Vocabulary+Unit+1

Answers to the Unit 1 Vocabulary worksheets are here.

Lesson 1 __Exercise A:__ Be sure you have your own guess, and a dictionary definition. Be sure that you understand the dictionary definition!!How close were you? Practice makes perfect! __Exercise B__: 1. c, 2, b, 3. d, 4. d, 5. a.

Lesson 2 __Exercise A__: Be sure you have brainstormed words with similar meanings, and looked up a dictionary definition. Be sure you understand the dictionary definition!! How close were you? Practice makes perfect! __Exercise B__ 1. Base word is PERSON. Look up the definition of the word IMPERSONATE and write a sentence that reveals its meaning. ex: It is illegal to //impersonate// a police officer by putting on a uniform and telling unsuspecting people that you work for the VPD. 2. Base word is PERTURB. Look up the definition of the word IMPERTURBABLE and write a sentence that reveals its meaning. 3. Base word is PRINT. Look up the definition of the word IMPRINT and write a sentence that reveals its meaning. 4. Base word is PRISON. Look up the definition of the word IMPRISON and write a sentence that reveals its meaning. 5. Base word is PERVIOUS. Look up the definition of the word IMPERVIOUS and write a sentence that reveals its meaning. __Exercise C:__ 1. impersonate 2. imperturbable 3. imperceptible 4. impervious 5. impenitent Excercise D: Answers will vary, If you choose to write a series of headlines that will enable a reader to "follow" the whole "trial of the century" that you are making up, it could become a writing assignment for your portfolio. Run it past a peer editor (or your teacher) if you think it would make a good alternative-style short story.

Lesson 3 __Exercise A:__ Be sure you have taken a guess at each word. Compare your answer to a dictionary definition. Be sure that you UNDERSTAND the dictionary definition!

__Exercise B:__ 1. not do business 2. seal, re-fasten 3. end 4. shut 5. not permit the public to use

Lesson 4 __Exercise A:__ 1. Latin, commemmoratus, to put on record. 2. Greek, delphys, womb (probably a reference to "Hey, lookit this weird fish that gives birth to babies instead of dropping eggs!") 3. Latin, vitulari, to rejoice 4. Old Celt, kagio, to enclose (like "cage") 5. Greek, "zoion" = animal, and "logos" word/study. 6. Latin, fortis, strength 7. Latin, fervens, glowing 8. Caribbean (Haiti), batata = sweet potato (through Spanish, patata) 9. Arabit, zarafa, giraffe. Replaced "camelopard", a combination of "camel" and "leopard" 10. Inuit, qayaq, "small boat of skin"

__Exercise B__ Maroon. "Maris" or "mare", Latin. The sea.

Review Unit 1: 1. epitaph 2. enclosure...constricting 3. impartial 4. dire 5. longevity 6. commemorate 7. cloister...imperturbable 8. preclude 9. immaterial 10. impersonate 11. eulogy 12. stricture 13. imperceptible 14. quarry 15. exclude