Freshman+Lists+and+Activities

For each of the following weekly sets of vocabulary "roots" and "terms" do the following activities in your seating groups:

Create a webpage with: a. Definitions for each root and its terms;

b. An activity for each member of your group chosen from the Activities page.

d. A review activity that tests a student's knowledge of the roots, the terms, and their definitions. Each week try to create a different review activity.

Week 1 TRANS: across or through

1. transaction: n. putting through a business deal

2. transparent: adj. letting light pass through (you can see through it)

PORT: to carry

3. deport: v. to send a person out of the country

4. export: v. to send goods out of the country

5. deportment: n. conduct; behavior

AUD: to hear

6. audit: n. an official examination of an account book

7. inaudible: adj. cannot be heard

VIS: to see

8. visa: n. an endorsement on a passport granting entrance to

a country

9. visage: n. the face or look of a person

10. providential: adj. provided by divine guidance; lucky

Week 2 FIC / FECT: make

1. affect: v. to influence; to make an impression on

2. effect: n. result; v. to cause or bring about a result (to "effect

a change")

3. deify: v. to make someone or something into a god

4. efficacious: adj. producing the wanted results; successful

COR / COUR: heart

5. cordial: adj. warm; cheerful

6. discourage: v. to deprive of confidence, hope or courage

CON: with or together

7. congregate: v. to gather with others in one place

8. consolidate: v. to unite into one whole; combine

ANTI: against

9. antibiotic: n. a drug capable of killing germs inside the body

10. antidote: n. a remedy to counteract a poison

Week 3 MEM: remember

1. memoirs: n. a record of something to be remembered

2. memorable: adj. worth remembering; noteworthy

3. commemorate: v. to observe; to recall to memory

4. memorabilia: n. objects and things remembered and collected

CIRCUM: around

5. circumference: n. the permitted of a circle

6. circumvent: v. to go around or bypass

7. circumspect: adj. watchful; cautious

VINC / VICT: conquer

8. invincible: adj. cannot be defeated; unstoppable

9. evict: v. to put a person from a property by legal process

Week 4 INTER: between / among

1. intercept: v. to take something on the way from one place to another

2. interstate: adj. crossing state lines

3. interim: n. the time between one thing and another (as in "in the

interim")

4. interdict: v. to forbid

ANTE: before

5. antecede: v. to go before in time

6. antebellum: adj. before the war (especially the Civil War)

CRED: believe

7. discredit: v. to cast doubt; ruin the reputation of

8. incredible: adj. unbelievable

9. credence: n. belief as to the truth of something

10. incredulous: adj. unbelieving; skeptical

Week 5 CULE: very small

1. molecule: n. the smallest unit of matter

2. minuscule: adj. extremely small; insignificant

FIX: fix

3. fixation: n. obsession; state of being attached

4. affix: v. to fasten; to seal

5. transfix: v. to hold motionless

RECT: right / straight

6. rectify: v. to correct a situation or problem

7. rector: n. a minister or priest who heads a parish, college, etc.

BIO: life

8. autobiography: n. one’s life story written by oneself

9. bionics: n. science of designing instruments after living things

10. biopsy: n. an examination of disease tissue

Week 6 1. precede: v. to go before

2. recede: v. to go back; withdraw

3. precedent: n. a case which may serve as a justification in future cases

4. proceeding(s): n. legal actions; events or happenings; an official record of things said or done

PRE: before

5. preamble: n. an introduction to a document

6. premonition: n. feeling that something is going to happen

7. precocious: adj. advanced mentally with relationship to age

LITCIT: permit

8. license: n. to permit or authorize

9. licentious: adj. immoral; sexually loose

10. illicit: adj. unlawful; illegal


 * Week 7**

CAPIT: head

1. decapitate: v. to cut off someone’s head

2. capital: adj. punishable by death; main

3. capitulate: v. to surrender

CHRON: time

4. chronological: adj. in time order

5. chronic: adj. continuing for a long time

6. chronicle: n. a record of events; a history

7. chronometer: n. an instrument to keep time

METE: measure

8. odometer: n. an instrument for measuring the distance traveled

9. perimeter: n. the distance around

10. seismometer: n. an instrument to measure the movement of the earth (earthquakes) =Week 8=

// GRAD / GRESS: step or degree// 1. [|digress]: v. to wander off the topic 2. [|degrade]: v. to put down; put a step lower

//TRACT: to draw or pull// 3. [|retract]: verb. drawn back or in (as "retract that statement") 4. [|detract]: v. to draw away from (as "detracts from the beauty of..")

PEND: hang 5. [|pendulum]: n. something hung as to swing freely 6. [|suspend]: v. to hang by a support; to exclude from school 7. impending: adj. hanging over one, as doom

ASTER /ASTRO: star 8. [|asteroid]: adj. like a star; n. a small body that rotates around the sun 9. [|astrology]: n. the study of the stars as having an influence on one’s destiny (horoscopes) 10. [|astronomy]: n. science of heavenly bodies (stars, planets, etc.)