English 11CP
2015-2016
Vocabulary – Week 1
Academic Vocabulary -I will provide definitions for these terms throughout the week. Make sure to
copy them into your Glossary (at the back of your composition book).
Annotate (v.) – to mark a text while reading in order to make comprehension, conversation,
critique, and analysis easier and more effective
Summarize (v.) – to state the main idea and major supporting points of an entire text in one or
two sentences
Paraphrase (v.) – to rephrase a short section of text in one’s own words
Reading Vocabulary
-As you complete the week’s reading, make sure to notice these words in
context and copy them in to your Glossary (at the back of your composition book).
The entry should include (1) the word, (2) the part of speech, (3) the definition (choose the one that
makes sense with the reading), and (4) the sentence or phrase that it appears in (its context).
Perennially
Hyperbolically
Conventional
Emancipate
Confer
Scarcity
Cloister
Clarity
Rural
Cognition
Asceticism
Hermitage
Vilify
Denigrate
Decry
Indigenous