vocabulary week 1 -4
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Vocabulary Week 1 -4. ABDICATE. What are ways people in 2013 abdicate responsibility? How do you abdicate responsibility?. ABHOR. Who do you abhor more? Why?. ABRASION. SANDPAPER. Which is more abrasive? Why? What’s the most abrasive thing you have ever encountered?. ABSCOND. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Vocabulary Week 1-4
ABDICATE
What are ways people in 2013 abdicate responsibility?How do you abdicate responsibility?
ABHOR
Who do you abhor more? Why?
ABRASION
Which is more abrasive? Why?What’s the most abrasive thing you have ever
encountered?
SANDPAPER
ABSCOND
What is the man absconding from?When have you wished you could abscond?
ABSOLVE
What is the best way to be absolved from something you did wrong?
AVERSE
Which do you have a bigger aversion to?
AVOCATION
Which of these is not an avocation? Why?What avocations do you have?
ADHERENT
Which is more adherent? Why?What beliefs/rules do you adhere to?
ADVENT
What does each picture mark the advent of?
ADVERSE
Who is the adversary of the person in the picture?Do you have any adversaries?
ANTECEDENTS
Think of your antecedents. What characteristics do you still have from them?
What traditions did your antecedents pass on to you?How is antecedent used grammatically?
POSTMORTEM
What do postmortems reveal to us?When might a hospital perform a postmortem?
BIPARTISAN
Which is a more productive way of making decisions – with a partisan or bipartisan committee?
BISECT
When do you need to bisect something in real life?
SEMICONSCIOUS
What is the difference between semiconscious and unconscious?
When have you felt semi-conscious?
Impunity
In which case should a mistake be treated with impunity?
Incessant
Is there any case when incessant nagging gets results?
When have you ever been treated inhospitably? What did you do?
Inhospitable
Has anyone in your life ever made an irrevocable decision in which you completely disagreed?
Irrevocable
What are some things that celebrities do when they start to become irrelevant?
Irrelevant
EMINENT
Which of the above people would you consider to be most eminent?
IMMINENT
What is imminent as a result of these pictures?
INCISE
Which tool(s) would be better for incising?
INHIBIT
Which of the above people appear to be inhibited?Which ones appear to be uninhibited?
IMPLICATE
When have you been implicated for something?
IMPUGN
Who have you impugned?When have you impugned someone else?
EXTRANEOUS
Which of the above is most extraneous?
INTRAVENOUS
Sometimes medicine or fluids are delivered intravenously.
CONTRABAND
Where are each of the following items considered to be contraband?
CONTRAVENE
When do you contravene things that you are told to do?
INCONTROVERTIBLE
What kinds of things are incontrovertible?
INTERCEDE
When have you interceded for someone, or had someone intercede for you?
INTERCEPT
When do interceptions tend to happen?
INTERLUDE
What kinds of interludes have you heard of? When do they occur?
INTERMEDIARY
In what situations have you acted as an intermediary? With your friends? With your family?
Would you rather be stranded on a desert island with a benefactor or malefactor?
Benefactor and Malefactor
When was the last time you performed a benevolent deed?
Benevolent
What is the best way to avoid malnutrition?
Malnutrition
Deviate
Fido and Tom like to deviate from the norm.
What are some issues that cause a home to depreciate in value?
Depreciate
Dis- “Opposite of,” “differently,” “apart,” “away”
Dis (opposite of) + content (satisfied)= discontent (dissatisfied)
Latin Prefixes
Does it make sense to demolish all buildings in disrepair? Why or why not?
Disrepair
When in life is it important to be dispassionate?
Dispassionate
I may have to secede from Team Edward and move to Team Jacob.
Secede
Where is the most secluded place in your house?
Seclude
CIRCUMLOCUTION
FIRST: Find a way to use circumlocution to tell Kermit the frog that he might be a puppet.
SECOND: When do politicians use circumlocution? When do you?
CIRCUMSPECT
When is circumspection absolutely necessary? Why?
COALESCE
When have you needed to be coalescent?
COLLUSION
Collusion is usually associated with criminal activity. When have you ever acted in collusion for non-criminal reasons?
OBLITERATE
What sort of things must we obliterate in order to achieve our dreams?
OBSTRUCT
How are the above items an obstruction?
PERENNIAL
Which of these is a perennial favorite?
PERMEATE
How can these things permeate a room?
PERTINENT
If you are making an argument about the success of the Red Sox, which information is most pertinent?
PERTURB
What perturbs you most?
PRECLUDE
What could preclude you from getting a good grade on a project?
PRECOCIOUS
Have you ever met a precocious child? What did he or she excel at?
PRESUME
When have you made a presumption that turned out to be incorrect?
What are the other forms of the word “presume”?
PROFUSE
When is it good for something to be profuse? When is it negative?
PROTRUDE
Which land mass protrudes most from the United States?