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  • Session #1: SAT* Words #1 puzzle link
     abstract, aesthetic, benevolent, capricious, complacent, conciliatory, devious, diligent, discernible, dogmatic, eccentric, fallacious, indifferent, inquisitive, meticulous, pertinent, plausible, reticent
  • Session #2: SAT* Words #2 puzzle link
     candid, inevitable, lethargy, morose, novice, obscure, ostentatious, precocious, prevaricate, querulous, quiescent, repose, repudiate, soporific, spontaneous, squander, theoretical, virulent
  • Session #3: SAT* Words #3 puzzle link
     apathy, disdain, diverse, enigma, futile, gratuitous, hackneyed, incessant, insidious, integrity, jocular, kindle, ludicrous, provocative, reclusive, reverence, scrutinize, superficial
  • Session #4: SAT* Words #4 puzzle link
     affinity, clairvoyant, emulate, expedite, impetuous, innocuous, mundane, penitent, propensity, regressive, resilient, sedentary, succinct, terse, ubiquitous, vindictive, wanton, zenith
  • Session #5: SAT* Words #5 puzzle link
    ramification, rapacious, recalcitrant, recant, recrimination, redolent, redundant, refutable, relegate, relinquish, remonstrate, reparation, replenish, reprehensible, requisite, resolute, rigorous, rudimentary
  • Session #6: SAT* Words #6 puzzle link
    acumen, chicanery, deleterious, epiphany, facetious, homogeneous, incognito, kinetic, loquacious, lugubrious, nihilism, obsequious, paradigm, precipitous, sanguine, unctuous, vacuous, xenophile
  • Session #7: SAT* Words #7 puzzle link
    acrimonious, alacrity, conjecture, conspicuous, deviate, disparage, erudite, exonerate, extricate, incorrigible, indolent, judicious, mitigate, ostensible, palpable, pandemonium, rectify, surreptitious
  • Session #8: SAT* Words #8 puzzle link
    abject, affluence, analogous, arbitrary, cognizant, compulsory, destitute, disseminate, fortuitous, impeccable, impervious, insatiable, oscillate, prerogative, stringent, truncate, unobtrusive, unscrupulous
  • Session #9: SAT* Words #9 puzzle link - derived from "foreign", not Latin or Greek, words
    Aficionado, Alchemy, Ambiance, Avatar, Bourgeois, Chaparral, Cognoscente, Connoisseur, Dilettante, Imbroglio, Juggernaut, Junta, Malaise, Nirvana, Peccadillo, Raconteur, Vignette, Virtuoso
  • Session #10: SAT* Words #10 puzzle link - derived from Science/Biology BUG-related words
    embryonic, entomologist, indefatigable, indigenous, industrious, iridescent, insatiable, insecticide, larvae, metamorphosis, nemesis, nocturnal, pollinate, proboscis, quarantine, subterranean, trepidation, ubiquitous

     

     

    If you plan on applying to college during the 12th grade, then 11th grade may be the most important year to prepare. As the last full year of school that colleges can evaluate before they make a decision on your application, what you do in class and out of class during 11th grade is crucial. This year is also when you should begin preparing for college applications by researching colleges and signing up to take standardized tests for the first time. Here are some reminders of things to do during your junior year, no matter which colleges you are considering.


     
     Assignments for Eleventh Grade

    Stanford: Preparing for College: Grade 11

    During 11th grade, seek out ways to become more involved in the clubs and ... These teachers should have taught you in the core academic subjects of English ...
    www.stanford.edu/dept/uga/applying/1_2a2_grade11.html

    Language Arts - Writing & Reading

    Language Arts ResourcesHome

    Eleventh Grade Language Arts

    11-LJunior Practice Vocabulary Tests

    11TH GRADE: U.S. HISTORY

    Vocabulary Lists for All Quarters

    abominable   abstain     accolade     accord     accost    adroit     adulation

    adversary    advocate     affect   affluent    aficionado     altruistic     ambiguous

    amicable    anonymity    apathy       appall     apprehend     ascetic     astute

    attrition     augment     belligerent     benign     bilingual     boisterous

    boycott    capricious     catastrophe     chagrin     charisma     circumvent

    cliché     cogitate

    collaborate

    colloquial

    communal

    complacent

    compliant

    concise

    condemn

    conducive

    congenital

    conscience

    conscious

    conservative

    conspicuous

    consternation

    contradict

    copious

    creed

    cultivate

    decimate

    defer

    defiant

    delude

    demographic

    deviate

    dictator

    diplomacy

    disdain

    disparity

    dogmatic

    ecology

    effect

    emphatic

    enigma

    epitome

    eulogy

    exuberant

    fidelity

    flaunt

    fraternal

    goad

    gregarious

    gullible

    habituate

    hypocrite

    imbue

    impede

    inadvertently

    indulge

    insolence

    integrity

    introspection

    liberal

    ludicrous

    magnanimous

    malady

    meticulous

    misanthrope

    mitigating

    monologue

    nonchalant

    obsolete

    pathetic

    perpetual

    persecute

    pinnacle

    proclaim

    prohibit

    prologue

    prominent

    pseudonym

    psychosomatic

    radical

    renegade

    retribution

    retroactive

    sinister

    skeptical

    spartan

    speculate

    subjugate

    successive

    supplant

    synopsis

    synthesis

    undermine

    11th Grade Root Words*

    Teaching timeline: anytime

    Tested for mastery : 4th quarter

    pater = father

    mater = mother

    frater = brother

    spect = to see

    magna = large, great

    micro = small

    macro = large

    mal = bad, evil

    bene = good

    nym = name, noun

    pseudo = false

    sub = under

    retro = back

    thesis = idea

    per = through

    * revised root word list.

