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Vocabulary Week 3: Essential Words and Adverbs for Academic Success

This vocabulary list includes essential words for your academic journey. It features key terms such as "collegiate," "prosecute," and "gritty," providing definitions and context for each. Additionally, we cover the crucial role of adverbs in modifying verbs and adjectives, helping to clarify meaning in sentences. Use this list to enhance your understanding of language and improve your writing skills. Don’t forget to complete the adverb worksheet and prepare for the upcoming quiz to test your retention of these important vocabulary words.

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Vocabulary Week 3: Essential Words and Adverbs for Academic Success

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  1. Vocab Week 3 Ms. Burton

  2. Warm-Up

  3. Vocabulary List 3 • Collegiate (Adjective) – Relating to a college or its students. • Prosecute (Verb) – Institute legal proceedings against. • Gritty (Adjective)- Hardy or resolute. • Appall (Verb)- Greatly dismay or horrify. • Forge (Verb)- To advance steadily.

  4. Vocabulary List 3 • Mourning (Noun)- The expression of deep sorrow for someone who has died. • Impromptu (Adjective)- Done without being planned. • Discharge (Verb)- Tell someone officially that they can or must leave. • Accessory (Noun)- Someone who gives assistance to the perpetrator of a crime. • Convict (Noun)- A person found guilty of a criminal offense.

  5. Vocabulary List 3

  6. Adverbs • An adverb modifies a verb, an adjective, another adverb, a phrase, or a clause. • An adverb indicates manner, time, place, cause, or degree. • Manner: She quickly made the dress. • Time: She made the dress yesterday. • Place: The dress is here. • Cause: I wear sunglasses to look cool. • Degree: That is the farthest I have ever jumped.

  7. Adverbs • Adverbs answer the questions “How” “where” “when” and “how much” • How did you speak? • Where did you shop? • When did you do eat? • How much did you spend?

  8. Adverbs • For each verb or adjective, use an adverb to modify it: • Accelerate • Expand • Soar • Urge • Tackle • Beautiful • Weep • Rap • Dance • Levitate • Float • Gritty • Appalling

  9. Adverbs • Choose five of the words, and write a sentence using your adverb. • For example: • I aggressively tackled the other football players. • Beyonce is incredibly beautiful. • Miley Cyrus danced disgustingly at the MTV VMAs.

  10. Adverbs • Homework: • Adverb worksheet dueWednesday. • Quiz on Vocabulary and Adverbs on Friday.

  11. Symbol Share • State what your symbol is, and how it symbolizes you, your culture, or our society.

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