Grade 11-12: Vocabulary Lesson for Thursday, 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

Thursday Activities

1. Test yourself with this link, Easy TestMaker. You will have to create an account to save your tests. Read the directions and create your own test. You can choose from many formats. We suggest you try "Fill in the blank" and make up a sentence using your vocabulary word. You can download it into Word if you wish. Print out the test you created and complete it. Insert it into your notebook.
2. Word Scrambler - Click on the link and create your own word scrambler with your vocabulary words. Type in the number of words you wish to scramble and press the "next" buton. You will see a sheet that has the answers for you. Press next again and print out the page. Complete it and put it in your notebook.
3. Go to the Spelling City website. Type in your list of vocabulary words. Click on the button that says Play A Game. Select Which Word. Play the game and write down the fill-in-the-blank sentences in your 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:

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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