The Odyssey Vocabulary Literary Terms to know for Odyssey
1) Name two places you would like to plunder.
2) Name an animal known for its valor.
3) Who is the most formidable opponent the Celtics will face this year?
4) Would you rather be gifted with guile or never be able to lie?
5) Name two things that would irk you during a test?
6) What is the worst way to rouse a sleeping teenager?
7) What would you do if some lout cut you in line?
8) Would you rather have prodigious talent or prodigious wealth?
9) Make a mandate for your parents that would help your entire family.
10) Entreat your teacher to have a dance party in class on Friday.
11) If you made an ice cream called "bliss" what flavor would it be?
12) Why was Mr. Ruderman appalled when he looked over his son's math homework?
13) What is the most ponderous issue facing our country today?
14) when was the last time you experienced a din?
15) Strike a pose that shows me you are pondering something important.
16) Where might you find a profusion of confusion?
17) Turn to the person on your left and give them a cordial greeting.
18) What would make you reel more, flying to the moon or going to prom with a movie star?
19) Come up with two synonyms for "sage".
20) What is the best way to convey a full cup of water across a room?
Name an animal that is not known for its agility.
How often do you feel famished?
How long does it take you to recuperate after running a fast mile?
What might makes your grades plummet?
Why might you scoff at a teacher who says he liked your last essay?
What is an indignity that one might suffer in the cafeteria?
Name two products other that the soft drink that could be called "brisk."
Name two people whom you consider to be of a high caliber.
What is a valuable commodity on a cold winter day?
Where might you find hordes of crazed middle-schoolers?
What are two synonyms or phrases that mean "injustice."
What is the last book you devoured?
How did the sneaky student orchestrate widespread cheating on the multiple-choice test?
Name two animals that are gregarious.
Would you rather be naive or innocent?
I heard a murmur in the hall. What was it?
Why do you think the pilgrims that it was okay to be materialistic?
We've talked about the challenges of gentrification. What do you think the benefits might be?
In what way is Zeus the perfect god for a paternalistic society?
What do parishioners usually wear on Sundays?
Romeo and Juliet Vocabulary
1. Name three things you’d find in a vestibule
2. Give a presumptuous response to someone who asks you how you did on a quiz.
3. Role play a situation where your parents are indifferent to a concern you have.
4. Which character displays incoherence in this play? Explain your reason.
5. Condole a friend who was rooting for the Dolphins to make the Super Bowl.
6. When does a freshman have to be doughty?
7. Make up a hex to vex one of your enemies.
8. How might you instigate a riot in your Biology class?
9. What would you say to Tom Brady if he was bawling after a game?
10. What might your sibling do that would make you fume?
11. Name a character in the movies who tends to be bibulous.
12. Practice making a scary countenance.
13. Where might one witness a fusillade?
14. In what way is Romeo languishing at the start of the play?
I. Circle the best antonym for the following vocabulary words:
Vestibule parlor, back hall, front porch, pantaloon
Fusillade ceasefire, assailant, gunshot, porcelain
Languish rejuvenate aspire brevity longing
Bibulous drunkenly smallish bravely healthy
Bawled exclaimed complained praised wept
Vex torment pity anger soothe
Instigate trouble corrupt endure make peace
Pulsating dormant vibrating alive throbbing
II. True of false?
Ruining a friend’s favorite sweatshirt could make him fume? T/F
After eating ice cream one’s countenance may need a napkin? T/F
Mercutio behaves in a chaste manner. T/F
Juliet is indifferent to the news of Tybalt’s death. T/F
You should never condole a person who has recently lost a loved one. T/F
To Kill a Mockingbird Vocabulary
Day 2
1. What type of plants are indigenous in a desert climate?
2. Describe what an erratic driver might do to have a state trooper pull him over.
3. Name a malevolent character in a movie or t.v. show you’ve seen.
4. What kind of instrument might a scientist use to see a barely discernible item?
5. What motivates you to persevere with a tedious reading assignment?
6. Why is it important for a nursery school teacher to be amiable?
7. What is the most placid natural setting you’ve visited recently?
8. Describe one auspicious occurrence this fall that made you think you’d like WHS.
Voc List 1, Activity 3
Directions: Fill in each blank below and finish the sentence with original content and correct grammar. Choose nouns, verbs, and additional adjectives, and adverbs with care and precision.
