Everyday Vocabulary

Everyday Vocabulary: A program designed to encourage students to recognize vocabulary words in everday contexts.

Directions: Keep track of all "Everyday Vocabulary" words on this chart. If you find a word in another source (independent reading book, magazine, newspaper, song lyrics, etc.) bring the context in which you found the word to me. If you define the word correctly, I will give you a sticker.  Once you accumulated 10 stickers, you will receive a homework pass. Words are good all year - but can be found only once. Look out for words in television and movies too - but be sure to write down the title of the shows, as well as the sentence you found it in, to receive full credit. Good Luck and Happy Reading!

Words on our Everyday Vocabulary List:

obstinacy

skeins

obscure

resorted

mortal

indignantly

immortal

lyre

enranced

inspiration

summoned

condemned

perplexity

perpetual

descended

hovered

recesses

hanging judge

coroner's inquest

absolved

soldier of fortune

spinster

diagnostician

sedatives

access

careening

adversary

Charon ferrying the Styx

bloodless

conclude

compiled

corpus delectic

assent

surreptitious

treacherous

competent

conscientiously

sinister

malevolence

embark

fraternizing

apparition

gramophone

swan song

preposterous

accusations

interposed

forage

impromptu

purported

versimilitude

homicidal

bewilderment

credentials

enticed

babel

iniquitous

acquittal

impulsive

exonerated