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Vocabulary

Wordy Wednesday:
-Every Wednesday you will enter four words onto the next blank page in the vocabulary section of your comp book.
-Here is a link to the grading instructions I wrote for the parents.

Vocabulary Table of Contents


Once a week (or less), I will give you sheets from a book called "Daily Vocabulary for High School" and ask you to run through the following process:
  1. Choose one day's sheet from the week's set.  No two people at a table should have the same day.
  2. Complete the sheet.  Use context clues from the paragraph and/or other sources to learn the words. Turn it in.
  3. Choose three of the five words and enter them into the next available page of the vocabulary section of your composition book.
  4. Choose the one "best" word and teach it to the other three people at your table.
  5. Fill the fourth block on the vocabulary page with the "best of the best" from your table.
  6. For each of the four words in your comp book, add a definition and a sentence or two that exhibit your understanding of the words.
  7. Enter two of those sentences into the form below.

Daily Vocabulary for High School



Daily Vocabulary for High School



Your Top Ten from 2011:

Best Ten of 2011





The following is the entire list of 100 words:
1. accentuate
2. alliteration
3. analogy
4. antibody
5. aspire
6. bamboozle
7. bizarre
8. boisterous
9. boycott
10. camouflage
11. chronology
12. commemorate
13. cower
14. decorum
15. deduction
16. deign
17. despondent
18. dialogue
19. divulge
20. eclectic
21. ellipse
22. embargo
23. enthusiastic
24. exponent
25. exult
26. fallacy
27. flourish
28. formidable
29. gargoyle
30. guerrilla
31. guru
32. heritage
33. hieroglyphic
34. hologram
35. hypocrisy
36. immune
37. impertinent
38. inference
39. introspection
40. jaunty
41. jovial
42. kilometer
43. labyrinth
44. laconic
45. lichen
46. light-year
47. maneuver
48. marsupial
49. metaphor
50. mosaic
51. mutation
52. nebula
53. nocturnal
54. nuisance
55. omnivore
56. outrageous
57. ozone
58. parasite
59. participle
60. phloem
61. plateau
62. polygon
63. protagonist
64. pulverize
65. quandary
66. quarantine
67. quota
68. rainforest
69. random
70. recede
71. renaissance
72. renegade
73. repose
74. sacrifice
75. silhouette
76. solstice
77. spectrum
78. stereotype
79. strategy
80. suffrage
81. symbiosis
82. tariff
83. technique
84. tempo
85. toxin
86. tranquility
87. tumult
88. tundra
89. ultraviolet
90. unanimous
91. undulate
92. vaccine
93. vacillate
94. vertebrate
95. virtuoso
96. voracious
97. wretched
98. xylem
99. yacht
100. zoology
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Vocabulary from Calvin and Hobbes


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