Vocabulary for Week of 1/4
Due Next Class Period: Look up
definitions at learnersdictionary.com and
write them IN YOUR NOTEBOOK!
Due Period after that: Copy and finish the Show Me You Know
Sentences in your notebook.
Optional for Extra Credit: By Test Day, review the definitions,
and use each word in a sentence of your own. Show them to me Friday for extra
credit.
1. surfeit 2. metamorphosis 3. transfixed 4.
scapegoat 5. begrudge 6. idiosyncrasy 7.
instill 8. optimistic 9. pessimistic 10.
colloquial 11. phenomenon
Show
Me You Know Sentences. (Due Wednesday. In your notebook.)
There was a surfeit of... It went through a metamorphosis...
We were transfixed... She used
her brother as a scapegoat... The
teacher begrudgingly...
I have an idiosyncrasy... The
coach tried to instill in
us... She is optimistic...(No
glass half full sentences.) He is
pessimistic...(No glass half
empty sentences.)
He likes to use the colloquial expression...
It was a strange phenomenon...