Vocabulary 10th and 12th Grade: 

English Honors:

English Honors II English Honors IV

Week 16 Vocabulary ANTE “before”   POST “after” 

  1. antecedent
  2. ante meridian
  3. post meridian
  4. postgraduate
  5. postmortem
  6. postscript

BI “two”  SEMI “half” or “partly”

  1. bicameral
  2. bicentennial
  3. biennial
  4. semiannual
  5. bimonthly
  6. bilateral
  7. bilingual
  8. bisect
  9. bipartisan

Week 16 Extra 20 Commonly Misspelled Words: Know how to spell these words

  1. accidentally
  2. a lot
  3. believe
  4. calendar
  5. category
  6. column
  7. conscience
  8. discipline
  9. embarrass
  10. experience
  11. grateful
  12. height
  13. immediate
  14. license
  15. misspell
  16. noticeable
  17. possession
  18. privilege
  19. rhyme
  20. weather

 

  
Week 13 Vocabulary "The Necklace" and review test for school wide vocabulary No Vocabulary

 
Week 12 Vocabulary  "The Necklace" p. 199
  1. finesse
  2. suppleness
  3. incessantly
  4. inestimable
  5. chagrin
  6. elated
  7. stupefied
  8. immoderate
  9. homage
  10. nocturnal
  11. usurer
  12. odious
  13. irony
  14. protagonist
  15. antagonist
 Week 12

No Vocabulary Test

(Computer Lab Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday)

Work on Personal Portfolio

 

 

 

 

 
Week 11 Review Test on all Vocabulary words from the beginning of the year until now.  Test will be on Thursday.

 

 Week 11 Review Test on all Vocabulary words from the beginning of the year until now.  Test will be on Friday.

 
Week 10 Vocabulary: No Vocabulary this week

Review test next Thursday

 Week 10 Vocabulary

No Vocabulary test this week
Week 9 Vocabulary  October 13-17

School Wide Words of the Week:

 

  1. accentuate

  2. augment

  3. cynical

  4. Somber

  5. inept

  6. despondent

  7. commemorate

 

prefixes learned:

 

  1. dis    (not)

  2. a or ab  (away or from)

  3. de  (removal or stopping)

  4. con or com  (together, jointly, mutually)

 

 Week 9 Vocabulary  October 13-17

School Wide Words of the Week:

 

  1. accentuate

  2. augment

  3. cynical

  4. Somber

  5. inept

  6. despondent

  7. commemorate

     

    prefixes learned:

     

    1. dis    (not)

    2. a or ab  (away or from)

    3. de  (removal or stopping)

    4. con or com  (together, jointly, mutually)

     

    We will be testing on last weeks words this week

 

Week 8 Vocabulary:  The Hitchhiker page 979

 

  1. outset

  2. phosphorescent

  3. nondescript

  4. ominous

  5. sober

  6. willies

  7. throttle

  8. sinister

  9. beckon

  10. prostrate

 

 

School Wide Words of the Week:

 

  1. accentuate

  2. augment

  3. cynical

  4. Somber

  5. inept

  6. despondent

 

prefixes learned:

 

  1. dis

  2. a or ab

  3. de

 Week 8 Vocabulary

Week 8 Vocabulary:  Le Morte d, Arthur page 200

  1. wroth
  2. postern
  3. necromancy
  4. wax
  5. countenance
  6. usurp
  7. appurtenance
  8. inter
  9. indignation
  10. providence
  11. obeisance
  12. summon
  13. betwixt
  14. nourish
  15. remnant

School Wide Vocabulary

1. accentuate

2.  augment

3.  cynical

4.  somber

5.  inept

6.  despondent

 

prefixes learned:

 

  1. dis

  2. a or ab

  3. de

Week 6-7 Vocabulary (to be tested October 1, Wednesday)

Week 6 and 7 Vocabulary:

School Wide Word of the Week

  1. Accentuate

  2. Augment

  3. cynical

  4. Somber

 

Week 6 using suffix ABLE and IBLE =capable of

Vocabulary Week 6

 

1.   malleable               Capable of being shaped by hammering

 

2.   vulnerable               capable of or susceptible to being wounded or hurt physically or emotionally; susceptible to temptation or corrupt influence; open to or defenseless against criticism or moral attack; open to attack

 

3.   inexorable               unyielding; unalterable; not to be persuaded or affected by prayers or entreaties; merciless

                                   

4.   viable                     capable of living; having the ability to grow or develop; practicable or workable as-a viable alternative; capable of winning an election

 

5.   indefatigable           incapable of being tired out; untiring

 

6.   implacable              not to be appeased or pacified;

 

7.   risible                     causing or capable of causing laughter;  having the disposition or readiness to laugh

 

8.   irascible                  easily provoked to anger; very irritable

 

9.   indomitable             incapable of being subdued or overcome; indomitable courage;  indomitable big foot monster

 

10.  amiable                  having or showing agreeable personal qualities; pleasant; friendly; sociable; willing to accept the wishes, decisions, or suggestions of another; lovable or lovely

 

11.  commendable        to approve; to present or                                 worthy of attention or praise

