Grade 9-10: Vocabulary Lesson for Thursday, Week 7

Word List 7

1. tacit: not spoken; implied by or inferred from actions or statements
2. novice: a person new to a field or activity; a beginner
3. quaint: charmingly odd, especially in an old-fashioned way; unfamiliar or unusual in character; strange
4. repository: a place where things may be put for safekeeping; a warehouse; a museum; a burial vault; a tomb
5. susceptible: easily influenced or affected; likely to be affected; especially sensitive; highly impressionable
6. verbose: using or containing a great and usually an excessive number of words; wordy
7. orthodox: adhering to the accepted or traditional and established faith, especially in religion; adhering to what is commonly accepted, cu

Thursday Activities

1. Test yourself with this link, Easy TestMaker. You will have to create an account to save your tests.
2. Read the directions and create your own test. You can choose from many formats.
3. 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.

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:

After forbidding me to go my Father smiled and winked at me; thus giving me his tacit approval.
Even though my mentor remained silent, I continued down the path taking his smiles and nods as tacit approval of the direction that I had chosen.

Novice computer users often assume that anything that goes wrong on the computer is their fault.
I admit that I am a novice at karate but I have a strong desire to learn.

With my preference for books I can hold in my hand and writing letters with pen and paper, many of my friends regard me as being quaint.
The quaint New England village was a perfect place to get away from the hustle and bustle of the modern world.

The Internet is such a huge repository of facts that novice searchers are often overwhelmed by data.
My favorite sci-fi show features a warehouse which is a huge repository of amazing artifacts.

Granny doesn't like to go to the mall because she is so susceptible to cold and flu.
The pep rally quickly became a riot as the more emotional students were susceptible to the encouragement to fight.

Twitter and texting tends to make a person much less verbose.
I woke, embarrassed that I had fallen asleep in the middle of my verbose uncle's very long story.

Traditionalists prefer to stick to the orthodox religion of their parents.
Charles Darwin and Alfred Wegener both experienced rejection of their scientific theories since they were very far from being orthodox.

 
 

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