Grade 11-12: Vocabulary Lesson for Wednesday, 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

Wednesday Activities

1. Make Mind Maps - Link your vocabulary words to words that you already know. >Here is an example of a mind map. On a piece of paper, or on the computer in Word, draw a circle and write/type the vocabulary word inside the circle. Think of words that mean the same thing and put those in circles around the outside of the word drawing a line to connect the synonyms.
2. Mind Games - Create a mind map with words that mean the opposite or antonyms. Use the thesaurus built into your word program to find more words that are antonyms. Or you can go to this on-line thesaurus. Click on the button in front of Thesaurus at the top of the page, then type your word into the white area.
3. Mind Mapping Tool - Go to the website and click on play for instructions. Create a mind map with your vocabulary words. Print it out 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:

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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