Vocabulary Workshop
Unit 2
NUNC/NOUNC “to announce”
• Enunciate: verb
– To pronounce or articulate
• The speaker at graduation enunciated each student’s
name correctly.
• Renounce: verb
– To reject by declaration
• The defendant renounced the judge’s guilty verdict.
• Pronouncement: noun
– An official announcement
• Woodbridge Township made a pronouncement that
bullying will not be tolerated.
VOC/VOK “to call”
• Invoke: verb
– To call on for support
• Eli Manning invoked Coach Coughlin for help on
offensive plays.
• Provocative: adjective
– Causing disturbance or excitement
• The provocative commercial for the new Ford Mustang
was pulled from television.
• Revoke: verb
– To make invalid; deactivate
• If you get too many points while driving, your license
will be revoked.
FA “to speak”
• Ineffable: adjective
– Indescribable
• The landscape on top of the mountain was ineffable,
too beautiful for words.
• Infantile: adjective
– Childish; immature
• The rude behavior between the two boys was
infantile and immature.
• Affable: adjective
– Easy to converse with; friendly
• Sandy Cheeks is an affable character.
DIC/DICT “to say, to tell”
• Edict: Noun
– An official order
• The mayor ordered an edict to help Hurricane Irene
victims whose homes flooded.
• Indict: Verb
– To charge with a crime; accuse
• The criminal was indicted on three counts of
burglary.
• Dictum: noun
– A formal or authoritative statement
• Congress declared a dictum on the status of the war
in Afghanistan.
Conjunctions
• A word that joins two parts of a
sentence
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and
but
or
nor
for
yet
so
although
because
since
unless
Correlative Conjunctions
Correlative conjunctions are tag-team conjunctions.
They come in pairs, and you have to use both of them
in different places in a sentence to make them work.
• both/and Ex: I’ll have both the cheesecake and the frozen hot chocolate.
• whether/or Ex: I didn’t know whether you’d want the cheesecake or the
frozen hot chocolate, so I got you both.
• either/or Ex: I want either the cheesecake or the frozen hot chocolate.
• neither/nor Ex: Oh, you want neither the cheesecake nor the frozen hot
chocolate? No problem.
• not/but not
only/but also Ex: I see you’re in the mood not for
dessert but appetizers. Ex: I’ll eat them both - not only the cheesecake but
also the frozen hot chocolate.