Vocabulary Words for Test This Friday (11/2)

EXTRA CREDIT SHEETS

Extra credit sentence study sheets are available.  If all 40 words are documented correctly on the study sheets on the day that the test is given, those students will receive a +10 extra credit, the equivalent of a full grade increase.  As these are extra credit, it is an all-or-nothing opportunity without the opportunity for partial grades or late credit.


QUIZLET
 
Students are encouraged to use the databanks available at Quizlet.com as an aid for study.


JEOPARY!

Vocabulary Jeopardy will occur the day before the test as a fun opportunity to review the words.

WORD LIST BY READING SELECTION

 “Homeless” by Anna Quindlen p. 101

                        Words to Know:  rummage, legacy, enfeebled, crux, compassionate

 “The War of the Wall” by Toni Cade Bambara p. 109-116

                        Words to Know:  drawl, scheme, beckon, liberation, inscription

 “Rikki-tikki-tavi” by Rudyard Kipling p. 123-134

                        Words to Know:  revive, cower, consolation, cunningly, scuttle

 “After Twenty Years” by O. Henry p. 157-160

                        Words to Know:  habitual, vicinity, staunchest, dismally, simultaneously

 “A Retrieved Reformation” by O. Henry p. 163 – 170

Words to Know:  assiduously, virtuous, compulsory, rehabilitate, balk, eminent, retribution, elusive, unobtrusive, unperceived (10)

 “What Do Fish Have to Do with Anything?” by Avi p. 207 – 215

                        Words to Know:  interval, urgency, contemplate, intently, nuisance

                       

from “Immigrant Kids” by Russell Freedman p. 224-228

                        Words to Know:  impoverished, fervent, din, indomitable, teeming

WORD LIST

1.        ASSIDUOUSLY

2.        BALK

3.        BECKON

4.        COMPASSIONATE

5.        COMPULSORY

6.        CONSOLATION

7.        CONTEMPLATE

8.        COWER

9.        CRUX

10.      CUNNINGLY

11.      DIN

12.      DISMALLY

13.      DRAWL

14.      ELUSIVE

15.      EMINENT

16.      ENFEEBLED

17.      FERVENT

18.      HABITUAL

19.      IMPOVERISHED

20.      INDOMITABLE

21.      INSCRIPTION

22.      INTENTLY

23.      INTERVAL

24.      LEGACY

25.      LIBERATION

26.      NUISANCE

27.      REHABILITATE

28.      RETRIBUTION

29.      REVIVE

30.      RUMMAGE

31.      SCHEME

32.      SCUTTLE

33.      SIMULTANEOUSLY

34.      STAUNCHEST

35.      TEEMING

36.      UNOBTRUSIVE

37.      UNPERCEIVED

38.      URGENCY

39.      VICINITY

40.      VIRTUOUS