Vocabulary Lesson 3
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council
The European Council is a group of people who
come together to make important decisions.
council
Mary Orr has a student council. It is a group of
students who meet to help make important
decisions for the school.
council
Part of speech: noun
 Definition: a group of people
who make important decisions
at meetings
Are there other ways to use the word,
or are there other forms of the word?
 Councilor
 Councils
accompany
Why do girls always
have to accompany
each other to the
bathroom? Are they
afraid they might need
extra help in there?
accompany
Part of speech: verb
 Definition: to go with
Are there other ways to use the word,
or are there other forms of the word?
 Accompanies
 Accompanying
segregate
Some private schools
segregate the boys
from the girls; in other
words, the boys and
girls go to school
separately.
segregate
Part of speech: verb
 Definition: to separate or keep
apart; to isolate
Are there other ways to use the word,
or are there other forms of the word?
• Segregation
• Segregating
• Segregated
horde
The mall is so
congested with
hordes of people on
the weekends that it’s
impossible to get any
shopping done.
horde
Part of speech: noun
 Definition: a big number of
something; a huge amount of
something
Are there other ways to use the word,
or are there other forms of the word?
• Hordes
• Don’t confuse HORDE with
HOARD (Hoard is to pack away
all your stuff and never get rid of
it, like that show about those
people who are hoarders
because they keep everything!)
fuse
Oops!
We’re now
fused
together.
fuse
Part of speech: verb
 Definition: blended together;
stuck together
Are there other ways to use the word,
or are there other forms of the word?
• Fused
• Fusion
• fusing
supplement
My parents make
me take vitamins
to supplement
what I eat every
day.
supplement
Part of speech: verb
 Definition: added to something
else
Are there other ways to use the word,
or are there other forms of the word?
• Supplements
• Supplemented
• supplementing
exclude
I felt so excluded
when I didn’t
get invited to
the slumber
party.
exclude
Part of speech: verb
 Definition: to leave out or to
keep out
Are there other ways to use the word,
or are there other forms of the word?
• Excluded
• Excluding
• Exclusive
swarm
A huge swarm of
locusts attacked the
village.
swarm
Part of speech: verb
Are there other ways to use the word,
or are there other forms of the word?
 Definition: to move in great
numbers
• Swarming
• swarmed
integrate
Our school is fully
integrated with boys
and girls from many
different countries
who speak various
languages.
integrate
Part of speech: verb
Are there other ways to use the word,
or are there other forms of the word?
 Definition: to include different
parts that will make a whole
• Integrated
• integration
majority
Study this
graph. What
do you know
about the
majority of
people based
on the data?
majority
Part of speech: noun
 Definition: the most, or more
than half
Are there other ways to use the word,
or are there other forms of the word?
Let’s practice using our new words!
Compare the words segregate and exclude.
How are integrate and fuse similar?
How could you use swarm and horde together
in a sentence?
Think of two vocabulary terms from this new
list that you might hear used in the news.
Look around the room where you are right
now. Find an example of something that has
been fused together.
When you have to go to the doctor, who
accompanies you a majority of the time?