Welcome to Unit 10!

Here we are...Unit 10.  Just think that after this section you will only have five more sections of fun and excitement contained within this book of knowledge and wisdom.  If you have already made the effort to study the first nine sections of vocab in this book that you have to just keep going at this point.  In all seriousness however, there's a lot of fun and cool activities for you to do right here on this blog so we hope you enjoy!

Each section will start off with the correct pronunciation of  the word which will be broken into parts to help you sound it out.  Immediately following there will be an extremely helpful trick or tip that will help engrave the word into your mind so that you can recall it for the rest of your lifetime.  Some of the ways to remember the word may be a little bit of a stretch but work with us a little bit and you never know, maybe our quirky trick will just work for you.

If you haven't already experienced them by now, you will right here.  What are we talking about?  Semantic Differential Scales (SDS).  What you will do is read the scenario that we have set up for you and then you will use previous knowledge as well as the captions provided to aide you in the process.  You will see a scale in which there are two words or phrases that belong at opposite sides of the spectrum and it is your job to mark off from 1 to 7 where you stand with your thoughts and opinions.  You will also have a space provided to explain why you chose the number that you did and to defend your answer.

Along the way you may also find yourself answering some short questions or prompts that were created to guide your thinking as you learn the particular vocab word.  Feel free to use the text boxes at your will (although they may not save your writing) and use the space to quickly respond and share with a friend.  You may also be doing some analyzing as you look at images or videos that have to do with the word you are studying.  Some answers may be more obvious than others  but do your best to try and figure out the meaning of the word.

At the end of every section there are synonyms/antonyms for the particular word as well a section to guess the correct definition of the word that you have been learning.  Hopefully your mind has been thinking about the definition and meaning of the word along the way and this last part is a breeze.  You can find the answers to the definition question in a separate post towards the end of the blog.

If you look to the very end of the blog you will find a multitude of games, puzzles, and activities that you can peruse at your own time for a little review and practice as the final test approaches.  So study as long as you want and enjoy these twenty fascinating vocab words.

List of words

Acumen

Adjudicate

Anachronism

Apocryphal

Disparity

Dissimulate

Empirical

Flamboyant

Fulsome

Immolate

Imperceptible

Lackey

Liaison

Monolithic

Mot juste

Nihilism

Patrician

Propitiate

Sic

Sublimate