Vocabulary Builder Course 5

Lesson 16:

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Introduction
Students have read “Context Clues: Reading in the Sciences” and completed three exercises to learn the following new vocabulary words: agrarian, ameliorate, commissary, consternation, excise, gambol, prudent, rigorous, succulent, and tawny.

Lesson Description
Students will visit an Online Etymology Dictionary, where they will look up the answer to a genealogy question for each of the vocabulary words.

Instructional Objectives

1. Students’ understanding of individual word definitions will become more concrete.
2. Students will improve their ability to recognize root words and their meanings in the English language.
3. Students will come to appreciate how words are changing entities with histories rather than static things with simple definitions.
4. Students will become familiar with a valuable online word tool.

Student Web Activity Answers

1. Lex agraria
2. 1767
3. Ecclesiastical or religious
4. “Throw down”
5. Holland
6. Horse
7. Old French
8. Numbness or stiffness
9. Succus
10. Tanned leather

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