Vocabulary Squares

Directions: Fill in one square for each of the vocabulary words you’re learning this week. Be sure that your sentences have enough context to show you understand the meaning of the word and that you use the word appropriately for its part of speech category.

Word / Part of speech/lexical category / Evidence for part of speech category* / Definition (in your own words) / Synonym / Antonym
Sentence (with enough context to show meaning) / Mnemonic Device or Illustration

*Evidence should come from morphology (the use of prefixes and suffixes) and from syntax (the words occurrence with other words and its relation and position to other words in the sentence). For example, evidence for a word being a noun could be that it occurs with the article/determiner the. Evidence for an adjective would be that it can take comparative and superlative forms (big, bigger, biggest). Evidence for a verb might be both its suffix –s, -ed, or –ing and its position in relation to other words: The hippo is running towards the mud puddle.)