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Vocabulary Week 1 -4

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. SANDPAPER. Which is more abrasive? Why? What’s the most abrasive thing you have ever encountered?. ABSCOND.

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Vocabulary Week 1 -4

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  1. Vocabulary Week 1-4

  2. ABDICATE What are ways people in 2013 abdicate responsibility? How do you abdicate responsibility?

  3. ABHOR Who do you abhor more? Why?

  4. ABRASION SANDPAPER Which is more abrasive? Why? What’s the most abrasive thing you have ever encountered?

  5. ABSCOND What is the man absconding from? When have you wished you could abscond?

  6. ABSOLVE What is the best way to be absolved from something you did wrong?

  7. AVERSE Which do you have a bigger aversion to?

  8. AVOCATION Which of these is not an avocation? Why? What avocations do you have?

  9. ADHERENT Which is more adherent? Why? What beliefs/rules do you adhere to?

  10. ADVENT What does each picture mark the advent of?

  11. ADVERSE Who is the adversary of the person in the picture? Do you have any adversaries?

  12. 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?

  13. POSTMORTEM What do postmortems reveal to us? When might a hospital perform a postmortem?

  14. BIPARTISAN Which is a more productive way of making decisions – with a partisan or bipartisan committee?

  15. BISECT When do you need to bisect something in real life?

  16. SEMICONSCIOUS What is the difference between semiconscious and unconscious? When have you felt semi-conscious?

  17. Impunity In which case should a mistake be treated with impunity?

  18. Incessant Is there any case when incessant nagging gets results?

  19. Inhospitable When have you ever been treated inhospitably? What did you do?

  20. Irrevocable Has anyone in your life ever made an irrevocable decision in which you completely disagreed?

  21. Irrelevant What are some things that celebrities do when they start to become irrelevant?

  22. EMINENT Which of the above people would you consider to be most eminent?

  23. IMMINENT What is imminent as a result of these pictures?

  24. INCISE Which tool(s) would be better for incising?

  25. INHIBIT Which of the above people appear to be inhibited? Which ones appear to be uninhibited?

  26. IMPLICATE When have you been implicated for something?

  27. IMPUGN Who have you impugned? When have you impugned someone else?

  28. EXTRANEOUS Which of the above is most extraneous?

  29. INTRAVENOUS Sometimes medicine or fluids are delivered intravenously.

  30. CONTRABAND Where are each of the following items considered to be contraband?

  31. CONTRAVENE When do you contravene things that you are told to do?

  32. INCONTROVERTIBLE What kinds of things are incontrovertible?

  33. INTERCEDE When have you interceded for someone, or had someone intercede for you?

  34. INTERCEPT When do interceptions tend to happen?

  35. INTERLUDE What kinds of interludes have you heard of? When do they occur?

  36. INTERMEDIARY In what situations have you acted as an intermediary? With your friends? With your family?

  37. Benefactor and Malefactor Would you rather be stranded on a desert island with a benefactor or malefactor?

  38. Benevolent When was the last time you performed a benevolent deed?

  39. Malnutrition What is the best way to avoid malnutrition?

  40. Deviate Fido and Tom like to deviate from the norm.

  41. Depreciate What are some issues that cause a home to depreciate in value?

  42. Latin Prefixes Dis- “Opposite of,” “differently,” “apart,” “away” Dis (opposite of) + content (satisfied)= discontent (dissatisfied)

  43. Disrepair Does it make sense to demolish all buildings in disrepair? Why or why not?

  44. Dispassionate When in life is it important to be dispassionate?

  45. Secede I may have to secede from Team Edward and move to Team Jacob.

  46. Seclude Where is the most secluded place in your house?

  47. 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?

  48. CIRCUMSPECT When is circumspection absolutely necessary? Why?

  49. COALESCE When have you needed to be coalescent?

  50. COLLUSION Collusion is usually associated with criminal activity. When have you ever acted in collusion for non-criminal reasons?

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