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Unit 4: Express Yourself

Unit 4: Express Yourself. Vocabulary. Competent, adj. Capable and qualified Competency A competent student knows how to study and prepare for tests. Emphasis, n. A type of special attention or importance To emphasize, emphasizes, emphasized, emphasizing

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Unit 4: Express Yourself

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  1. Unit 4: Express Yourself Vocabulary

  2. Competent, adj. • Capable and qualified • Competency • A competent student knows how to study and prepare for tests.

  3. Emphasis, n. • A type of special attention or importance • To emphasize, emphasizes, emphasized, emphasizing • Teachers repeatedly make an emphasis on the importance of reading.

  4. Emulate, v. • To do something or behave in the same way as someone else, mimic, imitate • Emulates, emulated, emulating, emulation (n), emulative (adj) • Children like to emulate parents’ actions.

  5. Enhance, v • To make better or improve • Enhances, enhancing, enhanced, enhancement (n) • What can you do to enhance your college opportunities?

  6. Precision, n. • Exactness or accuracy • Precise (adj), precisively (adv) • Math problems should be done with precision so mistakes are not made.

  7. Subtle, adj. • Hard to notice, not obvious • Subtler, subtlest, subtlety (n), subtleties (n), subtly (adv) • Although the students were subtle when they were cheating, they got caught.

  8. Vary, v. • To be different, not the same • Varies, varied, varying, variety/ varieties (n),varietal (adj) • All children vary in their personalities and likes.

  9. Visualize, v. • To imagine in your head what it looks like • Visualizes/ visualized/ visualizing, visual/s (n & adj), visually (adv), visualization (n) • Descriptive words help the reader to visualize the story.

  10. Abbreviated, adj. • Something made shorter, shortened, smaller in length • To abbreviate/ abbreviates/ abbreviated/ abbreviating, abbreviation (n.) • We read the abbreviated story because we only had a 30 minutes to read. • Doctor= Dr. • Arizona= AZ

  11. Ambience, n. • The feeling or mood associated with a place or thing • Ambiance, ambient (adj.) • The restaurant had a nice ambience with it’s soft music, comfortable chairs and friendly staff.

  12. Articulate, adj. • Expressing ideas clearly and effectively when speaking • To articulate/ articulates/ articulated/ articulating, articulation(s) • Articulate students are able to tell the teacher their exact answers.

  13. Humiliation, n. • A feeling of shame and embarrassment • To humiliate/ humiliates/ humiliated/ humiliating (v&adj.), humiliatingly • The boy felt humiliation when his date left him for another guy at the dance.

  14. Intimidating, adj. • Situations to make people feel nervous, scared or frightened • To intimidate/ intimidates/ intimidated/ intimidating, intimidatingly (adv.), intimidation • Sometimes it’s intimidating to talk to a person you like if they are talking to someone else.

  15. Obligation, n. • A duty or responsibility you have because your conscience, family, or society demands it • Obligatory (adj.), to obligate (v) • As a US citizen, I have an obligation to vote in every election.

  16. Stimulating, adj. • Interesting, exciting, thought-provoking, or full of new ideas • To stimulate (v), stimulation (n.), stimulatingly (adv.) • Pres. Obama’s stimulating speech makes me believe he will be a great president.

  17. Surpass, v. • To become better or greater than before, go beyond, to pass, exceed • Unsurpass (v.), Surpassable/ unsurpassable (adj.), • Each time a students takes AIMs they hope to surpass their previous score.

  18. Accentuate, v. • Make something more noticeable • Accentuates/ accentuated/ accentuating, accent (n) • Most people like to accentuate their best qualities.

  19. Banish, v. • To remove someone or something completely and not be allowed back • Banishes/ banished/ banishing, banishment (n) • When students are expelled they are banished from Hamilton forever!

  20. Countenance, n. • The look on your face, or your expression • Countenances • People try to hide their feelings but most of the time their countenance gives it away.

  21. Discerning, adj. • Having the ability to make good judgments about someone or something • To discern, discernment • The discerning high school teacher was able to identify the troubled student.

  22. Disrespectful, adj. • Treat someone or something in an insulting way, no respect • To disrespect, respect, respectful • Talking back to a teacher is rude and disrespectful, always!!!

  23. Enlist, v. • to convince someone to help or give support • Enlistment, enlisted (adj) • Mrs. Bevill enlists students to hand out papers for her.

  24. Enumerate, v. • To name or list things one by one • Enumeration • It would be boring to listen to someone enumerate their favorite 20 foods.

  25. Interminably, adv. • Without ending, long • Interminable, intermittent • The boy cried interminably when his girlfriend broke up with him.

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