked as I came upon my mother staring longingly out the garden window.
Staring at nothing, I couldn't shake the pensive mood that had settled upon me.

I don't understand it, but the comedian had become famous with his sardonic wit and a few catchy phrases.
When I saw his sardonic smile I knew that this unpleasant little man had some very bad news he was about to deliver.

 
 

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