Grade 9-10: Vocabulary Lesson for Wednesday, 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

Wednesday Activities

1. Go to the Spelling City website. Type in your list of vocabulary words. Click on the button that says Play A Game. Select Which Word. Play the game and write down the fill-in-the-blank sentences in your notebook.
2. Create your own worksheet using your vocabulary words and your own definitions with this Worksheet Creater. Type your vocabulary words in the left column and the definitions in the right column. There is room on this worksheet for 10 words. Think of other words you know and type the words and definitions in the blank lines to complete the list. Click on "Generate Worksheet" at the bottom. Your worksheet will be created. Complete the worksheet and put it in your vocabulary notebook.
3. Create your own virtual word dice. Click on this link and then click on number "15". Highlight the text that is already there and then type in one of your words. When you have finished, click on the single die or double dice, depending on how many words you enter. Click on the dice to roll them. State the definition of the word you see!

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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