Literary Analysis and
Composition 2014-2015
Monday, December 1
Vocabulary 4.6, 4.7
Vocabulary 4.6, 4.7
• What is our lesson objective?
• What will I be able to do by the end of this lesson?
• I will be able to define and use words with Latin
roots.
Word Bank
• allude
• imbibe
• carnivorous
• mellifluous
• collusion
• potable
• concoct
• potion
• cuisine
• delusion
• elude
• herbivorous
• precocious
• saline
• voracious
Word Bank
• ablution
• dormant
• deluge
• investiture
• divest
• somnambulate
• domain
• somnolent
• domestic
• travesty
• domicile
• vested
• domineer
• vestment
• dominion
Let’s Practice!
• Choose the pair of words that correctly completes
the sentence.
• The brontosaurus, a ___________ dinosaur, was
hiding in the trees and was able to ________ me.
• A. herbivorous, elude
• B. herbivorous, allude
• C. carnivorous, elude
• D. carnivorous, allude
Let’s Practice!
• Choose the pair of words that correctly completes
the sentence.
• I was able to _________ a delicious beverage out of
orange juice and strawberries that was more than
_________.
• A. imbibe, potable
• B. imbibe, saline
• C. concoct, potable
• D. concoct, saline
Let’s Practice!
• Choose the pair of words that correctly completes
the sentence.
• My birthday party was a disaster; how dare you
_______ to that __________!
• A. elude, travesty
• B. allude, travesty
• C. allude, investiture
• D. elude, investiture
Let’s Practice!
• Choose the pair of words that correctly completes
the sentence.
• This Dreamless Sleep _________ is making me very
_________.
• A. collusion, precocious
• B. collusion, somnolent
• C. potion, precocious
• D. potion, somnolent
Let’s Practice!
• Choose the pair of words that correctly completes
the sentence.
• The young chefs on Masterchef Junior are quite
________ for being able to create such
fancy________ at such a young age.
• A. precocious, cuisine
• B. precocious, saline
• C. mellifluous, cuisine
• D. mellifluous, saline
Let’s Practice!
• Choose the pair of words that correctly completes
the sentence.
• The conspirators were in ________ to _______ me of
my bicycle
• A. ablution, divest
• B. collusion, divest
• C. collusion, somnambulate
• D. ablution, somnambulate
Let’s Practice!
• Choose the pair of words that correctly completes
the sentence.
• The lion, a ___________ mammal, has _________
over the continents of Africa and Asia.
• A. mellifluous, dominion
• B. mellifluous, domicile
• C. carnivorous, dominion
• D. carnivorous, domicile
Let’s Practice!
• Choose the pair of words that correctly completes
the sentence.
• When the seawall broke during the hurricane, a
______ of _______ water washed into the
condominiums.
• A. deluge, saline
• B. deluge, voracious
• C. ablution, saline
• D. ablution, voracious
Let’s Practice!
• Choose the pair of words that correctly completes
the sentence.
• Even though he couldn’t cook, sew on buttons, or
iron, the man had a _________ that heating pizza
in the microwave made him _________.
• A. delusion, voracious
• B. delusion, domestic
• C. ablution, voracious
• D. ablution, domestic
Let’s Practice!
• Choose the pair of words that correctly completes the
sentence.
• Bob had a __________ appetite for turkey on
Thanksgiving, but which lay ________ for the rest of
the year, which gave turkeys the chance to repopulate
before the next Thanksgiving.
• A. herbivorous, dormant
• B. herbivorous, somnolent
• C. voracious, dormant
• D. voracious, somnolent
Let’s Practice!
• Choose the pair of words that correctly completes
the sentence.
• I ________ myself in my Ewok costume and left my
_______ for the convention center.
• A. investiture, domicile
• B. vested, domicile
• C. vested, domain
• D. investiture, domain
Let’s Practice!
• Choose the pair of words that correctly completes
the sentence.
• I choose not to ________ that cough medicine,
because it makes me ____________, and I don’t like
waking up in different parts of the house.
• A. ablution, somnambulate
• B. ablution, herbivorous
• C. imbibe, somnambulate
• D. imbibe, herbivorous
Let’s Practice!
• Choose the pair of words that correctly completes
the sentence.
• Once he puts on his _________ and steps behind
the pulpit, the preacher’s _________ voice soothes
the congregation.
• A. vestment, carnivorous
• B. vestment, mellifluous
• C. collusion, carnivorous
• D. collusion, mellifluous
Let’s Practice!
• Choose the pair of words that correctly completes
the sentence.
• After the ________ ceremony, Sir Lancelot became
a Knight of the Round Table, and needed to defend
his ________.
• A. vested, domain
• B. vested, domineer
• C. investiture, domain
• D. investiture, domineer
Let’s Practice!
• Choose the pair of words that correctly completes the
sentence.
• The headmistress of the boarding school liked to
_______ over the students as she supervised them
(washing their faces) performing their morning
_________.
• A. domineer, ablution
• B. domineer, deluge
• C. somnambulate, ablution
• D. somnambulate, deluge