Words For People With Time To Kill

Cool It Now

Words for the Calm, Cool, and Collected

Provide the definition of the following words. Include the dictionary definition and a translation of the dictionary definition into your own words. Write an original sentence for each. Post one sentence as a comment.

1.     Decorous

2.     Equanimity

3.     Modest

4.     Propriety

5.     Prudent

6.     Serene

7.     Staid

8.     Stoic

If You Can’t Say Anything Nice

Words About Being Mean

Provide the definition of the following words. Include the dictionary definition and a translation of the dictionary definition into your own words. Write an original sentence for each. Post one sentence as a comment.

1.     Condemn

2.     Discredit

3.     Disparage

4.     Pejorative

5.     Plagiarism

6.     Vilify

Nasty Boys

(and Girls, Too!)

Provide the definition of the following words. Include the dictionary definition and a translation of the dictionary definition into your own words. Write an original sentence for each. Post one sentence as a comment.

1.     Brusque

2.     Caustic

3.     Fractious

4.     Incorrigible

5.     Ingrate

6.     Insolent

7.     Notorious

8.     Pugnacious

9.     Reprehensible

Old School

Words to Describe Your Teachers

Provide the definition of the following words. Include the dictionary definition and a translation of the dictionary definition into your own words. Write an original sentence for each. Post one sentence as a comment.

1.     Archaic

2.     Hackneyed

3.     Medieval

4.     Obsolete

Bo-o-o-ring

More Words to Describe Your Teachers

1.     Austere

2.     Mediocrity

3.     Mundane

4.     Ponderous

5.     Prosaic

6.     Sedentary

Who Can it Be Now?

Words for Men at Work

(extra credit for the first person who can explain this joke)

Provide the definition of the following words. Include the dictionary definition and a translation of the dictionary definition into your own words. Write an original sentence for each. Post one sentence as a comment.

1.     Apprehension

2.     Harbinger

3.     Ominous

4.     Premonition

5.     Timorous

6.     Trepidation

New Sensation

Words to Get Things Going

1.     Innovative

2.     Naïve

3.     Nascent

4.     Novel

5.     Novice

Straight Up

Words for the Honest and True

Provide the definition of the following words. Include the dictionary definition and a translation of the dictionary definition into your own words. Write an original sentence for each. Post one sentence as a comment.

1.     Candor

2.     Frank

Earth, Wind, and Fire

Elemental Vocabulary

1.     Arid

2.     Conflagration

3.     Nocturnal

4.     Sonorous

Full On

Words With the Volume Up to Ten

1.     Ample

2.     Comprehensive

3.     Copious

4.     Permeated

5.     Pervasive

6.     Prodigious

7.     Replete

R-E-S-P-E-C-T

Find Out What It Means To Me

Provide the definition of the following words. Include the dictionary definition and a translation of the dictionary definition into your own words. Write an original sentence for each. Post one sentence as a comment.

1.     Exemplary

2.     Idealize

3.     Laudatory

4.     Paramount

5.     Venerated

6.     Catalog

7.     Facile

8.     Fastidious

9.     Hierarchy

10.  Meticulous

11.  Pragmatic

12.  Solvent (not the scientific definition)