1. feature Key Words Unit 2 ● Week 2
Context Clue: A nose is a feature of a face.
Context Clue: “This is one feature, or part, of his idea that was revolutionary for the time” (Plato and Aristotle, pg 152).
Define: A feature of something is a main part or characteristic
Ask: What is a feature of a house?
feature

2. foundation Key Words Unit 2 ● Week 2
Context Clue: The foundation of the club is service to others
Context Clue: “These two man laid the foundation, or the beginnings, for the way Europeans and American would one day think about government” (Plato and Aristotle, pg 152).
Define: A foundation is the basis or support on which something is built.
Ask: What is the foundation of your relationship with your best friend?
foundation

3. principal Key Words Unit 2 ● Week 2
Context Clue: Hunting was a principal way early people got food.
Context Clue: “This important, principal idea of Aristotle's was an inspiration to the founders of the United States” (Plato and Aristotle, pg 152).
Define: Principal describes someone or something of main importance or value.
Ask: Would you consider wheels to be a principal part of a car? Why or why not?
principal

4. reliable Key Words Unit 2 ● Week 2
Context Clue: Our car is reliable because we have taken many trips in it, and it has never needed to be repaired
Context Clue: “Plato did not think rule by the people was reliable or trustworthy” (Plato and Aristotle, pg 152).
Define: A reliable person or thing can be depended on with confidence.
Ask: Why would an employee want to hire a reliable person?
reliable

5. restricted Key Words Unit 2 ● Week 2
Context Clue: Talking is restricted in the library.
Context Clue: “Plato also felt that women should not be restricted to getting married” (Plato and Aristotle, pg 152).
Define: When something is restricted, it is limited or not allowed.
Ask: What are some restricted areas in your school?
restricted

6. promoted Key Words Unit 2 ● Week 2
Context Clue: The celebrity promoted his favorite charity by talking about it interviews.
Context Clue: “Although Plato worked for and promoted the suggestion that education should be required” (Plato and Aristotle, pg 152).
Define: If you promoted something, you supported it and helped it continue to exist and grow better or stronger.
Ask: What is a synonym for promoted?
promoted

7. maintain Key Words Unit 2 ● Week 2
Context Clue: Studying and doing your homework will help you maintain good grades.
Context Clue: “Warriors made up the second group, and were meant to maintain the state against enemies” (Plato and Aristotle, pg 152).
Define: to keep something going and preserve it.
Ask: If the car maintains its speed, does it slow down, speed up or remain the same?
maintain

8. regions Key Words Unit 2 ● Week 2
Context Clue: Many regions of the US have cold winters.
Context Clue: “He studied many different kinds of government in regions of Egypt” (Plato and Aristotle, pg 152).
Define: are large areas of land
that share a feature such as
climate or geography.
Ask: What regions of the United States have warm winters?
regions

9. Function Words & Phrases
Unit 2 ● Week 2
to touch on

10. Function Words & Phrases
Unit 2 ● Week 2
to take a job

11. Function Words & Phrases
Unit 2 ● Week 2
to teem with

12. to reach its height (to become the most successful)
Function Words & Phrases
Unit 2 ● Week 2
to reach its height (to become the most successful)

13. Basic Words
Unit 2 ● Week 2
festival

14. Basic Words
Unit 2 ● Week 2
schooling

15. Basic Words
Unit 2 ● Week 2
household

16. Basic Words
Unit 2 ● Week 2
sports

17. Basic Words
Unit 2 ● Week 2
citizens

18. Basic Words
Unit 2 ● Week 2
craftsman