7 & 8 Vocabulary # 18

Jan. 16, 2012

Directions:

1) Identify the part of Speech.

2) Respell the word (in whatever way needed) to learn the pronunciation.

3) AND THEN write out the word separated into syllables.

4) Write out each word 3 times

5) On a separate sheet of paper, write out ONE sentence for each word (6 word min). [No Pred. Adj.]

6) THEN on write one additional sentence using a minimum of THREE vocab words.

1) Paternal - __________ - Fatherly: father like

2) Pathology - __________ - The science of diseases

3) Patriarch - __________ - The male head of the family

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4) Patrician - __________ - A person of noble birth; an aristocrat

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5) Patronize - __________ - To treat as inferior: to condescend to

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6) Paucity - __________ - A scarcity

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7) Pedantic - __________ - Boringly scholarly or academic

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8) Pedestrian - __________ - unimaginative; unoriginal; banal

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9) Pejorative - __________ - Negative; disparaging; putting down

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10) Penchant - __________ - A strong taste or liking for something; a predilection

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11) Penitent - __________ - Sorry, Repentant; contrite

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12) Pensive - __________ - Thoughtful and sad

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13) Peremptory - __________ - Final; categorical; dictatorial; No chance to dispute it (“Because I said so”)

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14) Perennial - __________ - Continual; happening again and again or year after year

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15) Perfidy - __________ - Treachery (Adj. form = Perfidious)

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