Grade 5-6: Vocabulary Lesson for Wednesday, Week 12

This week's theme is: Personality

Word List 12

1. efficient: Acoomplishing a purpose without wasting time
2. arrogant: Feeling more important that others.
3. cordial: Warm and sincere.
4. unruly: Lacking restraint, rebels against authority.
5. precise: Exact, following the rules.
6. monotonous: Boring, lacking in variety.
7. vibrant: Exhibits charm and is animated.

Wednesday Activities

1. Create your own vocabulary book for review. Use this site to make your own book. Type in your words and definitions. You can make up to 10 pages. Print it out and carry it around with you to practice in your spare time.
2. Flashcardstash- Flashcard Stash allows you to create and customize your own digital flashcards. You can create flashcards with anything. Such as dates for History class, vocabulary for French class, or words for the SAT.
3. Connectors - Click on the link and type in your vocabulary words and their definitions in the three columns. Your definitions will be typed in column 2 and continue in column 3. Print out the sheet and cut it into the individual blocks. Keep the pieces in a Ziploc bag and try to put the connectors together during your travel time or free time at home.

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:

I enjoy challenging myself: how efficient I can be.
Man is always coming up with new and more efficient ways of doing things.

I though he was arrogant unreasonably, and very obnoxious.
I guess I should apologize because that sounds arrogant.

Some teachers were found to be more cordial by students.
He was very much a gentleman and very cordial.

An unruly passenger caused a flight to be diverted.
She pulled her unruly hair back into a knot.

He had no clue about his precise location.
The teacher liked his precise concentration.

The bell went off and snapped me out of my boredom from Alice's monotonous voice.
Exercising the same way every day can be monotonous.

On the bus ride I met met a vibrant, witty, incredibly brilliant woman.
I feel like a vibrant, productive person now.

 
 

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