Grade 11-12: Vocabulary Lesson for Friday, Week 7

Word List 7

1. facetious: playfully jocular; humorous
2. belie: to give a false representation to; misrepresent; to show to be false; contradict
3. impeach: to make an accusation against; to charge (a public official) with improper conduct in office before a proper tribunal; to challe
4. paradigm: one that serves as a pattern or model; a set or list of all the inflectional forms of a word or of one of its grammatical catego
5. recapitulate: to repeat in concise form; to make a summary
6. tempestuous: tumultuous; stormy; of, relating to, or resembling a tempest
7. homogeneous: of the same or similar nature or kind; uniform in structure or composition throughout

Friday Activities

1. On week one, we suggested you create an account on Study Stack. Click the link to go to Study Stack.
2. Log into your account. You will see the stack you created last week. Click on the "edit" button to the right of that stack. Click on the "Data" tab. Write your words on the left and the definitions on the right. If you run out of blank areas, click on the Save Changes button.
3. Use the scroll down bar on the right to see the blank line at the bottom of the list. After entering your words and definitions, click on the "Save Changes" button. The icons at the bottom of the page are the various games you can choose to play. Select a game for this week and see how well you do!

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:

The principal tried to break the ice with a facetious remark, unfortunately many of the students took him seriously.
No matter how serious the situation, you can always count on my dad to make some kind of facetious remark.

My grandfather always spoke gruffly trying to belie the fact that he was a teddy bear at heart.
The smirk on his face seemed to belie his assurance that he was innocent.

The competing team did its very best to impeach the validity of our data.

The mayor announced that his new administration would shift to a people-oriented paradigm.
The old way of doing things wasn't working; it's time for a new paradigm.

"In conclusion, allow me to recapitulate," the congressman said as he reminded us about the major points of his speech.
If you are giving an oral presentation, remember to recapitulate your main points before you stop speaking.

Our relationship ended badly because of her tempestuous nature.
Our small boat was tossed wildly by the tempestuous storm raging outside the cabin.

Over time, the United States has gradually become less homogeneous.
Those seeking a homogeneous society to move to will have a hard time finding one.

 
 

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