Grade 11-12: Vocabulary Lesson for Tuesday, 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

Tuesday Activities

1. Make Flashcards - Write the word on one side of an index card and put the definition and a sentence on the opposite side. You can find ideas for making flashcards on the Internet by clicking on the link.
2. Go to the Spelling City website. Type in your list of vocabulary words. Click on the button that says Play A Game. Select Which Word. Play the game and write down the fill-in-the-blank sentences in your notebook.
3. Create your own worksheet using your vocabulary words and your own definitions with this Worksheet Creater. Type your vocabulary words in the left column and the definitions in the right column. There is room on this worksheet for 10 words. Think of other words you know and type the words and definitions in the blank lines to complete the list. Click on "Generate Worksheet" at the bottom. Your worksheet will be created. Complete the worksheet and put it in your vocabulary 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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