Grade 11-12: Vocabulary Lesson for Thursday, Week 9

Word List 9

1. fiduciary: of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another: a fiduciary heir; a fiduciary contract; of or being a trustee or trusteeship; held in trust
2. gauche: lacking social polish; tactless
3. hubris: overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance
4. incontrovertible: impossible to dispute; unquestionable
5. interpolate: to insert or introduce between other elements or parts; to insert (material) into a text; to insert into a conversation; to change or falsify (a text) by introducing new or incorrect material; (in mathematics) to estimate a value of a function or series between two known values
6. infrastructure: an underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system; the basic facilities, services, and installations needed for the functioning of a community or society, such as transportation and communications systems, water and power lines, and public institutions including schools, post offices, and prisons
7. loquacious: very talkative; garrulous

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:

My accountant feels that it's his fiduciary duty to advise me about my investments.
A publisher has a fiduciary duty to act in the best interest of an author.

The man is a talented musician but he is socially gauche.
Just as in My Fair Lady, the professor took a gauche young lady and transformed her.

"Be warned young man," my wise old uncle told me, "Your hubris will be your downfall.^
Technological hubris has caused many computer users to shy away from the software giant.

Turning to the jury the prosecutor intoned, "This next fact, ladies and gentlemen, is incontrovertible proof of Mr. Smith's guilt.^
One of the things I enjoy about Geometry is the way that incontrovertible proofs are guilt point by point.

To make sense of things you must interpolate several facts into the account.
"Look carefully at the temperature data, "my meteorology professor told us, "and interpolate the temperature for 3:15 PM.

One of the most common element in post-apocalyptic films is the crumbling infrastructure.
Infrastructure repair is of major importance following large earthquakes.

The loquacious guest did his very best to dominate every conversation at the neighborhood get-together.
After several beverages he soon became quite loquacious.

 
 

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