Grade 9-10: Vocabulary Lesson for Thursday, Week 6

Word List 6

1. perspective: a view or vista; a mental view or outlook; the appearance of objects in depth as perceived by normal binocular vision; the relat
2. pithy: precisely meaningful; forceful and brief; consisting of or resembling pith (the soft, sponge like, central cylinder of the stems
3. prodigy: a person with exceptional talents or powers
4. pseudonym: a fictitious name, especially a pen name
5. principal: first, highest, or foremost in importance, rank, worth, or degree; chief; one who holds a position of presiding rank, especially
6. profound: situated at, extending to, or coming from a great depth; deep; coming as if from the depths of one's being; far-reaching; penetr
7. phenomenon: an occurrence, circumstance, or fact that is perceptible by the senses; an unusual, significant, or unaccountable fact or occurr

Thursday Activities

1. Create your own crossword puzzle. Click on this link and scroll down to the bottom of the page. Enter your words and your clues (definition), then click "Create Crossword Now." A new web page will appear. You can put a title on your puzzle if you wish, then click "Create Crossword." Print this out and complete the puzzle. Insert the completed work in your vocabulary notebook.
2. Create your wall of vocabulary words. Click on the link and register for a free account.
3. Using your vocabulary notebook, write the words and definitions you have learned this summer.

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 tried to look at my house from the perspective of a potential buyer.
Google Earth helps a person have a more global perspective.

The author was successful because of his ability to capture complex emotions in short pithy sentences; almost like proverbs.
I'm sorry, I apologized to my mother, "This asparagus is too pithy for me to eat.^

Bobby Fischer was an amazing chess prodigy.
LeBron James is one of the few high school prodigies to make it big in the NBA.

Samuel Clemens wrote under the pseudonym Mark Twain.
I read Richard Bachman novels for a long time before I realized that Stephen King was writing them under a pseudonym.

My principal reason for going to summer school was to graduate from high school a year sooner.
Mr. Stevenson, my high school principal, had an important role in changing my perspective.

One conversation in the principal's office had a profound effect on my academic achievement.
A profound silence greeted the class president's public admission of wrongdoing.

A spring snowstorm is a most unusual phenomenon.
Astronomers have a pretty good understanding of the phenomenon we call a black hole.

 
 

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