Grade 11-12: Vocabulary Lesson for Friday, Week 1

Word List 1

1. audacious: fearless, recklessly bold or daring
2. blasé: uninterested, unconcerned, bored
3. capacious: capable of containing a large capacity, roomy, spacious
4. desist: to stop, to cease doing something
5. enigma: puzzling, unexplainable, mysterious
6. formidable: arousing fear, dread, or alarm; inspiring awe or admiration
7. matriculate: being admitted officially into a university

Friday Activities

1. Click the link to go to Study Stack. Click on "create your own flashcards" at the top of the page. Register to create a free account. After the account is set up, click on "Would you like to Create new stack?" Name your stack. We suggest you put your initials first then add "I4C_List 1" An example of a list name would be JR_I4C_List 1 . For the "description", we suggest "Internet 4 Classrooms Summer Program 2010." For the "Category," we suggest private.
2. Click on the choice that says "Generate random fill-in-the-blank clues for activities." Click on "Save Changes" Write down your user name and password. We will be adding our words to the stacks each Friday. Click on the "Data" tab. Write your words on the left and the definitions on the right. If you run out of blank areas, click on the Save Changes button at the bottom, then it will give you more room to add more.
3. The icons at the bottom of the page are the various games you can choose to play. Select a game for this week and see how well you do!

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:

Jim's audacious prediction of victory put a lot of pressure on the whole team.
Everyone on the other team was insulted by the opposing coach's audacious proclamation.

"Billy, your blasé attitude will make school very hard for you.^
My neighbor has a blasé attitude about housekeeping; you should see the mess.

After riding in Granny's tiny car, Dad's capacious SUV was a welcome change.
For several minutes Aunt Sue kept pulling things from her capacious shopping bag.

My very proper English teacher demanded that I desist complaining about the summer assignment.
Trying to defuse the rowdy crowd the park policeman ordered us to cease and desist at once.

How the universe began is one of the enigmas or cosmology.
"Billy," my algebra teacher said to me, "how you can pass my course without studying is truly an enigma.^

With four All-State players on the team, our next opponent is truly formidable.
A formidable opponent is not one that you can take lightly.

After filling out numerous applications, Alan was finally matriculated into one of the top schools.
She matriculated into the state university last fall.

 
 

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