Grade 9-10: Vocabulary Lesson for Thursday, Week 5

Word List 5

1. truism: a self-evident truth
2. veracity: adherence to the truth; truthfulness; conformity to fact or truth; something that is true
3. literate: able to read and write; knowledgeable or educated in a particular field; a well-informed, educated person
4. nondescript: lacking distinctive qualities; having no individual character or form
5. obliterate: to do away with completely so as to leave no trace; to wipe out, rub off, or erase
6. ravenous: extremely hungry; voracious; greedy for gratification
7. swagger: to walk or conduct oneself with an insolent or arrogant air; strut; to brag; boast

Thursday Activities

1. Create your own pocket personal organizer - From the list on the left, click and drag the cards you wish to have in your organizer. We suggest you pick one page from the calendar section and one from the organizer section. The others are your free choice. Fill in the pages with your vocabulary words and definitions along with any other information you wish to share, such as This Day in History. You can also choose a couple of games to add that you can p
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
3. 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.

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 Golden Rule represents a truism that is often ignored.
One of the most important truisms underpinning our society is that all men are created equal.

The lawyer for the defense tried his best to undermine the veracity of my testimony.
Judge Hollis was such an honorable man that no one ever doubted his veracity.

Few residents of the poor country were literate so newspapers weren't very helpful in getting out the warning.
Unlike last year's teacher, my literature teacher this year is extremely literate and well-read.

Undercover police officers often prefer to drive nondescript vehicles.
To hide his wealth, the millionaire lived in a nondescript house in a poor part of town.

Beating an opponent wasn't enough, the sadistic warrior wanted to obliterate them.
The crazed dictator tried to obliterate a race of people because they were different from him.

After floating in a life raft for five days the surviving sailors were ravenous.
The vet told me to put my dog on a diet and the poor thing was ravenous.

I watched the school bully swagger as he stalked down the hall.
There was a definite swagger to the world champion team as they walked to their team bus.

 
 

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