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4th Quarter Warm Ups

4th Quarter Warm Ups . Almost Finished!!!. Grammar Rule of the Week:. Based upon your knowledge from this year, find the mistakes with apostrophes in the following sentences. Vocabulary Word for Today:. Pugilist (n): fighter; boxer. The pugilists gloves ripped in the middle of the fight.

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4th Quarter Warm Ups

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  1. 4th Quarter Warm Ups Almost Finished!!!

  2. Grammar Rule of the Week: • Based upon your knowledge from this year, find the mistakes with apostrophes in the following sentences.

  3. Vocabulary Word for Today: Pugilist (n): fighter; boxer The pugilists gloves ripped in the middle of the fight.

  4. Vocabulary Word for Today: Pulchritude (n): physical beauty The girls pulchritude made everyone pale in comparison.

  5. Vocabulary Word for Today: Queue (n): a waiting line, especially of persons or vehicles Its frustrating to wait in the queue at the license plate agency.

  6. Vocabulary Word for Today: Recalcitrant (adj): stubbornly resistant to authority or restraint Many recalcitrant students were suspended in 08.

  7. Journal Entry: Are people who stand by and watch crimes just as bad as those who commit them? Why or why not? Explain your reasoning.

  8. Grammar Rule of the Week: Based upon your knowledge from this year, fix the fragments or run-ons in the following sentences.

  9. Vocabulary Word for Today: Remuneration (n): payment; reward He thought the remuneration was.

  10. Vocabulary Word for Today: Reverie (n): daydream; being lost in thought While in reverie.

  11. Vocabulary Word for Today: Ruminate (v): to ponder; to think over She refused to ruminate about the situation she ended up making a bad decision.

  12. Vocabulary Word for Today: Salutary (adj): promoting health; beneficial Apples are salutary to your health chocolate cake is not healthy.

  13. Journal Entry: If the government decided to shut down all schools and forbid you to go to any school, what would you do? Explain your answer.

  14. Grammar Rule of the Week: Based upon your knowledge from this year, fix the comma splices in the following sentences.

  15. Vocabulary Word for Today: Sangfroid (sahn-frwa)(n): poise and calmness, especially under strain During a crisis, his sangfroid was admirable, he never lost control.

  16. Vocabulary Word for Today: Saturnine (adj): gloomy; surly The saturnine student was kicked out of class, he never came back.

  17. Vocabulary Word for Today: Scintillate (v): to sparkle; to flash Her jewelry scintillated, the other girls were jealous.

  18. Vocabulary Word for Today: Sibilant (adj): producing a hissing sound The sibilant tire went completely flat, Joe had to change it in the rain.

  19. Journal Entry: How would you rate yourself on a scale of 1 to 10 (with 10 being the best) as a speaker? Explain your answer, discussing your strengths and weaknesses.

  20. Grammar Rule of the Week: Based upon your knowledge from this year, find the comma mistakes in the following sentences.

  21. Vocabulary Word for Today: Somnambulist (n): sleepwalker The somnambulist, frightened her family at 3 AM.

  22. Vocabulary Word for Today: Soporific (v): causing sleep Warm milk herbal tea and lullabies are soporific.

  23. Vocabulary Word for Today: Taciturn (adj): disinclined to talk; silent The moody withdrawn student was taciturn.

  24. Vocabulary Word for Today: Timorous (adj): easily frightened; timid The mouse was timorous and Julie was determined to catch it.

  25. Journal Entry: If you could travel for free to any one country in the world, which country would it be? Explain your answer, discussing why you chose that country.

  26. Grammar Rule of the Week: Based upon your knowledge from this year, find the subject-verb agreement mistakes in the following sentences.

  27. Vocabulary Word for Today: Titanic (adj): huge; powerful The car were so titanic that it took up two parking spaces.

  28. Vocabulary Word for Today: Transpose (v): to reverse the order or place of The students has to transpose the music composition in class.

  29. Vocabulary Word for Today: Truculent (adj): savage; fierce The tigers was being so truculent during the circus that they had to be put in their cages.

  30. Vocabulary Word for Today: Truncated (v): cut off; shortened The program were truncated because it was four hours long.

  31. Grammar Rule of the Week: Based upon your knowledge from this year, find the verb tense mistakes in the following sentences.

  32. Vocabulary Word for Today: Vie (v): strive; compete; contend

  33. Vocabulary Word for Today: Valor (n): courage; bravery

  34. Vocabulary Word for Today: Verve (n): energy, liveliness

  35. Vocabulary Word for Today: Virtuoso (n): person with unusual skill in any field; particularly in the arts

  36. Grammar Rule of the Week: • Based upon your knowledge from this year, find the verb tense mistakes in the following sentences.

  37. Vocabulary Word for Today: Votary (n): a person devoted to something

  38. Vocabulary Word for Today: Wanderlust (n): strong impulse to travel

  39. Vocabulary Word for Today: Whet (v): to sharpen; to stimulate

  40. Vocabulary Word for Today: Xenophobia (n): fear or hatred of strangers or foreigners

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