Grade 9-10: Vocabulary Lesson for Friday, Week 1

Word List 1

1. voracious: consuming, or eager to consume, great amounts
2. susceptible: easily influenced or affected
3. pivotal: vital, of central importance, crucial
4. humane: characterized by kindness, mercy, or compassion
5. fastidious: careful, meticulous attention to detail
6. clarify: to make clear or easier to understand
7. irascible: quick to get angry, having outbursts of temper

Friday Activities

1. Lay out your flash cards with the word side up. Take a picture of them with your phone. Send it email or text message to a friend. Ask him/her to text the words to you one at a time and you text back the definition without looking at your cards! You can also use the picture by yourself. Turn your cards to the definition side. Read the definition out loud, then look at your photo and state the word that goes along with the definition.
2. Click the link to go to Study Stack. Click on "create your own flashcards" at the top of the page. Register to create a free account. After the account is set up, click on "Would you like to Create new stack?" Name your stack. We suggest you put your initials first then add "I4C_List 1" An example of a list name would be JR_I4C_List 1 . For the "description", we suggest "Internet 4 Classrooms Summer Program 2010." For the "Category," we suggest private. Click on the choice that says "Generate random fill-in-the-blank clues for activities." Click on "Save Changes" Write down your user name and password. We will be adding our words to the stacks each Friday. 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 at the bottom, then it will give you more room to add more. The icons at the bottom of the page are the various games you can choose to play. Select
3. Test yourself with this link, Easy TestMaker. Create an account to save your tests. Cllick on the Getting Started and How to tab to learn how to create a test. You can go back each week and review previous lessons so you can be sure and remember the new words!

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:

My Aunt, who reads one or two books a night, is a voracious reader.
I hate to see my cousin at our dinner table since his voracious appetite leaves little for me.

Stay home this summer if you are susceptible to Whooping Cough.
Dad left Mom home when he went car shopping because she was too susceptible to sales talk.

The country's pivotal location has invited invasion in the past.
Deciding to study alone was the pivotal moment in my high school career.

Saving the dog from the swollen creek was a very humane act.
My guidance counselor makes very humane decisions all the time.

My Uncle Josh is a fastidious dressed; nothing is ever out of place.
Nothing is ever out of place in my mother's house; she is such a fastidious housekeeper.

"Ms. Smith, will you please clarify your instructions about our summer reading program?^
Mom is so careful about giving me instructions that I never have to ask her to clarify her intentions.

The taxi driver was irascible, shouting and making gestures, when another driver got in his way.
When the neighborhood children walked on his grass, the old man was irascible, waving his cane and yelling.

 
 

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