1. a placid __________________ would look . . .
2. an auspicious _____________ would start . . .
3. an amiable _______________ would . . .
4. a malevolent ______________ would . . .
5. an erratic _________________ would. . .
6. an indigenous _____________ would be found . . .
7. a discernible ______________ would be easy to . . .
8. a persevering ______________ would . . .
Vocabulary List 2, Activity 2
1. Scout describes Aunt Alexandra as being analogous to Mt. Everest: _________ and _________.
2. To which character is Atticus cordial even after she repeatedly insults him and his children?
3. After she makes him livid, what does Jem do to a neighbor’s beautiful flowers?
4. Give one of the rumors about Boo Radley’s nocturnal adventures?
5. In what two skills does Scout demonstrate prowess uncommon for a first grader?
6. What compromise does Atticus make with Scout after she has a horrific first day of school?
Would you consider this a tacit agreement?
7. Aunt Alexandra gives almost a tirade on her feelings of several subjects. What was any one of them about?
8. For reasons Scout describes as unfathomable, autumn turned to winter in Maycomb county.
What do you think this expression about the season change meant?
Voc List 2, Activity 3
1. What would a report card look like that would be analogous to pitching a no-hitter?
2. Give an example of a cordial departure line you might make after meeting your mother’s boss for
the first time?
3. What could you do that might provoke one of your parents to become livid and deliver a tirade?
4. Name two animals noted for being nocturnal.
5. In which of the arts do you have the most prowess?
6. What is a subject that you sometimes find unfathomable?
7. What might you and your friends have a tacit agreement about?
Lord of the Flies Vocabulary, Chapters 1-2
Gesticulate that you want something so that other know what you want.
What do you do to make your parents more pliant?
If you were climbing a mountain, what three things might hinder your progress?
Role-play a scenario in which you are recriminated by a police officer.
Name two animals that are known for being furtive.
Can you “proffer” some advice to Piggy?
The root of “incredulous” is creder, which means to believe in Latin. Name three other words that share that root and explain why they use it.
What happens when light suffuses?
Why might Gatorade make someone go on a tirade at a parade?
Why might a person be immured?
Finish this sentence, "WHS is a bastion of __________________"
Why did the English teacher take a hiatus from work?
What did the hostile crowd do after the Patriot's kicker missed a field goal?
When do toddlers show ebullience?
What would an officious English teacher dress like?
Name two synonyms for "assented."
What would it mean if you were described as a "newly-fledged" sophomore?
Name a city known for its effulgence?
Name two sports teams that have a lot of enmity for each other.
How decorous should one be at a prom?
When is it wrong to interpose in a fight?
What does this mean? The irrelevance of Piggy is at the heart of the boys' struggles."
Name a machine that uses a fulcrum.
Vocabulary - Unit #1
1. admonish: (v.) to caution or advise against something; to scold mildly; to remind of a duty
2. breach: (n.) an opening, gap; a violation or infraction. (v.) to create an opening, break through
3. brigand: (n.) a bandit
4. circumspect: (adj.) careful, cautious
5. commandeer: (v.) to seize for military or official use
6. cumbersome: (adj.) clumsy, hard to handle; slow-moving
7. deadlock: (n.) a complete standstill; (v.) to bring to a standstill
8. debris: (n.) scattered fragments, wreckage
9. diffuse: (v.) to spread or scatter freely or widely; (adj.) wordy, long-winded, or unfocused; scattered or widely spread
10. dilemma: (n.) a difficult or perplexing situation or problem
11. efface: (v.) to wipe out; to keep oneself from being noticed
12. muddle: (v.) to make a mess of; to get by; (n.) a hopeless mess
13. opinionated: (adj.) stubborn and often unreasonable in holding to one's own ideas, having a closed mind
14. perennial: (adj.) lasting for a long time, persistent; (n.) a plant that lives for many years
