Vocabulary Remediation Activity

Vocabulary Remediation ActivityDirections: If you missed 5 or more vocabulary questions on the test, please complete the following activity on notebook paper and turn it in. If you missed 4 or fewer vocabulary questions, please write I missed 4 or fewer questions on the test on your notebook paper and turn it in. When finished, you may continue working on reading/annotating/vocabulary/questions for Chapters 6-7.

For each word on the list below, use a dictionary to write the following:1. the word and underline it.

2. the part of speech (noun, adjective, adverb, etc.)3. the word etymology (language of origin, word from that language where it came from)4. other forms of the word (with different suffixes, without a suffix if it already has one) 5. the sentence from the novel containing the word, in quotations, with citation6. a brief definition of the word as it is used in the novel, in your own wordsYour definition should NOT:

Contain words that are another form of the word you are defining

(Ex. When defining perserverence, dont write to perservere)

Contain any words you do not understand or cannot pronounce!!! Definitions should be simple and easy to understand.

7. synonyms of the word8. a sentence you create using the word (any form of the word). Write a sentence you can relate to.Example:

1. imperiously (adjective)origin Latin imperium

other forms: imperious, imperiousness

Among the terriers he stalked imperiously, and Toots and Ysabel he utterly ignored, for he was king king over all creeping, crawling, flying, things of Judge Millers place, humans included (London 3).Definition: domineering in an arrogant way

Synonyms: tyrannical, overbearing, commanding While Mr. Kissner certainly knew his stuff, his imperious attitude and superior manner turned off a lot of students.

Word List

morose

ferine

conciliatedsated

brumal

reproofdin

discomfiture

impendingmarauders

prostrate

insubordinationswarthy

weazened

deftunwonted

primordial

instinctsdubiously

malingerer

precipitateuncouth

solidarity

placatingly