Vocabulary: Review 1a

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Adv Comp 08 22 07

• Vocabulary Review 1a
• Grammar Compound Sentences
• Literature The Power of One
• Chapters 3-5 reading study guide due
  Tuesday September 4

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Vocabulary Unit 1
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Unit 1

• Acquisitive (adj.) able to get and to retain
  ideas or information concerned with acquiring
  wealth.
• 2. Arrogate (verb with object) to claim or take
  without right. arrogatingly, adverb
  arrogation, noun
• arrogator, noun
• 3. Banal (adj.) hackneyed, trite, commonplace

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Unit 1

• 4. Belabor (verb) to work on excessively to
  thrash soundly. to belabor the obvious
• 5. Carping (adjective) to find fault, especially
  in a petty nasty or hairsplitting way. (noun)
  petty nagging, criticism. the carping of the
  critics
• 6. Coherent (adj) holding or sticking together
  making a logical whole comprehensible,
  meaningful a coherent explanation

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Vocabulary

• Congeal, emulate, encomium
• Congeal (verb) to change from liquid to solid,
  thicken to make inflexible or rigid as the drop
  of blood slowly congealed
• Emulate (verb) to imitate with the intent of
  equaling or surpassing the model to emulate a
  great writer
• Encomium (noun) a formal expression of praise a
  lavish tribute the encomium due to the brave

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Unit 1

• Eschew (verb) to avoid, shun, keep away from.
  eschew bad habits
• Excoriation (noun) a strong denunciation the
  act of stripping away the skin. a violent
  excoriation of the traitor

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Review Unit 1a

• (adj.) hackneyed, trite, commonplace
• (noun) a strong denunciation the act of
  stripping away the skin.
• (verb) to avoid, shun, keep away from.

• Banal
• Excoriation
• Eschew

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Review Unit 1a

• (adjective) to find fault, especially in a petty
  nasty or hairsplitting way. (noun) petty nagging,
  criticism
• (verb with object) to claim or take without right

• Carping
• Arrogate

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Review Unit 1a

• adj) holding or sticking together making a
  logical whole comprehensible, meaningful
• (noun) a formal expression of praise a lavish
  tribute

• Coherent
• Encomium

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Review Unit 1a

• verb) to change from liquid to solid, thicken to
  make inflexible or rigid
• verb) to imitate with the intent of equaling or
  surpassing the model

• Congeal
• Emulate

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Review Unit 1a

• verb) to work on excessively to thrash soundly
• (adj.) able to get and to retain ideas or
  information concerned with acquiring wealth

• Belabor
• Acquisitive

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• Grammar Compound Sentences

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GOOD WRITING REQUIRES SENTENCE VARIETY

• SHORT SENTENCES
• MEDIUM LENGTH
• LONG SENTNECES

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GOOD WRITING REQUIRES SENTENCE VARIETY

• SHORT MEDIUM and LONG SENTNECES
• can be created using clauses.
• CLAUSES have a subject and a verb.
• THERE are 2 types of clauses
• INDEPENDENT
• DEPENDENT

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SENTENCE COMBINING

• GOOD writing will combine these clauses in a
  variety of ways.
• THIS lesson involves creating
• COMPOUND
• SENTECES

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SENTENCE COMNINNG 1

• IF THE IDEAS ARE CLOSELY RELATED THEY CAN BE
  JOINED WITH A
• SEMI-COLON

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SENTENCE COMBINING 1

• INDEPENDENT CLAUSE
• 1) We take care of our garden.
• 2) It takes care of us.

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SENTENCE COMBINING 1

• WE TAKE CARE OF OUR GARDEN
• IT TAKES CARE OF US.

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SENTENCE COMBINING 1

• WE TAKE CARE OF OUR GARDEN IT TAKES CARE OF US.
• ESPERANZA WAS BITTERLY DISAPOINTED SHE HATED THE
  NEW HOUSE.

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SENTENCE COMBINING 1

• ONE OF THE MOST UNUSUAL ANIMALS THAT AMERICAN
  BREEDERS HAVE PRODUCED IS THE CATTALO it is A
  CROSS BETWEEN A BUFFALO AND A COW.

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Practise

• Using your any five of your vocabulary words
  write five sentences using compound sentence
  structure.
• Make sure your diction is coherently associated.