VOCAB 12 5 VOCABULARY 12 5 SWBAT determine

VOCAB 12. 5

VOCABULARY 12. 5 SWBAT determine word meanings from context clues. SWBAT use word parts (roots, prefixes, suffixes) to determine meaning of unfamiliar words

RAPID FIRE AGENDA 7 mins: learn words in context & teach to table 10 mins: part of speech, misunderstandings, CFUs 15 mins: practice

GROUP ASSIGNMENTS You have 30 seconds to determine who in your group is: � George Washington � John Adams � Thomas Jefferson � James Madison � James Monroe

ASSIGNMENTS: Washington: Words 3 & 4 Adams: Words 5 & 6 Jefferson: Words 1 & 2 Madison: Words 9 & 10 Monroe: Words 7 & 8

INDIGENT Part of Speech Definition Synonyms Antonym Special Usage adjective Experiencing want or need; impoverished poor, povertystricken rich, affluent, wealthy indigently adv. indigence n. the indigent, n.

CFU: INDIGENT Do you agree that the poor rather than the rich should be responsible for making the rules of society? Why?

INFRINGE Part of Speech Definition Synonym Antonym s verb To transgress or encroach, exceed the impose, limits of; violate intrude, invade, transgress, trespass Comply obey Special Usage Infringement, infringer noun

CFU: INFRINGE What is the most important right that people have that you feel the United States Government should NOT infringe upon? Why?

DOCUMENT Part of Speech Definition Synonyms verb To record in Log, chronicle, written, report photographic or other form Antonym Special Usage

CFU: DOCUMENT Why is it essential to document the sources that you use in a research essay or report?

OSTENSIBLE Part of Speech Definition Synonyms Antonym Special Usage adjective Represented or appearing as such; evident Apparent, pretended, professed, supposed, alleged genuine, real, honest ostensibly adv.

CFU: OSTENSIBLE What argument is Teddy Roosevelt making about the perception of government versus the

SPECIOUS Part of Speech Definition Synonyms Antonym adjective Plausible, but not true; based on a sham Deceptive, false, true, direct, misleading honest Special Usage speciously adv. speciousness n.

CFU: SPECIOUS What might be a specious excuse you could tell for not completing your AP English homework?

‘Copia’ was a Latin singular noun meaning ‘a lot’. Adding ‘us’ to a singular noun made it a plural noun, so ‘copius’ literally meant ‘a lot of a lot’.

COPIOUS Part of Speech Definition Synonyms Antonym Special Usage adjective Large in quantity; abundant ample, bountiful, plentiful lacking, meager, copiously adv. scant, rare copiousness n.

CFU: COPIOUS What is something you would like to have a copious amount of? What is something you WOULD NOT like to have a copious amount of?

EXTRANEOUS Part of Speech Definition Synonym s Antonym adjective Unessential or unrelated to the topic or matter at hand irrelevant, essential, needless, necessary, nonessential, needed peripheral, redundant, superfluous Special Usage extraneously adv. extraneousness n.

CFU: EXTRANEOUS What is one reason that you should avoid writing about extraneous details in a Timed Argument Essay?

MUNDANE Part of Speech Definition Synonyms Antonym Special Usage adjective commonplace; ordinary. banal, unimaginative, everyday extraordinary, unusual mundanely adv. mundaneness mundanity n.

CFU: MUNDANE What is something that a teacher can do to keep class from becoming mundane?

PROGENY Part of Speech Definition Synonyms noun An offspring or a descendant. Offspring or descendants considered as a group. breed, children, product, descendants, lineage Antonym Special Usage n. pl. progeny progenies

CFU: PROGENY What inference can you make about how Mary Shelley feels about her novel Frankenstein when she refers to it as her ‘hideous

SONOROUS Part of Definition Speech adjective Having or producing a full, deep, or rich sound. Synonyms Antony m Special Usage grandiloquent, quiet, bass, booming, mute, soft rich, resonant sonorously adv. sonorousness n.

CFU: SONOROUS Read the following quotation in a sonorous voice: The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain.

CLOSING: LOW-STAKES WRITING