Grade 11-12: Vocabulary Lesson for Friday, Week 8

Word List 8

1. abrogate: to abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority
2. chicanery: deception by trickery or sophistry
3. circumnavigate: to proceed completely around; to go around; circumvent
4. deleterious: having a harmful effect; injurious
5. enervate: to weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of
6. expurgate: to remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication
7. fatuous: foolish or silly, especially in a smug or self-satisfied way

Friday Activities

1. On week one, we suggested you create an account on Study Stack. Click the link to go to Study Stack.
2. 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.
3. Use the scroll down bar on the right to see the blank line at the bottom of the list. After entering your words and definitions, click on the "Save Changes" button. The icons at the bottom of the page are the various games you can choose to play. Select a game for this week and see how well you do!

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:

One of the issues facing the president was whether to abrogate the treaty his predecessor signed.
One of the signs of maturity is making sure that you do not abrogate your responsibility to your children.

I am getting tired of politicians and their chicanery.
Financial chicanery by several large banks caused the recent market meltdown.

At this time of day we must circumnavigate the city to avoid traffic problems.
My rich uncle recently set off in his yacht planning to circumnavigate the world.

Cigarettes and fried foods are deleterious to your long term health.
The FDA has assured us that there will be no deleterious effects to Gulf seafood.

The afternoon heat will enervate you if you aren't careful.
Too much television will enervate your ability to reason carefully.

More and more the news reporters must expurgate the remarks of street interviews.
Repressive governments take it upon themselves to expurgate books and broadcast media reaching their citizens.

"I'm sorry," I told the reporter, "I just don't believe that the mayor would make such a fatuous remark.^
I know that this will sound completely fatuous, but it's the truth.

 
 

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