Ms. Conley: Spelling/Vocabulary 1-4-10

January 04, 2010

Spelling/Vocabulary due dates:

Alphetebize, syllables, parts of speech, accent marks, and sentences are due Wednesday, 1/6.

Words written three times paper is due Friday, 1/8.
Test is on Friday, 1/8.

1. requisite necessary, essential
2. diffused spread, extended, scattered; broken up and distributed (incident light) by reflection

3. affirmation the act of saying yes
4. ominous threatening, sinister, resembling an evil omen

5. feign pretend
6. entrails inner organs, intestines, guts
7. raffia a palm tree whose leaves yield a fiber used in making baskets, hats, etc.

8. harbingers persons or things that announce what will follow

9. plantains tropical banana plants whose coarse fruit is eaten cooked

10. esoteric intended for a chosen few
11. mutilate to damage by cutting off an important part; to maim or injure

12. derisive expressing ridicule, mockery or scorn
13. persevered continued in spite of difficulty; persisted

14. imprudent lacking in caution or judgment
15. annihilation complete destruction

Posted by ValerieC at January 4, 2010 05:00 PM