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...