Name: _________________________________________________ Date: _________________ Period: _____________
VOCABULARY AND SENTENCE CONSTRUCTION PRACTICE #2
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 abdicate.
2) Write a meaningful compound sentence using the word surreptitious and the coordinating
conjunction yet.
3) Write a meaningful compound sentence using the word compliant and the coordinating
conjunction so.
4) Write a meaningful compound sentence using the word wary and the conjunctive adverb indeed.
(Make sure that you punctuate this type of compound sentence correctly.)
5) Write a meaningful complex sentence using the word biased and the subordinating conjunction
because.
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6) Write a meaningful complex sentence using the word lament and the subordinating conjunction
although.
7) Write a meaningful complex sentence using the word incongruous and the subordinating
conjunction before.
8) Write a meaningful compound-complex sentence using the word farce, the coordinating
conjunction yet, and the subordinating conjunction because.
9) Which of the following vocabulary words is the odd one out? (In other words, which word doesn’t
fit in the list with the other three?) Circle your choice. Then, write one sentence defending your
choice. (Consider the type of sentence that best suits your defense.)
AUSTERE
HAUGHTY
BRASH
DRACONIAN
Defense:
10) Consider: Some argue that many new technological advances such as Google Glass (technocharged glasses that allow the wearer to “interact” with the world around them) and the
AromaFork (a strange fork that allows the user to add new and unusual smells to their normal
food) are superfluous. Write a one-sentence assertion in which you take a position on the
superfluity of new tech gadgets.
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11) Should politicians vilify their opponents in the pursuit to win an office? Write a sentence asserting
your opinion on the matter. (Do NOT start your sentence with yes or no.)
12) Describe, in complete sentences, a time when you vacillated about an important decision.
13) If you were omnipotent for one hour, what would you do? Answer in complete sentences.
14) Would you rather be gifted with adroitness or benevolence? Defend your choice in complete
sentences.
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15) Consider the four logos below. Which one is Odd One Out? (In other words, which logo 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.
Defense:
16) What mollifies you after an extremely stressful day? Answer in complete sentences.
17) Draw something that is evanescent.
18) Draw a prodigious animal next to a mouse. ☺
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19) Visit the following website: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/shakespeare/fourhumors.html
OR Google “Shakespeake four humours.” It will take you to the same website. Read a little bit
about the Four Humors, learning how physicians of the time period explained illnesses and
personality quirks using this theory of the Humors. You will notice that one of the Four Humors is
Sanguine, which also happens to be one of your vocabulary words. After reading, explain how a
word that originally meant “blood” now means cheerful and optimistic.
20) As you walk through the woods, a chilly wind creeps through the trees and settles on your skin.
While you shiver, an itinerant man approaches you. He carries all of his belongings in a giant pack
on his back, and in his hand, he is concealing a small object.
Continue the story, using descriptive details that involve all five senses, and using emotional
details that allow the reader to understand your state of mind.