Grade 11-12: Vocabulary Lesson for Monday, 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

Monday Activities

1. Write the words and definitions in your vocabulary notebook.
2. Create your own sentence using each word and write this in your vocabulary notebook. We have provided samples below to get you started.
3. Use this dictionary link to check the pronounciation of each word. Type each word in the box on the left, then click the sound icon to listen.

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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