Vocabulary: Week 6

1. Vocabulary: Week 6 10th Grade NMHS

2. Acumen (noun) “AK-yoo-men” When you behave with acumen, You’re smart with keen insight, Like when you make shrewd business deals Or stay out of a fight. Remember This: Show me the smart accurate acumen! Definition: the ability to make good judgments and quick decisions

3. Capacious (adj) “Kuh-PAY-shus” Capacious is the easiest rhyme Of my entire mission ’Cause capacious rhymes with spacious, And spacious is the definition. REMEMBER THIS : Capacious means spacious. Definition: spacious

4. Ennui (noun) “On-WEE” It’s a feeling of boredom, It’s a lack of any ZING! When you’re hit with ennui, You don’t want to do a thing. REMEMBER THIS : I feel ennui (On-WEE) on weekends. Definition: a feeling of listlessness and dissatisfaction arising from a lack of occupation or excitement.

5. Flagrant (adj) “FLAY-grent” Shockingly glaring or obvious. My basketball coach had to howl When another guard elbowed me Right in the jaw. That was a big flagrant foul. REMEMBER THIS : Some think it’s a flagrant offense to burn a flag. Definition: conspicuously or obviously offensive

6. Girth (noun) “GERTH” Girth is the distance around a thing, A simple kind of measuring. Post-holiday circumference Around your waist can be immense. REMEMBER THIS : If you’re going to give birth, expect some girth. Definition: the measurement around the middle of something, esp. a person's waist.

7. Impasse (noun) “IM-pass” It’s a place you can’t get past. It’s a stalemate, A dead end. Have you ever hit an impasse With a parent or a friend? REMEMBER THIS : If you’re stuck and can’t pass, you’re at an impasse. Definition: a situation in which no progress is possible, esp. because of disagreement; a deadlock:

8. Judicious (adj) “Joo-DISH-us” Judge Judy is judicious. She must be fair and wise— Showing soundest judgment— Although she might despise All those goofballs and their lies. REMEMBER THIS : Judicious—like a judge. Definition: having, showing, or done with good judgment or sense:

9. Muse (verb) “MYOOZE” It’s to think and to daydream, To ponder, to gaze. When you sit and you muse, You might look in a daze. REMEMBER THIS : The day I was musing my boss said, “No snoozing!” Definition: be absorbed in thought

10. Ostentatious (adj) “Os-ten-TAY-shus” Ostentatious tells of those Who try to dazzle or impress With their cars and with their houses, With their style of speech and dress. REMEMBER THIS : Austin Powers is ostentatious. Definition: adj. characterized by vulgar or pretentious display; designed to impress or attract notice

11. Penury (noun) “PEN-yuh-ree” It’s extreme poverty. Little Oliver Twist Knew such bad penury, He could barely exist. REMEMBER THIS : If you live in penury, you can’t spare a penny. Definition: extreme poverty; destitution

12. Week 006 Assignment 4-Fold Vocabulary In this activity, students fold their papers into rows of 4 sections each. The number of row can relate to the number of words to be studied. In the first section, the student writes the word. In the 2nd section, the student writes a definition of the word in their own words. In the 3rd section, the student draws a picture or symbol to represent the word. In the 4th section, the student writes a sentence with the word based on their definition. After completing the page, the students cut apart the sections and put them in an envelope. The words are review by having student reassemble the word rows. Students can trade rows/envelopes with others.