1ST NINE WEEKS
DICTIONARY/VOCABULARY
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You are responsible for keeping up your dictionary/vocabulary for the Nine Weeks. It will be graded at the
end of the Nine Weeks.
Nine Weeks Academic VocabularyWrite a definition for each word in your own words. Use a definition that fits how it is used in the sentence in
the story. Then use the word in a sentence correctly. Make sure you look at the form of speech of the word. If
it is a noun use it as a noun in your sentence.
Academic Vocabulary for the 1st 9 Weeks
1. adapt (adaptable, adaptability, adaptation)
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2. coherent (cohere, coherence, coherently, cohesive)
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3. device (devise)
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4. displace (displaceable, displacement)
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5. dynamic (dynamics, dynamically, dynamism, dynamo)
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“Of Plymouth Plantation”
1. divers- adj.
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2. sundry- adj.
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3. succour-noun
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4. tender-verb
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5. rendezvous- noun
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6. sentinel- noun
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7. circulate-verb
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8. patent- noun
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“from The General History of Virginia”
1. pilfer- verb
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2. industry- noun
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3. interim- noun
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4. baseness-noun
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5. mollified- verb
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“Coming of Age in the Dawnland from 1491”
1. project-verb
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2. settlement- noun
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3. divergence- noun
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4. ferment- noun
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5. regimen- noun
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6. defection- noun
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7. stoically- adverb
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“The Tempest”
1. figurative language-noun
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2. personification- noun
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3. alliteration- noun
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4. assonance- noun
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5. metaphor- noun
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6. allusion- noun
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7. blank verse- noun
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“Balboa”
1. pristine- adj.
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2. supplant- verb
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3. protrude- verb
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4. provision- noun
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5. discord- noun
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6. distinction-noun
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7. cede- verb
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“Blaxicans” and Other Reinvented Americans
1. cull- verb
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2. factor- noun
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3. predominant- adjective
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4. ascendancy- noun
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5. denote- verb
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6. circumvent- verb
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“Mother Tongue”
1. belies- verb
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2. empirical- adjective
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3. guise- noun
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4. bland- adjective
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“New Orleans”
1. simile- noun
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2. theme: noun
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3. image- noun
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