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?