 

12.  suitable                  appropriate; acceptable; fitting

 

13.  plausible                having the appearance of truth          

 

14.  applicable              relevant; suitable; appropriate

 

15.  pliable                   easily bent; flexible; easily influenced; yielding; adjusting readily; adaptable

 

 

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This Week __Review Poetic Devices
Week 5 Vocabulary Review

 

Review test on all words on Friday

Please study all the words

Identify the words that you do not know and highlight

Then---study the more difficult words daily to reinforce meaning

 Week 5 Vocabulary Review

 

Review test on all words on Friday

Please study all the words

Identify the words that you do not know and highlight

Then---study the more difficult words daily to reinforce meaning

 

Week 4 Vocabulary:  When Heaven and Earth Changed Places pg. 844

 

  1. ancestor

  2. anecdote

  3. avenge

  4. cultivate

  5. defect

  6. descendant

  7. diligent

  8. empathy

  9. entitle

  10. prospect

School wide Words:

             accentuate

             augment

 

 

Week 4 Vocabulary English IV Honors: 

“The Wife’s Lament” pg. 102

  1. asunder
  2. bearing
  3. blithe
  4. brooding
  5. dreary
  6. garrison
  7. hovel
  8. longing
  9. smote
  10. whorled

Please remember Literary Elements from last week as well

 

 

Week 3 Vocabulary:  From Desert Exile Page 835

  1. adept
  2. adjoining
  3. assuage
  4. baser
  5. communal
  6. conspicuous
  7. cursory
  8. degraded
  9. destitute
  10. erratic
  11. euphemism
  12. inclination
  13. inevitable
  14. ludicrous
  15. obsessive
  16. ravenously
  17. salvaged
  18. sporadically
  19. unwieldy
  20. ventilation
  21. venture

 

 Week 3 Vocabulary September 2-5

Literary elements

1.       alliteration

2.       anapest, or anapestic foot

3.       assonance

4.       caesura

5.       consonance

6.       dactyl, or dactylic foot

7.        epic

8.        iamb, or iambic foot

9.        kenning

10.      meter

11.      spondee, or spondaic foot

12.      trochee, or trochaic foot

13.      mnemonic

 
Week 2 Vocabulary August 24-28

#2 Vocabulary Word List

My Left Foot p.642

  1. impertinence
  2. conviction
  3. momentous
  4. inert
  5. involuntarily
  6. contention
  7. bondage
  8. volition
  9. immobile
  10. taut

Literary Elements

1.   alliteration

2.  assonance

3.  consonance

 

 

 

 

 

 

Week 2 Vocabulary August 24-28

Week 2 Vocabulary English IV Honors

  1. avenge

  2. billowing

  3. bog

  4. bolt

  5. brood

  6. cower

  7. heaving

  8. hoary

  9. infamous

  10. lamenting

  11. moor

  12. purge

  13. pyre

  14. spoil

  15. tribute

Literary elements

  1. alliteration

  2. anapest, or anapestic foot

  3. assonance

  4. caesura

  5. consonance

  6. dactyl, or dactylic foot

  7. epic

  8. iamb, or iambic foot

  9. kenning

  10. meter

  11. spondee, or spondaic foot

  12. trochee, or trochaic foot

  13. mnemonic

Week 1 Vocabulary August 18-22

Define the following words and then write a sentence showing you understand the definition:

1.  Surname:       

2.  Converse:         

3.  Reverse: 

4.  Alliteration:     

5.  Assonance:

6.  Consonance:     

Part B

List five different types of graphic organizers

7.       _______________________

8.      _______________________

9.      _______________________

10.  _______________________

11.  _______________________

 

12.  Y-axis descriptor

13.  X-axis descriptor

14.  Anecdote

School Wide Weekly Vocabulary

 

1. Accentuate

Definition: to give prominence to: emphasize or    intensify.

 

Sample sentence: “The sun streamed in from the windows behind him, and shadows lay over his face and accentuated the lines of his cheeks and jaw."

 ( Chaim Potok, The Chosen)

 

Prefix of the Week

 

  1. The prefix of the week is dis or dys

Definition: away, not, negative.

Sample words: dismiss, dysfunction, disconnect, disallow, dysfluent

 

Week 1  August 18-22

Beowulf

  1. gleeman

  2. scop

  3. Alliteration

  4. Consonance

  5. Assonance

  6. Caesura

  7. Epic

  8. Anglo Saxon

  9. Omnipotent

  10. Tone

  11. Protagonist

  12. Plot line (draw and label)

  13. dénouement

  14. Motif

  15. Foreshadow

 

School Wide Weekly Vocabulary

 

1. Accentuate

Definition: to give prominence to: emphasize or    intensify.

 

Sample sentence: “The sun streamed in from the windows behind him, and shadows lay over his face and accentuated the lines of his cheeks and jaw."

 ( Chaim Potok, The Chosen)

 

Prefix of the Week

 

  1. The prefix of the week is dis or dys

Definition: away, not, negative.

Sample words: dismiss, dysfunction, disconnect, disallow, dysfluent