Grade 9-10: Vocabulary Lesson for Tuesday, 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

Tuesday Activities

1. Make Flashcards - Write the word on one side of an index card and put the definition and a sentence on the opposite side. You can find ideas for making flashcards on the Internet by clicking on the link.
2. Write your vocabulary words in alphabetical order in your vocabulary notebook. Write your own definition beside each word.
3. Motivator: Create your own motivational poster to help keep you motivated! Add some motivational text about learning vocabulary 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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