1. Vocabulary Week 1

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3. Mnemonic Devices
A system of making something easier to memorize. Ms. Gelston’s classes came up with mnemonic devices for some of our other words. Benevolent- a doer of good Benevolent  Be-not-violent Morose- gloomy Morose Someone who dies gets more roses

4. Mnemonic Devices
More Exemplars: Attire-dress Customers dress casually at tire shops. Rampant- Wild I ran, pants down. Depict- represented Dee picked a flag shirt to wear on the 4th of July. After we go thru today’s words I want to see what you can come up with It doesn’t have to have the exact word in it, but close in pronunciation.

5. Avid Chimera Drudgery Indomitable Procured Sap Shirtwaist Sterile

6. I was an avid employee who went above and beyond, always out to impress my supervisor. Avid adj. very eager

7. A passerby in the city at night on Halloween often looked like a chimera and a lunatic. Chimera noun. A grotesque monster of different parts

8. I want to be free of the drudgery of repetitive minimum wage work
I want to be free of the drudgery of repetitive minimum wage work. Drudgery noun dull, boring work

9. The workers’ indomitable spirit made finishing a task easier
The workers’ indomitable spirit made finishing a task easier. Indomitable adj. incapable of defeat

10. Seeing that the harvest came early, the farmer procured the best fruit to sell at the market early to make money. Procured verb. gain

11. Working seven days a week would sap any energy he had for his family
Working seven days a week would sap any energy he had for his family . sap verb. Weaken or exhaust energy

12. The shirtwaist was appropriate for both the summertime heat and for a meeting with her clients. Shirtwaist noun. A tailored blouse worn by women

13. In the small town many brilliant minds became stuck in dead end jobs, sterile due to the lack of job opportunities. Sterile adj. unable to grow or develop