Grade 5-6: Vocabulary Lesson for Thursday, 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.

Thursday Activities

1. Mind Mapping Tool - Go to this 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. Make a word cloud at this link. Click on the word Load under the heading Words to get your blank page.
3. Type in your words and their definitions. Click on the submit button. Personalize it by selecting color, shape and more!

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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