Grade 9-10: Vocabulary Lesson for Wednesday, Week 6

Word List 6

1. perspective: a view or vista; a mental view or outlook; the appearance of objects in depth as perceived by normal binocular vision; the relat
2. pithy: precisely meaningful; forceful and brief; consisting of or resembling pith (the soft, sponge like, central cylinder of the stems
3. prodigy: a person with exceptional talents or powers
4. pseudonym: a fictitious name, especially a pen name
5. principal: first, highest, or foremost in importance, rank, worth, or degree; chief; one who holds a position of presiding rank, especially
6. profound: situated at, extending to, or coming from a great depth; deep; coming as if from the depths of one's being; far-reaching; penetr
7. phenomenon: an occurrence, circumstance, or fact that is perceptible by the senses; an unusual, significant, or unaccountable fact or occurr

Wednesday Activities

1. Mind Mapping Tool - Go to the website and click on play for instructions. Create a mind map with your vocabulary words. Print it out and put it in your vocabulary notebook.
2. Mind Games - Create a mind map with words that mean the opposite or antonyms. Use the thesaurus built into your word program to find more words that are antonyms. Or you can go to this on-line thesaurus. Click on the button in front of Thesaurus at the top of the page, then type your word into the white area.
3. Copy your word list and paste them in this link. See if you can state the definnition in a given period of time.

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 tried to look at my house from the perspective of a potential buyer.
Google Earth helps a person have a more global perspective.

The author was successful because of his ability to capture complex emotions in short pithy sentences; almost like proverbs.
I'm sorry, I apologized to my mother, "This asparagus is too pithy for me to eat.^

Bobby Fischer was an amazing chess prodigy.
LeBron James is one of the few high school prodigies to make it big in the NBA.

Samuel Clemens wrote under the pseudonym Mark Twain.
I read Richard Bachman novels for a long time before I realized that Stephen King was writing them under a pseudonym.

My principal reason for going to summer school was to graduate from high school a year sooner.
Mr. Stevenson, my high school principal, had an important role in changing my perspective.

One conversation in the principal's office had a profound effect on my academic achievement.
A profound silence greeted the class president's public admission of wrongdoing.

A spring snowstorm is a most unusual phenomenon.
Astronomers have a pretty good understanding of the phenomenon we call a black hole.

 
 

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