15. predispose: (v.) to incline to beforehand
16. relinquish: (v.) to let go, give up
17. salvage: (v.) to save from fire or shipwreck; (n.) property thus saved
18. spasmodic: (adj.) sudden and violent but brief; fitful, intermittent
19. spurious: (adj.) not genuine, not true, not valid
20. unbridled: (adj.) uncontrolled, lacking in restraint
Robust Exercises Unit 1
1. How might a company respond to a breach in security?
2. If you were a brigand, what name would you go by?
3. Role play a situation in which someone is circumspect about going into Boston.
4. Why might someone commandeer a tricycle?
5. What’s worse muddling through a speech or mumbling through a speech?
6. Why are the Patriots perennial Super Bowl contenders?
7. How might a convicted felon salvage his reputation?
8. Go ahead, do a little spasmodic drumming on your desk.
9. Make up a spurious rumor about your Math teacher.
10. How are unbridled horses like unbridled students?
Unit 2
Adjourn, alien, comely, compensate, dissolute, erratic, expulsion, feint, fodder, fortify, illegible, jeer, lucrative, mediocre, proliferate, subjugate, sully, tantalize, terse, unflinching
1) For what reason might the president adjourn a meeting?
2) Name two plants that are alien to Winchester?
3) What would you say to a chef after he served you a mediocre meal?
4) Come up with the fodder for a good episode of your favorite show?
5) Role play a situation where a parent and a child are both being terse?
6) what’s a good way to fortify a sand castle?
7) write your name illegibly at the top of this piece of paper? (or any piece of paper.)
8) Name a character in literature who’s known for being unflinching?
9) Name two things that should not proliferate.
10) How is a jeer different than a cheer?
1) What are two qualities that would make a poem seem comely to you?
2) How does Tom Brady compensate for his lack of strength and speed/
3) Who is the most dissolute character you've read about this year?
4) The pitcher's throw was erratic. What did it hit?
5) What caused Silly Susan's expulsion from cooking school?
6) Name two settings where it might be a good idea to feint once in a while.
7) What would you do if you signed a lucrative contract with Nike?
8) How do dictators try to subjugate people?
9) What is the most tantalizing food there is?
10) How did Know-it-All Noah sully his reputation?
Unit 3
abridge, adherent, altercation, cherubic, condone, dissent, eminent, exorcise, fabricate, irate, marauder, obesity, pauper, pilfer, rift, semblance, surmount, terminate, trite, usurp
1) How might you abridge The Color of Water?
2) What caused the altercation at the hot dog stand?
3) Fabricate story as to why you didn't finish your homework.
4) What's a trite way to say goodbye to someone?
5) Do you bear a semblance to anyone famous?
6) What could close the rift between Democrats and Republicans?
7) Can you name three famous paupers?
8) role play a situation where a small woodland creature has made you irate.
9) Whose wardrobe would you like to pilfer and why?
10) what word means the opposite of surmount?
1) What does "adherent" have in common with the word "adhesive"?
2) Who is the most cherubic child actor you know of?
3) Under what circumstances might someone condone cheating?
4) What is a common way that dictators deal with dissent?
5) How is "usurping" a kind of theft?
6) If a person exorcises their personal demons, who will be more tired, the person or the demons?
7) Can you name two eminent scientists that you may have studied?
8) Would you rather quit a job or be terminated?
9) After you leave your job and become a marauder, what cool name will you use?
10) Why do a lot of medical professionals think of obesity as a disease?
Unit 4 abscond, access, anarchy, arduous, auspicious, biased, daunt, disentangle, fated, hoodwink, inanimate, incinerate, intrepid, larceny, pliant, pompous, precipice, rectify, reprieve, revile,
What did you do to the artwork you absconded with?
What must one do to access a secret society?
Why is anarchy attractive to some people?
What is the most arduous aspect of this class?
Is Romeo's fate auspicious or inauspicious?
How could you tell that a referee in a basketball game was biased for the home team?
On what holiday are some children daunted? Why?
Why might you need to disentangle yourself from another person?
In what scene in Romeo and Juliet is it clear that the lovers are fated to tragedy?
Give two ways you might hoodwink your parents.
Name three inanimate objects that people often talk to.
Name two things that are sometimes incinerated.
Why might one name a battleship "Intrepid?"
Name two synonyms for some who commits larceny.
Would you rather be pliant or flexible? Explain the difference.
Name two pompous characters on tv.
Explain this metaphor: My academic career was perched atop a precipice.
You fail a quiz. How might you rectify the situation?
Why might a judge reprieve a first time criminal offender?
Who in the play does Tybalt revile?
