Grade 11-12: Vocabulary Lesson for Friday, Week 3

Word List 3

1. luminous: Bright; emitting light: full of light
2. intervene: To get involved in a situation so as to alter or change the course of events; to interfere, usually though force
3. haven: A harbor; a port; a place of refuge or rest
4. glut: To fill beyond capacity, especially with food; to flood a market with an excess of goods
5. foreboding: A sense of impending evil or misfortune; an evil omen
6. embark: To go aboard a vessel or aircraft as in the start of a journey; to set out on a venture.
7. decipher: To read or interpret obscure, or illegible matter; to convert from a code to plain text

Friday Activities

1. On week one, we suggested you create an account on Study Stack. Click the link to go to Study Stack. Log into your account. You will see the stack you created last week. Click on the "edit" button to the right of that stack. 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. Use the scroll down bar on the right to see the blank line at the bottom of t
2. Here is a book mark for you to keep up with vocabulary words you run across while reading. Print this out and keep it in your book. When you come across a word you do not know, write it down on this bookmark to keep track of it. Add the word and definition to your vocabulary notebook.
3. Connectives - Click on the link and type in your vocabulary words and their definitions in the three columns. Your definitions will be typed in column 2 and continue in column 3. Print out the sheet and cut it into the individual blocks. Keep the pieces in a ziploc bag and try to put the connectors together during your travel time or free time at home.

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:

There are stars in the daytime sky but the sun is so luminous you can't see them.
Las Vegas at night is a luminous jewel in the desert.

The tiny Asian nation came before the UN to ask them to intervene in their civil war.
The lunchroom argument got so loud our school security officer had to intervene.

Bridges in Austin, Texas have become a haven for thousands of bats.
Wildlife in the oil spill area were seeking a haven; unfortunately none could be found.

Lack of planning in the south caused a soybean glut.
The downturn in our economy has made for a glut of warehouse space.

Timmy approached the door of the haunted house with a strong sense of foreboding.
Steven King incorporates a sense of foreboding in most of his novels.

Meriwether Clark gave his troops a stirring speech as they were about to embark on their long journey.
Finally the steward motioned us forward to embark on our three day cruise to the Bahamas.

The Rosetta Stone allowed archeologists to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics.
My teachers often complained that they couldn't decipher my handwriting.

 
 

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