Namesake Vocabulary and 4-square

We are going to take some time this year to amp up your vocabulary. If you only know a limited number of words it will be difficult, if not impossible for you to express yourself in complex ways. So, the English 10 team of teachers hope to bring you some different strategies to help you "own" some new words. We will all be starting in disparate places. Some of you may know 2 words on the list others may know more than half. We want to give you numerous strategies to help you to be successful. You will have to figure out how much work you will need to do to become proficient.

One strategy for vocab mastery is called the Vocabulary 4-square. The format for this is listed below. Remember to complete this for your assigned word and to add definitions to all of the words on the yellow sheet for Thursday. We will be reserving some class time on Tuesdays and Thursdays to extend our vocabulary study. Use markers to make your 4-square visually appealing.

WRITE THE WORD IN THE CENTER BOX, then in the four squares on the page do the following:

UPPER LEFT CORNER:
IMAGE: Draw a picture that illustrates the word.


UPPER RIGHT CORNER:
DEFINITION: Offer a paraphrased definition (put it your own words) and/ or offer synonyms


LOWER LEFT CORNER:
MORPHS: Provide other forms of the word. Offer 1,2,or 3 examples. (for example, empathy is a noun but empathetic is the adjective form of the word.)

Or

ANTONYMS: If you can’t provide any MORPHS provide antonyms or words that mean the opposite of your word.

(Morphs= transformations; morphology = the linguistic study of word derivations)


LOWER RIGHT CORNER:
SENTENCE: Write an original sentence about The Namesake that uses the vocabulary word correctly. Do not copy the sentence from the novel, but rather write your own sentence about the novel.


THE LIST:

Here is the list of words you will be responsible for knowing for the test on October 1.

acute (22)
morose (33)
despondent (50)
precarious (82)
diminutive (88)
benign (89)
empathy (109)
goad (111)
affluent (141)
anomaly (146)
sate (165)
abhor (176)
abate (181)
innate (200)
tranquil (205)
disparage (214)
subsist (218)
infuse (234)
quotidian (236)
discreet (250)
premonition (255)
aloof (257)
pliable (258)
pedagogue (260)
envious (270)
malaise (273)
uniform (adjective) (274)
renovate (275)
retract (275)
ruse (283)
colossus (285)
diminish (290)
forsake (290)