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Vocabulary –Week One

Vocabulary –Week One. Here are the first ten words for your notebook. Write the word and its definition in your notebook. Alliteration – The repetition of consonant sounds in a line of verse.

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Vocabulary –Week One

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  1. Vocabulary –Week One Here are the first ten words for your notebook.

  2. Write the word and its definition in your notebook... • Alliteration – The repetition of consonant sounds in a line of verse. • Allusion – Making an indirect reference to something well-known such as a song, poem, a famous book or landmark, a work of art • Benevolent – showing sympathy, understanding or generosity. • Benign – kindness of disposition or manner • Connotation – an idea this is suggested or implied.

  3. Write the word and its definition in your notebook... • Culture – all the knowledge and values shared by a society • Definitely – Without question and beyond doubt • Democracy – a government favored by the people or by their elected representatives. • Denotation – the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression • Discrimination – unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice.

  4. Vocabulary –Week Two Here are the first ten words for your notebook. Homework-Write a sentence using each word appropriately with respect to parts of speech. (Noun (person, place, thing, idea, Verb (action word), Adjective (describing)…) Use a dictionary or www.dictionary.com to find the etymology of each word. Etymology – Word source, word origin-This is abbreviated at the beginning or end of where the word is defined. Ex. Culture cul·ture [kuhl-cher] noun, verb, cul·tured, cul·tur·ing. nounOrigin: 1400–50; late Middle English:

  5. Write the word and its definition in your notebook... • Considerate -showing concern for the rights and feelings of others EXAMPLE SENTENCE:Even top chefs, wise to the PR value, no longer mind too much as long as you're considerate to fellow diners. • Empathy - understanding and entering into another's feelings EXAMPLE SENTENCE: Further research in this area suggests that if one person does not like another, for whatever reason, then feelings of empathy are less likely. • Confer - to present EXAMPLE SENTENCE: The six umpires conferred before allowing the translator to come out while Darvish kept stretching and then threw a couple of pitches. • Emancipate - free from slavery or servitude EXAMPLE SENTENCE: The other exodus involved black Africans brought to America as slaves and emancipated only  • Coincide - happen simultaneously EXAMPLE SENTENCE: Star appearances will coincide with musical performances and updates on research programs.

  6. Write the word and its definition in your notebook... • Advocate - a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea EXAMPLE SENTENCE:But the Humane Society and other animal advocates maintain that housing sows in gestation crates is cruel. • Proactive - of a policy or person or action) controlling a situation by causing something to happen rather than waiting to respond to it after it happens EXAMPLE SENTENCE:Through perseverance, some amazing forward thinking Marine leaders, and a little bit of luck, I ultimately created a thriving proactive counseling program. • Altruistic - showing unselfish concern for the welfare of others EXAMPLE SENTENCE:It was taken there by an altruistic 47-year-old public servant who said he had been given the money as a bribe. • Affect - have an effect upon EXAMPLE SENTENCE:The researchers found that antidepressants also may affect driving negatively. • Effect - a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon EXAMPLE SENTENCE:In effect, he said, the companies are circumventing the regulatory process.

  7. Etymology – Where a word originates • Considerate – Latin / Middle English • Empathy - Greek • Confer – Middle English • Emancipate – Latin • Coincide – Latin • Advocate – Latin • Proactive – Modern English • Altruistic – French • Affect – Middle English • Effect – Middle English

  8. Vocabulary –Week Three Here are the first ten words for your notebook.

  9. Write the word and its definition in your notebook... • acumen - shrewdness shown by keen insight • auspicious - auguring favorable circumstances and good luck • bellicose - having or showing a ready disposition to fight • chicanery - the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) • churlish - having a bad disposition; surly

  10. Write the following vocabulary in your notebook • epiphany - a divine inspiration • gauche - lacking social polish • homogenous - all of the same or similar kind or nature • hubris - overbearing pride or presumption • incognito - without revealing one's identity

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