Grade 11-12: Vocabulary Lesson for Thursday, 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

Thursday Activities

1. Lay out your flash cards with the word side up. Take a picture of them with your phone. Send it email or text message to a friend. Ask him/her to text the words to you one at a time and you text back the definition without looking at your cards! You can also use the picture by yourself. Turn your cards to the definition side. Read the definition out loud, then look at your photo and state the word that goes along with the definition.
2. Word Scrambler - Click on the link and create your own word scrambler with your vocabulary words. Type in the number of words you wish to scramble and press the "next" buton. You will see a sheet that has the answers for you. Press next again and print out the page. Complete it and put it in your notebook.
3. Test yourself with this link, Easy TestMaker You will have to create an account to save your tests. Read the directions and create your own test. You can choose from many formats. We suggest you try "Fill in the blank" and make up a sentence using your vocabulary word. You can download it into Word if you wish. Print out the test you created and complete it. Insert it into your notebook.

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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