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VOCAB 12.5 VOCABULARY 12.5 SWBAT determine word meanings from context clues. SWBAT use word parts (roots, prefixes, suffixes) to determine meaning of unfamiliar words RAPID FIRE AGENDA

7 mins: learn words in context & teach to table 10 mins: part of speech, misunderstandings, CFUs 15 mins: practice GROUP ASSIGNMENTS You have 30 seconds to determine who in your group is: George Washington

John Adams Thomas Jefferson James Madison James Monroe ASSIGNMENTS: Washington: Words 3 & 4 Adams: Words 5 & 6 Jefferson: Words 1 & 2 Madison: Words 9 & 10 Monroe: Words 7 & 8 INDIGENT

Part of Speech adjective Definition Synonyms Antonym Special Usage Experiencing want or need; impoverished

poor, povertystricken rich, affluent, wealthy indigently adv. indigence n. the indigent, n. CFU: INDIGENT Do you agree that the poor rather than the rich

should be responsible for making the rules of society? INFRINGE Part of Speech Definition Synony ms Antonym

Special Usage verb To transgress or encroach, exceed the impose, limits of; violate intrude, invade, transgress, trespass Comply

obey Infringement, infringer noun CFU: INFRINGE What is the most important right that people have that you feel the United States Government should NOT infringe upon? Why? DOCUMENT

Part of Speech Definition Synonyms Antonym verb To record in Log, chronicle, written, report photographic or other form Special

Usage CFU: DOCUMENT Why is it essential to document the sources that you use in a research essay or report? OSTENSIBLE Part of Speech Definition Synonyms Antonym

Special Usage adjective Represented or appearing as such; evident ostensibly adv. Apparent, pretended, professed, supposed,

alleged genuine, real, honest CFU: OSTENSIBLE What argument is Teddy Roosevelt making about the perception of

government SPECIOUS Part of Definition Speech adjective Plausible, but not true; based on a sham Synonyms Antony m

Special Usage Deceptive, false, true, direct, misleading honest speciously adv. speciousness n. CFU: SPECIOUS What might be a specious excuse you could tell for not completing your AP English

homework? Copia was a Latin singular noun meaning a lot. Adding us to a singular noun made it a plural noun, so copius literally meant a lot of a lot. COPIOUS Part of Speech Definition

Synonyms Antonym adjective Large in quantity; abundant ample, bountiful, plentiful Special Usage

lacking, meager, copiously adv. scant, rare copiousness n. CFU: COPIOUS What is something you would like to have a copious amount of? What is something you WOULD NOT like to have a copious amount of? EXTRANEOUS Part of Definition

Speech adjective Unessential or unrelated to the topic or matter at hand Synony ms Antony m irrelevant, essential,

needless, necessary, nonessential, needed peripheral, redundant, superfluous Special Usage extraneously adv. extraneousness n. CFU: EXTRANEOUS

What is one reason that you should avoid writing about extraneous details in a Timed Argument Essay? MUNDANE Part of Speech Definition Synonyms Antonym Special Usage adjective

commonplace; ordinary. mundanely adv. mundaneness mundanity n. banal, unimaginative, everyday extraordinary, unusual

CFU: MUNDANE What is something that a teacher can do to keep class from becoming mundane? PROGENY Part of Speech Definitio n Synonyms

noun An offspring or a descendant. Offspring or descendants considered as a group. breed, children, product, descendants, lineage

Antonym Special Usage n. pl. progeny progenies CFU: PROGENY What inference can you make about how Mary Shelley feels

about her novel Frankenstei n when she SONOROUS Part of Speec h Definition Synonym Antony Special

s m Usage adjective Having or producing a full, deep, or rich grandiloquent, quiet, bass, mute, soft booming, rich,

sonorously adv. sonorousness n. CFU: SONOROUS Read the following quotation in a sonorous voice: The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain. CLOSING: LOW-STAKES WRITING