Studies of English
Name ______________________________
Period _________
Vocabulary Words
Vocabulary Word Necessary Information:
1.
Definition of the word
2.
Write the sentence from the story which contains the vocabulary word. Put the
sentence in “quotes” and underline the vocabulary word.
3.
Put in the vocabulary word in your own sentence. Underline the word.
4.
Write a synonym for the word. (same meaning)
5.
Write an antonym for the word. (opposite meaning)
Sample for vocabulary word cessation:
1.
stopping, either forever or for some time
2.
“And then the music ceased, as I have told; and the evolutions of the waltzers
were quieted; and there was an uneasy cessation of all things as before.”
3.
The cessation of the testing of the laboratory rats was sensible.
4.
pause – synonym
5.
ongoing - antonym
“Blues Ain’t no
Mockin Bird” p. 570
“The Most Dangerous
Game” p. 18
“The Necklace” p. 608
lassoed
formality
pallid
vanquished
fetid
impassive
disconsolately
unrequited
palpable
indolently
bizarre
naïve
scruples
blandly
grotesque
futile
declassee
rueful
resplendent
disheveled
profoundly
“The Cask of
Amontillado” p. 6
“The Interlopers”
p. 304
precipitous
marauders
medley
condolences
languor
succor
“The Scarlet Ibis”
p. 554
imminent
iridescent
vortex
infallibility
entrails
precariously
evanesced
precluded
retribution
accosted
afflicted
explicit
recoiling
termination
subsided
Studies of English
Name ______________________________
Period _________
“The Invalid’s Story”
p. 596
prodigious
deleterious
ominous
judicious
placidly
desultory
“The Secret Life of
Walter Mitty”
p. 346
rakishly
hurtling
distraught
haggard
insolent
insinuatingly
cur
derisive
inscrutable