SOPHOMORE ENGLISHNAME______

VOCABULARY  LESSON 3

WORD LIST:

1. avarice – n greed; desire for wealth

syn: acquisitivenessant: largesse

2. furtive – adj stealthy; secretive

syn: surreptitious; sneakyant: overt

3. bacchanalian – adj wild and drunken

syn: ant: restrained

4. extradite – v. toturn over or deliver to the legal jurisdiction

syn: deportant:

5. copious – adj numerous; large in quantity

syn: profuseant: sparse

6. irascible – adj easily angered

syn: irritable; ill-temperedant: easygoing

7. mercenary – n. a professional soldier hired by a foreign army

syn: ant: volunteer

8. bastion – n. a strong defense or fort

syn: strongholdant:

9. jettison – v. to cast overboard; to discard

syn: deploy; throw awayant: retain

10. ostracize – v to banish; to shut out from a group or society by common consent

syn: exileant:accept

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ROOTS, PREFIXES and SUFFIXES

aud hear

herb grass; weed

cis/cide cut; kill

vis/vid see

in  into

ible/able  able

SOPHOMORE ENGLISHNAME______

VOCABULARY  LESSON 3

EXERCISE 1: Words in Context

From the list below, supply the words needed to complete the paragraph. Some words will not be used.

extraditeostracizefurtiveavarice

mercenary bacchanalianbastioncopious

1. ______

2. ______

3. ______

4. ______

5. ______

6. ______

7. ______

Hired to combat an increase in drug trafficking, the _1_ silently crawled through the fence line of the kingpin’s plantation and found a good hiding place. For two days, Manco sat in the patch and observed the mansion – supposedly an impenetrable _2_ in which the kingpin operated his international cartel. Manco was relieved to see that the rumors were false; the kingpin’s _3_ lifestyle of nightly parties would make Manco’s job simple because of the excessive noise and inadequate light beyond the cocktail area. After a[n] _4_ infiltration of the mansion, Manco would have an easy time arresting the kingpin, handcuffing him, sneaking him out, and then _5_ him to the States, where he would face trial for a[n] number of charges. The kingpin was a victim of his own _6_- had he kept his illegal business small and untraceable, no one would have hired Manco to deal with him.

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bastionjettisonedirascibleavariceostracized

1. ______

2. ______

3. ______

SOPHOMORE ENGLISHNAME______

VOCABULARY  LESSON 3

EXERCISE 2: Sentence Completion

Complete the sentence in a way that shows you understand the meaning of the italicized vocabulary word.

1. A criminal might be extradited to her home state for ______

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2. After a bacchanalian weekend, Ethan left ______

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3. It is a burden to have an irascible supervisor because ______

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4. The mercenary received no payment and thus refused to______

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5. Airplane passengers may have to jettison their luggage if ______

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6. The cliquish teens ostracized Raymond from their group because ______

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7. If I allow avarice to guide my career, I might choose to ______

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8. It doesn’t take a copious rainfall in the desert to ______

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9. A church might be called a bastion of ______

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10. One might want to be especially furtive when ______

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SOPHOMORE ENGLISHNAME______

VOCABULARY  LESSON 3

EXERCISE 3: Using Word Parts

Use a dictionary to define the following words.

  1. audible –
  1. visionary –
  1. herbicide –
  1. vista –
  1. auditory –
  1. incision –

7. suicide -

List as many other related words as you can that begin with aud and vid