Vocabulary Unit 6

  1. admonish (v) to scold or to caution
  2. antipathy (n) disgust, or an instinctive hate of something
  3. atmosphere (n) the mood associated with the place
  4. blight (n) any cause of destruction (v) to cause destruction or ruin
  5. blithe (adj) joyous
  6. clod (n) a piece of earth/clay or an idiot
  7. egotism (n) selfishness or excessive arrogance
  8. factor (n) one element contributing to a situation (v) to influence as an element
  9. implicit (adj) implied instead of directly stated
  10. iniquity (n) a gross evil or injustice

Part One

Determine which column BEST uses the vocabulary word.

A / B
1 / The hot water admonished my back so horribly that I got blisters. / Every Halloween my mother admonishes me to be sure to watch for cars, criminals, and tainted candy.
2 / I am antipathetic toward the consumption of mysterious and gelatinous sea creatures like sea apples and sea cucumbers. / I feel antipathy toward my father when he comes to Atlanta and doesn’t visit me.
3 / The atmosphere of the courtroom was heavier than his life sentence. / I would like to fly into the atmosphere.
4 / The dynamite blighted the building in less than thirty seconds. / The blight of the Spanish Influenza killed over 100 million people across the globe.
5 / Vivaldi’s Four Seasons begins with a blithe ode to spring and ends with a dark interpretation of winter. / The Christmas tree in the school lobby created a blithe atmosphere.
6 / I felt like a clod after the calculus test; I know I failed. / New Jersey is a particularly heinous clod.
7 / Because of her egotism, there were no more chips in the house to eat after football practice. / Henry’s egotism was obvious on and off the field, for he often danced for the stadium crowds and took selfies with fans.
8 / One factor of poverty is a poor education. / One of the factors of Coca-Cola used to be cocaine.
9 / Although her boss smiled and said, “Good morning,” she could still see the implicit antipathy in the man’s eyes. / When I say to turn in your homework, it is implicit that I mean that it needs to be 100% correct.
10 / Getting a speeding ticket for going five miles-per-hour shows the cop’s iniquity. / The rates of police violence toward African-American malesshows a great iniquity in the American judicial system.

Part Two

Answer each of the following questions in complete sentences. YOU MUST USE THE WORD IN YOUR RESPONSE.

  1. Describe a time when someone has admonished you for doing something that you did not understand was wrong.
  2. Why would someone feel antipathy toward you?
  3. Describe the perfect class atmosphere.
  4. If the zombie apocalypse became a blight, how would you survive?
  5. Describe the blithest person you know. What makes him or her blithe?
  6. In what ways do you feel like a clod?
  7. Is it always detrimental to be egotistic? Why?
  8. What factors do you have in your life that encourages your success?
  9. Describe the difference between an explicit and implicit threat. Which is more dangerous?

Part Three

Fill in the blanks

Sitting in Mrs. Brooks’ classroom and floundering over romantic poetry made me feel like a (1) ______. For despite having studied all of the poetry terms, I still could not assert what Longfellow’s (2) ______meaning was when he repeats “The tide rises, the tide falls” in each subsequent stanza. I mean, understand that he is talking about time, but I become really befuddled when Ms. Brooks makes us assert what his message is about time. She is so (3) ______(ous) for making us do this assignment. Andfor being such a prodigious poet, Longfellow can ramble about naught. But I have to continue to try because no matter what (4)______I feel toward Longfellow at this point—and I truly hate the man now—I need this grade. Failing would be a (5) ______on my record, and if I am trying to get into a good college, every grade, big and small, is a (6) ______in my average. Plus I don’t need my mom (7) ______ing me about something so microscopic in the scheme of my life. But then again, who needs poetry anyway? Everyone knows that poets are just (8) ______flakes who think their ideology is worthy of worldwide deference. Every time a teacher even starts on poetry, the class (9) ______immediately changes to one of inertia and annoyance. Don’t teachers want us to be (10) ______? Poetry analysis should be banned.

Part Four

Create concept maps for each of the words.

Ex: Full idea stem with word (Times I’ve Been Admonished)

  1. Example (When I threw a skate at our television because my dad wouldn’t answer a question)
  2. Example (When I ran into a brick wall in middle school because I was teasing a boy)
  3. Example(When I refused to clean my room as a child)

Part Six

Write a letter to me.in which you argue why we should or should not have homework for the remainder of the year. Use eight of the words correctly in the letter.

Part Eight

Illustrate each of the words.