Name: _____________________________________ Date:_________________ Period: __________________
Vocabulary and Sentence Construction Practice #3
DIRECTIONS: Use your blue syntax notes and your vocabulary
definitions to help you complete this assignment. The purpose of
this assignment is twofold: first, to practice constructing
different types of sentences, and second, to learn the definitions
of your current vocabulary words.
NOTE: You may change the part of speech of any given word to
make it fit in your sentence, but make sure that the changed
word is actually a word. For example, if you want to change
the adjective benevolent into a noun, make sure you use the
correct noun, benevolence, and not a made up word like
benevolation. 
NOTE: If your sentences are not complete and correctly punctuated,
you will not receive full credit for the work.
1) Write a meaningful simple sentence using the word swagger.
2) Write a meaningful compound sentence using the word obstinate and the coordinating
conjunction yet.
3) Write a meaningful compound sentence using the word transparent and the coordinating
conjunction so.
4) Write a meaningful compound sentence using the word inveterate and the conjunctive adverb
indeed. If you do not punctuate this sentence correctly, you will not receive credit for the
question.
5) Write a meaningful complex sentence using the word fulminate and the subordinating conjunction
although.
6) Write a meaningful complex sentence using the word contradiction and the subordinating
conjunction because.
7) Write a meaningful complex sentence using the word rhapsody and the subordinating conjunction
until.
8) Write a meaningful compound-complex sentence using the word contumacious, the subordinating
conjunction while, and the coordinating conjunction but.
9) Do you think your personality could be most accurately described as articulate, inquisitive,
punctilious, or stolid? Explain your answer in complete sentences.
10)What is a tradition or behavior that you believe to be archaic? Explain your answer in a complete
sentence.
11) Consider the four images of famous robots below. Which one is Odd One Out? (In other words,
which toy does not fit with the other three?) Circle your choice, and then write an assertion
defending your choice. Consider the type of sentence that will best fit your assertion.
My assertion:
12) Here’s the scene: You find yourself, suddenly and inexplicably, alone in the deep jungle, with only
a water bottle, two matches, and a pack of chewing gum. You struggle through the underbrush,
pushing forward until you are confronted with a giant stone wall. The wall stretches as high as you
can see, and as far to the left and to the right as you can see. There is no way around or over. The
outline of a door can barely be made out, but there seems to be no way to open it. The wall is
seemingly impenetrable. Write a short narrative, explaining your next move. Include details that
involve all five senses, and explain your emotions throughout. Impress me by using a vocabulary
word correctly somewhere in your description.
13) Is it ever acceptable to harbor enmity toward someone else? Explain your answer in complete
sentences.
14) Explain, in a complete sentence, a situation that would enervate you.
15) Draw a picture of a woman of great stature standing next to a man of lesser stature.
16)Write a list of three songs or pieces of music that have the power to lull you to sleep.
17) Are you often the arbiter among your friends? Explain your role in your friend group, in a
complete sentence.
18) Draw a diagram of a hierarchical system that occurs in the natural world. HINT: Consider the
hierarchies you studied in biology and earlier sciences.
19)Describe in detail your plan of action in the case of a conflagration occurring inside WHS.
20)Using Internet resources, learn more about a person (any person) who was imprisoned and later
vindicated. Offer the following details in complete sentences: 1) the person’s name and nationality;
2) the crime of which the person was accused; 3) the circumstances of the person’s vindication