Grade 11-12: Vocabulary Lesson for Wednesday, Week 7

Word List 7

1. facetious: playfully jocular; humorous
2. belie: to give a false representation to; misrepresent; to show to be false; contradict
3. impeach: to make an accusation against; to charge (a public official) with improper conduct in office before a proper tribunal; to challe
4. paradigm: one that serves as a pattern or model; a set or list of all the inflectional forms of a word or of one of its grammatical catego
5. recapitulate: to repeat in concise form; to make a summary
6. tempestuous: tumultuous; stormy; of, relating to, or resembling a tempest
7. homogeneous: of the same or similar nature or kind; uniform in structure or composition throughout

Wednesday Activities

1. Make Mind Maps - Link your vocabulary words to words that you already know. Click on the link for 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 this 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:

The principal tried to break the ice with a facetious remark, unfortunately many of the students took him seriously.
No matter how serious the situation, you can always count on my dad to make some kind of facetious remark.

My grandfather always spoke gruffly trying to belie the fact that he was a teddy bear at heart.
The smirk on his face seemed to belie his assurance that he was innocent.

The competing team did its very best to impeach the validity of our data.

The mayor announced that his new administration would shift to a people-oriented paradigm.
The old way of doing things wasn't working; it's time for a new paradigm.

"In conclusion, allow me to recapitulate," the congressman said as he reminded us about the major points of his speech.
If you are giving an oral presentation, remember to recapitulate your main points before you stop speaking.

Our relationship ended badly because of her tempestuous nature.
Our small boat was tossed wildly by the tempestuous storm raging outside the cabin.

Over time, the United States has gradually become less homogeneous.
Those seeking a homogeneous society to move to will have a hard time finding one.

 
 

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