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Vocabulary Solutions: Dissolution, Foraging, Amendable, Precarious, Criterion, Guise, Lesion, Gird, Fetish, Disperse

Learn the meanings of the words dissolution, foraging, amendable, precarious, criterion, guise, lesion, gird, fetish, and disperse. Enhance your vocabulary skills with these word definitions.

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Vocabulary Solutions: Dissolution, Foraging, Amendable, Precarious, Criterion, Guise, Lesion, Gird, Fetish, Disperse

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  1. Vocab10 Voc 10

  2. noun dissolution To break into parts; to terminate a contract Link: Solution Also: dissolve Solution for the DISSOLUTION … Voc 10

  3. Verb forage To search for food Link: forest Wild animals FORAGING for food in the FOREST. Voc 10

  4. NOT: amendable adj amenable Agreeable, responsible to authority, pleasant, cooperative Link: Mean bull Also: amenability Mean bulls are NOT amenable Voc 10

  5. adj precarious unsafe, unsteady, unstable Link: Carry us • Carry us when it’s precarious… Voc 10

  6. noun criterion Standard for judgment Also: Criteria = plural Link: librarian The librarian often uses Shakespeare as a criterion for determining great plays. Voc 10

  7. noun guise Appearance; semblance Link: disguise GUISE means actual appearance DISGUISE means pretend/fake appearance To be disguised the spy would have to change his guise. Voc 10

  8. noun lesion wound, injury; especially one created by a disease Link: LEGION Soldiersof the Foreign LEGION suffering from their LESIONS. Voc 10

  9. verb gird To encircle as with a belt; to prepare as for action Link: herd Link: HERD Curly GIRDED the HERD with his trusty lasso. Voc 10

  10. noun fetish an object of unreasonable obsessive reverence or attention Link: The BRITISH have a FETISH for tea. Voc 10

  11. verb disperse Scatter; distribute widely Also: dispersal Link: PURSE The thug DISPERSED Dee’s PURSE... Voc 10

  12. Greek + Latin WORD PARTS Know these, know 1000’s! Voc 10

  13. Word Roots: Your chart Voc 10

  14. Word Roots: Your chart Voc 10

  15. Word Roots: Your chart Voc 10

  16. Vocab10 RELATED WORDS Voc 10

  17. dissolution NOUN Dissolutedissolve adj The dissolution of the team.. The dissolute team… Voc 10

  18. criteria plural criterion singular The criteria for college are that you… The one criterion is that you… Voc 10

  19. dissolution NOUN dissolve VERB The dissolution of the team was… The team dissolved… Voc 10

  20. disperse verb dispersal noun The crowd dispersed… The dispersal of the crowd… Voc 10

  21. amenable adj amenability noun She was amenable to the instructions… Her amenability to the instructions was… Voc 10

  22. Vocab 10 Which word? Quiz Voc 10

  23. 1. • to encircle • to prepare Voc 10

  24. 2. to search or hunt for food Voc 10

  25. 3. willing; pleasant; agreeable Voc 10

  26. 4. to scatter Voc 10

  27. 5. unsafe Voc 10

  28. 6. appearance Voc 10

  29. 7. a breaking up into parts Voc 10

  30. 8. an object causing obsessive behavior Voc 10

  31. 9. A standard or basis for judgment Voc 10

  32. 10. wound Voc 10

  33. WORD PARTS 11. EARTH [root] Voc 10

  34. WORD PARTS 12. FORMER Out of [root] Voc 10

  35. WORD PARTS 13. RULE POWER [root] Voc 10

  36. WORD PARTS 14. The science of the earth’s forces, motion, + energy Voc 10

  37. WORD PARTS 15. Foreign …or from ‘beyond’ Voc 10

  38. WORD PARTS 16. Rule or dominance of fathers Voc 10

  39. WORD PARTS 17. To become glad; to become happier than your former mood Voc 10

  40. WORD PARTS 18. To push or flow out, (as in a liquid) Voc 10

  41. WORD PARTS 19. Ranking by importance Voc 10

  42. WORD PARTS 20. Study of the earth (general properties) Voc 10

  43. Answers1 1. gird 2. Forage 3. amenable 4. disperse 5. precarious Voc 10

  44. Answers2 6. guise 7. dissolution 8. fetish 9. criterion 10. lesion Voc 10

  45. Answers3 11. GEO 12. EX 13. ARCHY 14. GEOphysics 15. EXotic Voc 10

  46. Answers4 16. patriARCHY 17. EXhilarate 18. EXcrete 19. hierARCHY 20. GEOlogy Voc 10

  47. Words confused or misused Words with similar sounds In English, many words sound alike but are spelled differently and have different meanings. It’s/its It’s is a contraction of it is or it has. It’s not easy. it’s = it is It’s been a long time. it’s = it has Its is a possessive form that means “belonging to it.” That tree has not lost its leaves yet.

  48. Words confused or misused Words with similar sounds They’re/there/their They’re is a contraction of they are. They’re walking to school. There is an adverb that means “at that place.” There is also used to begin a sentence. Have you been there yet? “at that place” There is too much pepper in this! begins sentence

  49. belonging to them They are at that place Words confused or misused Words with similar sounds They’re/there/their They’rebuildingtheirnew house rightthere.

  50. Words confused or misused Words with similar sounds You’re/your You’re is a contraction of you are. You’re always on time. Your is the possessive form of you, meaning “belonging to you.” Your coat is in the closet.

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