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INVISIBLE MAN : VOCABULARY ASSIGNMENT

Directions: You will be responsible for preparing a short 2-minute mini-lesson on your words each of you will be required to RESEARCH the word online and/or using the Oxford English Dictionary. It is highly recommended that you bring something in that represents the word.

On the day you present your word, we will arrange the desks so that each student is facing someone else. After teaching each other your word, you will rotate until each of you has been introduced to each word. BE CREATIVE!!

1. Adjunct (129)2. Agrarian (290)3. Antiphonal 4. Antithesis (350)5. Brogue (459)6. Catharsis (92)7. Caul (176)8. Cauterize (394)9. Chauvinism (312)10. Chiffonier (271)11. Decorously (234)12. Discordantly (411)13. Enigmatic (411)14. Exhort (112)15. Extorter (365)16. Fastidious (25)17. Flounce (434)18. Fyce (288)19. Gimcrack (144)20. Guile (441)21. Halitosis (131)22. Hoary (131)

23. Intrinsic (273)24. Languid (25)25. Limpid (234)26. Livid (98)27. Moil (107)28. Nexus (110)29. Nijinsky (349)30. Opalescent (323)31. Organdy (234)32. Palaver (248)33. Perfidity (373)34. Perverse (431)35. Poignancy (417)36. Recant (265)37. Salvationist (410)38. Slough (164)39. Sorghum (234)40. Strumpet (373)41. Torpid (234)42. Vehemently (326)43. Vestibule (286)

DESKTOP TEACHING SAMPLE

LUNATICFROM LATIN: Lunaticus (luna = moon)

Dating back to the 13th century, a

lunatic was thought to be someone who

went insane depending on the

phases of the moon (possibly bi-polar

disorder).

Today “lunatic” is a synonym for “crazy.”

Interesting connected words: an Insane Asylum is commonly referred to as a Loony Bin. The word “loony” also comes from the Latin word “luna” although its connotation has been completely lost.

By the 17th century, a lunatic was either a foolish man or a madman