"A book, too, can be a star, 'explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly,' a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe." - from Madeleine L'Engle's Newberry Medal Acceptance Speech

Thursday, December 3, 2015

Vocabulary words for Upfront


Vocabulary Words from Upfront Magazine
Test on Tuesday December 8

Activity - choose 1 way to study:
1. Create flashcards on separate sheets of paper include word, definition, part of speech, and your own sentence, a mnemonic device, or labeled word parts.
2. Write in your notebook; make 4 columns: word, definition, part of speech, and your own sentence, a mnemonic device, or labeled word parts.


811
1.       Perplexed
2.       Divisive
3.       Ballooning
4.       Poaching
5.       Incentive (11)
6.       Enforce
7.       Annex
8.       Centrifuge (26)
9.       Embargo
10.   Anthropologist
11.   Trafficker
12.   Indigenous (7)
13.   Catastrophe
14.   Genocide
15.   Namibia (11)
16.   Rural
Add:
17.   Destabilized
18.   Extremist
805
1.       Begrudgingly (12)
2.       Opulent (8)
3.       Doctrine
4.       Bureaucracy (8)
5.       Conservation (11)
6.       Sectarian (12)
7.       Resurgence (12)
8.       Radical (12)
9.       Fatally (10)
10.   Poaching (11)
11.   Infrastructure (11)
12.   Sympathetic (12), sympathize (13)
13.   Vulnerable (11)
14.   Extradited (11)
Add:
15.   Incentive (11)
16.   Genocide (7)
17.   Destabilized (13)
18.   Extremist (13)
19.   Disillusioned (9)
807
1.       Opulent
2.       Bureaucracy
3.       Authoritarianism (17)
4.       Annexing (17)
5.       Perplexed
6.       Conservation
7.       Trickle
8.       Incentive
9.       Tasteless
10.   Extradited (11)
11.   Outraged
12.   Poachers
13.   Monetary
14.   Upheaval (17)
15.   Extremist
16.   Destabilized
17.   Collision
18.   Genocide

+ some of these spelling words will be on the test, too (know part of speech also):
unnecessary, noticeable, pneumonia, protein, psychology

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