VOCABULARY UNIT 5
12/01/15
DIRECTIONS
• Vocabulary Word
• Sentence Pattern: you will learn the different types of sentences you will
encounter in arguments.
• Create your sentences for the vocab words using that particular pattern.
• Take a picture of the next slide for your reference.
SENTENCE PATTERNS
• Complex: contains independent clause and one or more subordinate
clauses. EX: Since the honors 10th students were prepared, they did very well
on their exams.
• Compound: contains 2 independent clauses joined by a comma and a
coordinating conjunction. CC’s: FANBOYS (For And Nor But Or Yet So). EX:
The honors 10th students were prepared, so they did very well on their exams.
• Compound/Complex: contains 2+ independent clauses and 1+ subordinate
clauses. EX: Since they had read and studied, the honors 10th students were
prepared, so they did very well on their exams.
• Loose Sentence: reveals the key information right away and unfolds loosely
after that. EX: Due to snowy conditions, the principal announced an early
release, and students were jubilant, high-fiving, shouting about sleds and
video games, wishing the clock would go faster.
SENTENCE PATTERNS CONT.
• Periodic Sentence: main idea or most important information is not revealed
until the end of the sentence. EX: That morning, after a longer than normal
bus ride on icy roads, we made it safely to school.
• Balanced Sentence: similar to parallel structure, it features 2 similar elements
that balance each other (like on a teeter-totter). EX: The students reveled in
the snow day; the teachers reveled in the student-less day.
• Chiasmus: repetition and arrangement of 2 key terms in a sentence using
ABBA pattern. EX: Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you
can do for your country.
• Asyndeton: the omission of conjunctions in a series of related clauses. EX: I
came, I saw, I conquered.
SENTENCE PATTERNS CONT.
• Polysyndeton: opposite of asyndeton, the deliberate use of many
conjunctions for emphasis. EX: The movie was amazing—the acting and the
camera work and the soundtrack and the special effects. Wow!
• Anaphora: repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning
of successive sentences or lines. EX: We shall fight on the beaches, we shall
fight on the landing-grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we
shall fight in the hills—Churchill.
• Epistrophe: ending a series of lines, phrases, clauses, or sentences with the
same word or words. EX: What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny
compared to what lies within us—Emerson.
• Parallel Structure: refers to grammatical or structural similarity between
sentences or parts of a sentence. EX: She loved singing, dancing, and
acting.
UNIT 5
Sentence Pattern to Learn: Complex Sentence
1. Brazen
2. Compunction
3. Din
4. Edict
5. Indiscretion
6. Perquisites
7. Sepulcher
8. Suppliant
9. Tumult
10. Marauding
VOCABULARY UNIT 6
UNIT 6
Sentence Pattern to Learn: Compound Sentence
1. Admonish
2. Akimbo
3. Lassitude
4. Licentious
5. Muse (noun or verb)
6. Pecuniary
7. Plight
8. Presumptuous
9. Subversive
10. Vacuous
VOCABULARY UNIT 7
UNIT 7
Sentence Pattern to Learn: Compound-Complex Sentence
1. Avocation
2. Callous
3. Capricious
4. Disparity
5. Efficacy
6. Epistle
7. Hospice
8. Impetus
9. Moribund
10. Vacillate
VOCABULARY UNIT 8
UNIT 8
Sentence Pattern to Learn: Loose Sentence
1. Akin
2. Corroborate
3. Inexorable
4. Insipid
5. Nefarious
6. Physiognomy
7. Retinue
8. Suppliant
9. Tedium
10. Torrid
VOCABULARY UNIT 9
UNIT 9
Sentence Pattern to Learn: Periodic Sentence
1. Affront
2. Blasé
3. Cajole
4. Choleric
5. Encumber
6. Feckless
7. Impasse
8. Indolent
9. Lugubrious
10. Ribald
VOCABULARY UNIT 10
UNIT 10
Sentence Pattern to Learn: Balanced Sentence
1. Adulation
2. Censure
3. Dissemble
4. Dissimulation
5. Droll
6. Expectorate
7. Palpate
8. Peremptory
9. Pusillanimous
10. Surfeit