Links (in blue) to Vocab Unit Quizlets:
Unit #1 Words Approbation Assuage Coalition Decadence Elicit Expostulate Hackneyed Hiatus Innuendo Intercede Unit #2 Words- thanks Lucas! Jaded Lurid Meritorious Petulant Prerogative Provincial Simulate Umbrage Unctuous Transcend Unit #3 Words Ameliorate Aplomb Bombastic Callow Drivel Epitome Exhort Ex Officio Infringe Ingratiate Unit #4 Words - thanks Preston! Interloper Intrinsic Inveigh Lassitude Millenium Occult Permeate Precipitate Stringent Surmise Unit #5 Words- thanks Bryce! Abominate Acculturation Adventitious Ascribe Circuitous Commiserate Enjoin Expedite Expiate Ferment Unit #6 Words- thanks Preston! Inadvertent Nominal Noncommittal Peculate Proclivity Sangfroid Seditious Tenuous Vitriolic Wheedle Unit #7 Words (20 of them)- thanks Preston! Affable.....etc. |
Additional Study Tools:
Mnemonic Dictionary- a resource for fun ways to remember words (thanks Jack Harris!) Word of the Day- also from the Mnemonic Dictionary website Oxford English Dictionary- "the definitive record of the English language" |
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“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
“Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.”
― Gilles Deleuze
“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.”
― John Greenleaf Whittier, Maud Muller – Pamphlet
“A word is dead when it's been said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.”
― Emily Dickinson
“Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.”
― Socrates
“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
“Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.”
― Gilles Deleuze
“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.”
― John Greenleaf Whittier, Maud Muller – Pamphlet
“A word is dead when it's been said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.”
― Emily Dickinson
“Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.”
― Socrates