Tuesday, January 31, 2012

English I (Pre-AP): Vocabulary/Meaningful Sentences for Intro to Greek Myth

Write meaningful sentences for each of these vocabulary words:
  • Abducted (v / adj): carried off or led away illegally and in secret or by force; especially to kidnap / kidnapped

  • Commerce (n): business; trade involving interchange of goods and services

  • Conventional (adj): conforming or adhering to accepted standards, such as conduct or taste

  • Destiny (n): the predetermined, usually inevitable or irresistible, course of events; fate

  • Hearth (n): the floor of a fireplace, usually of stone, brick, etc., often extending a short distance into a room

  • Immortal (adj): not subject to death; undying; everlasting; eternal

  • Lure (v): to attract, entice, or tempt

  • Outwit (v): to win due to superior mental creativity or cleverness; to outsmart

  • Supernatural (adj): outside what is considered the natural world; unexplainable by natural law; abnormal

  • Trident (adj): a three-pronged spear


For instance, if the vocabulary word was:
Legend (n): a story (without gods/goddesses) handed down by generations and generally accepted as historical.
a meaningful sentence would be:
My teacher told me a legend about Davy Crockett; it was full of unbelievable stuff, but the part about the Alamo was in the history book.


Due: Wednesday, Feb. 1st.

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