SWBAT use word parts roots prefixes suffixes to determine meaning of unfamiliar words VOCABULARY 125 RAPID FIRE AGENDA You have 30 seconds to determine who in your group is George Washington ID: 697804
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Vocab 12.5Slide2
SWBAT determine word meanings from context clues.SWBAT use word parts (roots, prefixes, suffixes) to determine meaning of unfamiliar words VOCABULARY 12.5 Slide3
RAPID FIRE AGENDASlide4
You have 30 seconds to determine who in your group is:George Washington John AdamsThomas JeffersonJames MadisonJames Monroe
Group AssignmentsSlide5
Assignments:Slide6
indigent
Part of Speech
Definition
Synonyms
Antonym
Special Usage
adjective
Experiencing want or need; impoverished
poor, poverty-stricken
rich, affluent, wealthy
indigently
adv.
indigence
n.the indigent, n.Slide7
CFU: Indigent
Do you agree that the poor rather than the rich should be responsible for making the rules of society? Why? Slide8
infringe
Part of Speech
Definition
Synonyms
Antonym
Special Usage
verb
To transgress or exceed the limits of; violate
encroach, impose, intrude, invade, transgress, trespass
Comply
obey
Infringement, infringer
nounSlide9
CFU: InfringeWhat is the most important right that people have that you feel the United States Government should NOT infringe upon? Why?Slide10
document
Part of Speech
Definition
Synonyms
Antonym
Special Usage
verb
To record in written, photographic or other form
Log, chronicle, reportSlide11
CFU: DocumentWhy is it essential to document the sources that you use in a research essay or report? Slide12
ostensible
Part of Speech
Definition
Synonyms
Antonym
Special Usage
adjective
Represented or appearing as such; evident
Apparent, pretended, professed, supposed, alleged
genuine, real, honest
ostensibly
adv
.Slide13
CFU: Ostensible
What
argument
is Teddy Roosevelt making about the perception of government versus the reality of government? Slide14
specious
Part of Speech
Definition
Synonyms
Antonym
Special Usage
adjective
Plausible, but not true; based on a sham
Deceptive, false, misleading
true, direct, honest
speciously
adv.
speciousness n.Slide15
CFU: SPECIOUSWhat might be a specious excuse you could tell for not completing your AP English homework?Slide16
‘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’. Slide17
copious
Part of Speech
Definition
Synonyms
Antonym
Special Usage
adjective
Large in quantity; abundant
ample, bountiful, plentiful
lacking, meager, scant, rare
copiously
adv.
copiousness n.Slide18
CFU: copiousWhat is something you would like to have a copious amount of? What is something you WOULD NOT like to have a copious amount of? Slide19
extraneous
Part of Speech
Definition
Synonyms
Antonym
Special Usage
adjective
Unessential or unrelated to the topic or matter at hand
irrelevant, needless, nonessential, peripheral, redundant, superfluous
essential, necessary, needed
extraneously
adv.
extraneousness n.Slide20
CFU: EXTRANEOUSWhat is one reason that you should avoid writing about extraneous details in a Timed Argument Essay?
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mundane
Part of Speech
Definition
Synonyms
Antonym
Special Usage
adjective
commonplace;
ordinary.
banal, unimaginative, everyday
extraordinary, unusual
mundanely
adv.
mundaneness mundanity n.Slide22
CFU: MundaneWhat is something that a teacher can do to keep class from becoming mundane?Slide23
progeny
Part of Speech
Definition
Synonyms
Antonym
Special Usage
noun
An offspring or a descendant. Offspring or descendants considered as a group.
breed, children, product, descendants, lineage
n.
pl.
progeny
progeniesSlide24
Cfu: progeny
What inference can you make about how Mary Shelley feels about her novel
Frankenstein
when she refers to it as her ‘hideous progeny’?Slide25
sonorous
Part of Speech
Definition
Synonyms
Antonym
Special Usage
adjective
Having or producing a full, deep, or rich sound.
grandiloquent, bass, booming, rich, resonant
quiet, mute, soft
sonorously
adv
.
sonorousness n.Slide26
CFU: sonorous Read the following quotation in a sonorous voice:
The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain. Slide27
Closing: low-stakes writing