Unit 5
Word Bank: accomplice, annihilate, arbitrary, brazen, catalyst, exodus, facilitate, incorrigible, latent, militant, morose, opaque, paramount, prattle, rebut, reprimand, servitude, slapdash, stagnant, succumb
Under what circumstances would you be an accomplice to a crime?
"Nihil" means "Nothing" in Latin. How does that relate to the word "annihilate?"
Why is arbitrary violence the most horrible kind of violence there is?
He is the most brazen musician out there?
Am I being literal or figurative when I say that a good book is a catalyst for a good English class?
What caused an exodus from the cafeteria?
How might you facilitate a meeting between your parents and you English teacher?
What is an antonym for incorrigible?
How does latent anger sometimes get revealed?
Do you approve of militant activism?
Why was Myron morose at the Maroon 5 concert?
Finish this sentence, "Motivation is paramount to...."
What makes an argument opaque?
What is a nicer way to say "prattle?"
How did Atticus rebut Mr. Gilmer's conclusion in the trial?
Is a reprimand a form of punishment?
Could you argue that many African Americans were still enduring a form of servitude in the 1930's? How about today?
When is it okay to do something in a slapdash manner?
Where can one find stagnant water?
Do you think I will succumb to the heat in this classroom before the end of the year?
Unit 6 Word Bank: atone, bondage, credible, defray, diligent, doleful, ghastly, hamper, hew, impoverished, incessant, intricate, lucid, posthumous, prim, sardonic, superfluous, supplant, taunt, tenacious.
How might a dog atone for stealing a bone?
How did some slaves escape from bondage?
What made Steve's claim that he was abducted by aliens seem credible?
How can a homeowner defray the cost of a new heating system?
What is an antonym for diligent?
How can a doughnut make someone doleful?
How is the most ghastly looking movie character ever?
Name two things that could hamper you in your effort to get into college.
What tool do you use to hew a log?
What led to Steve's having an impoverished spirit?
What caused the incessant noise in the back of the classroom?
Name a movie with a very intricate plot?
What made Lucy so lucid?
Name an artist who became more famous posthumously.
Why wouldn't prim Peter dance at the prom?
What kind of facial hair would you expect to find on a sardonic character/
Which NFL team supplanted the Patriots as champions?
Name an animal that is known to taunt people?
What is the most tenacious animal you have ever seen in person?
Unit 7
Word Bank: adieu, advent, apex, assimilate, bogus, exorbitant, interim, inundate, malign, meander, metropolis, momentous, obstreperous, pensive, perilous, shoddy, sprightly, surly, tirade, vagrant
Make a polite gesture that you'd make when you bid someone adieu.
Name two ways the world has changed since the advent of the smart phone.
How do you know when you've reached the apex of a mountain?
Can a person assimilate in our culture without learning English?
How can you tell if a dollar bill is bogus?
What is a exorbitant price to pay for a lawn mower?
If I told you you would win a million dollars in a month, what would you do in the interim?
At what time of year do you feel most inundated with work?
Under what conditions is it okay for a political candidate to malign an opponent?
Can a river meander?
Does a metropolis need a subway?
What was the most momentous moment in sports history?
Name an animal that is know for being obstreperous.
Make a pensive expression and hold it for ten seconds.
What was the most perilous monster Odysseus met?
How do you know if a building's construction in shoddy?
Why might you describe Ruth from The Color of Water as sprightly?
And when might you call her surly?
How long do Mr. Ruderman's tirades usually last?
What can a teacher do to capture the vagrant attention of his students?
Unit 8
Word Bank:
Unit 9
Word Bank:
Unit 10
Adept, aspire, bleak, chide, despicable, diminutive, emancipate, erroneous, exploit, extemporaneous, impair, invincible, languid, mire, obtrusive, preamble, render, rugged, skeptical, slipshod.
1. Jack’s behavior at the fire.
2. What Simon would like to do to the littuns.
3. What Jack does with fear, in regard to the younger kids.
4. Where one might get stuck.
5. A term describing the construction of the dwellings.
6. Jack launched into his speech without any ______________.
7. At headstands Ralph proved himself quite ______________.
8. Midday, when it’s hot is the most ____________ time of day.
9. The rash decision to put lots of fuel into the fire was _______________.
10. The boys’ prospects of being rescued often look _______________.