     

     
     www.nytimes.com/learning/students/wor

    http://www.onelook.com/wotd.shtml

    http://www.bartleby.com/61/

    www.m-w.com/dictionary.htm

    SAT Prep List

    1) vertigo

    2) debacle

    3) condign

    4) ephemerally

    5) histrionic

    6) urbanity

    7) truculent

    8) inveigh

    9) desultory

    10) ingenious

    11) cumulative

    12) epigram

    13) gesticulate

    14) beguile

    15) avid

    16) labyrinth

    17) regurgitate

    18) podium

    19) bereft

    20) elucidate

    21) prologue

    22) acknowledge

    23) indictment

    24) lackluster

    25) condominium

    26) incumbent

    27) polarization

    28) genesis

    29) diminution

    30) wary
    ameliorate to improve, make better, correct a flaw
    aplomb poise, assurance, great self-confidence
    bombastic pompous or overblown in language
    callow without experience;p immature, not fully developed
    drivel saliva or mucus flowing from the mouth or nose; foolish, aimless
    epitome to summary, condensed account, an instance that represents a larger reality
    exhort to urge strongly, advise earnestly
    ex officio by virtue of holding a certain office
    infringe violate, trespass, go beyond recognized bounds
    ingratiate to make oneself agreeable and thus gain favor or acceptance
    interloper one who moves in where he or she is not wanted or has no right to be, an intruder
    intrinsic belonging to someone or something by its very nature
    inveigh to make a violent attack in words, express strong disapproval
    lassitude weariness of body or mind, lack of energy
    millennium a period of one thousand years
    occult mysterious, magical, supernatural
    permeate to spread through, penetrate, soak through
    precipitate to fall as moisture; to cause or bring about suddenly
    stringent strict, severe, rigorously or urgently binding
    surmise to think or believe without certain supporting evidence

    11th Grade Vocabulary Lists 1- 10

     

    List #1                                      List #2                                      List #3

    Approbation                             jaded                                        ameliorate

    Assuage                                   lurid                                          aplomb

    Coalition                                   meritorious                               bombastic

    Decadence                               petulant                                    callow

    Elicit                                         prerogative                               drivel

    Expostulate                               provincial                                  epitome

    Hackneyed                               simulate                                    exhort

    Hiatus                                       transcend                                  ex officio

    Innuendo                                  umbrage                                   infringe

    Intercede                                  unctuous                                   ingratiate

     

    List #4                                      List #5                                      List #6

    Interloper                                 abominate                                 inadvertent

    Intrinsic                                    acculturation                             nominal

    Inveigh                         adventitious                              noncommittal

    Lassitude                                  ascribe                                     peculate

    Millennium                                circuitous                                  proclivity         

    Occult                                      commiserate                             sangfroid

    Permeate                                  enjoin                                       seditious

    Precipitate                                expedite                                   tenuous

    Stringent                                   expiate                                     vitriolic

    Surmise                                    ferment                         wheedle

     

    List #7                                      List #8                                      List #9

    Affable                         irrevocable                               amnesty

    Aggrandize                               propensity                                autonomy

    Amorphous                              querulous                                  axiomatic

    Aura                                         remonstrate                              blazon

    Contraband                              repudiate                                  caveat

    Erudite                                     resilient                         equitable

    Gossamer                                 reverberate                               extricate

    Infer                                         scurrilous                                  filch

    Inscrutable                                sedulous                                   flout

    Insular                                      sleazy                                       fractious

     

    List #10

    Precept                                                transient

    Salutary                                    unwieldy

    Scathing                                   vapid

    Scourge                                   

    Sepulchral

    Soporific

    Straitlaced

     
    2006 Elementary Word Lists are available by clicking here
     2006 Junior Word Lists are available by clicking here
     
    11th Grade Home Page

     
    Welcome to the 11th grade Home Page. Here, you will be able to explore links related to our work in class.

    Practice for the exam on "The Test" by doing these exercises:
    The Test - Content

    The Test - Active Vocabulary

    The Test - Passive Vocabulary

    The Test - Passive Vocabulary for older browsers



    Practice for the exam by doing this exercise - based on the words in Finishing Touches, page 30.
    Unit 5 Vocabulary Cloze
    (NOTE: If you don't know the word, press on "Hint" at the bottom of the page, and you will be given the next letter of the word. You may do this as often as you need!)

     

    Can you put the correct form of "Do" or "Make" in the sentences?: "Do" or "Make"

     
    Let's practice irregular verbs.

    Link to English Zone Irregular Verbs.

    Let's review Unit 1
    Unit 1 Review

     
    Useful links

     
    Question Answer Note/Hint
    aback surprised; startled  
    abate to lessen; to decrease  
    abdicate to give up  
    abduct to take away; to kidnap  
    aberration abnormality  
    abet to aid; to encourage  
    abeyance a postponement  
    abhor to hate  
    abide to remain or to put up with  
    abject miserable  
    abjure to give up (rights); to deny  
    ablution cleansing  
    abolition doing away with  
    abominate to dislike strongly  
    aborigine original inhabitant  
    abortive unsuccessful  
    abrade to wear or scrape away  
    abridge to shorten or diminish  
    abrogate to abolish  
    abscond to leave secretly  
    absolve to free from responsibilty  
    abstemious to show moderation in eating or drinking  
    abstinence self-denial; voluntary restraint  
    abstract lacking substance; theoretical  
    abut to border on; adjoin  
    abysmal extremely bad  
    abyss a bottomless pitl; vast  
    academic theoretical or pertaining to school  
    accede to agree to; accept  
    accessible easy to approach  
     
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