English IV Vocabulary

1. Quarter 1 English IV Vocabulary

2. Week One, 1-4 • Accept, except • Verb-to approve or receive willingly • preposition:-excluding, leaving out • Ad, add • Noun-short for advertisement • Verb-to combine • Affect, effect • Verb-to have an effect on someone or something • Verb-to produce; noun-a result or consequence • Aid, aide • Verb-to offer help or assistance • Noun-someone/thing which helps or assists

3. Week one, 5-8 • Air, heir • noun- atmosphere • Noun-someone who inherits • Aisle, I’ll, isle • Noun-a passage • Contraction-I will • Noun-an island • Allusion, illusion • Noun-an indirect reference • Noun-a false appearance • Altar, alter • Noun-a place of worship • Verb-to change

4. Week 1, 9 • Bail, bail, bale • Verb-to clear water • Verb/noun-to release a prisoner, the money to release a prisoner • Noun-a large bundle

5. Vocabulary Week 2 • Bare, bear, bear • Adj: uncovered • Noun: large animal • Verb: to support or yield • buy, by, bye • Verb: to purchase • Preposition: near, through • goodbye • Capital (3), capitol • Adj: punishable by death • Noun: money • Noun: chief city • Noun: legislative building • Cent, scent, sent • Noun: a penny • Noun: an odor • Verb: past tense of send

6. Week 2 • Cite, site, sight • Verb: mention or quote • Noun: place • Noun: vision • Coarse, course • Adj: rough • Noun: path or class • Compliment • Verb: to praise • Noun: praise • Complement • Verb: to make complete

7. Week 3 • Break: verb-to separate or fracture • Brake: noun-constraint or limitation • Council: noun-a governing body • Counsel: verb-to give advice • Die: verb-to cease to live • Dye: verb-to color; noun-coloring • Desert: noun-a dry landscape • Desert: verb-to abandon • Dessert: noun-cake after supper • Elicit: verb-to bring out • Illicit: adj-illegal or dishonest • Eminent: adj-famous • Imminent: adj-pending or about to happen

8. Week 4 • Ensure: verb, to guarantee • Insure: verb, to protect • Fair: adj, just, equal • Adj, light • Noun, exposition • Fare: n, fee or price • Farther: preposition, beyond • Further: adj, additional • Forth: adv, forward • Fourth: after third • Hear: v, to listen • Here: adv, at this point/time • Higher: adv, above • Hire: v, to employ • Hole: noun, an opening • Whole: adj, complete • Idle: adj, inactive • Idol: n, one who is worshiped • Its: pro, possessive of it • It’s: contraction of it is • Know: v, to have knowledge • No: opposite of yes

9. Week 5 vocabulary, slide 1 of 2 • Lead-verb, to go in front • Lead-noun, the material in your pencil • Lead-adjective, most important • Led-verb, past tense of lead • Lie-verb, to tell an untruth • Lie-verb, to recline • Lye- noun, a substance used to make soap • Lose-verb, to misplace • Loose-adj, not tight • Meat- noun, food from animals • Meet- verb, to become acquainted with • Mete- verb, to give out such as punishment • Miner-noun, one who works in a mine • Minor- noun, one who is under a legal age • Minor – adj, not a great importance, not major

10. Week 5 vocabulary, slide 2 of 2 • Morning-noun, the beginning of a day • Mourning-n, a time of grief or sorrow • Pail-noun, a bucket • Pale-adj, lacking color • Pair-noun, a couple • Verb, to couple • Pear-noun, a fruit • Pare-verb, to peel or cut

11. Week 6 vocabulary slide 1 of 1 • Passed-v, past tense of pass • Past-n, history • Adjective, earlier • Patience-n, persistence, staying pwr • Patients-n, plural of patient • Peace-n, calm, stillness • Piece-n, section of whole • Plain-adj, simple, ordinary • Plain-adj, level or flat • Plane-n, aircraft, flat surface • Poor-adj, destitute, needy • Pour-v, dispense, spill out • Pore-n, minute opening • Pray-v, ask, meditate • Prey-v, to stalk; n, victim • Principal-n, school leader; most important • Principle-n, rule, belief • Raise-v, to lift, to increase • Rays-n, emission • Raze-v, to destroy

12. Week 7 vocabulary, slide 1 of 2 • Role-n, position, job • Roll-n, cylinder • V, to turn over • Sail-v, cruise, float • Sail-n, what catches the wind on a boat • Sale-n, transaction, auction • Sell-v, to vend or get rid of for money • Stair-n, step • Stare-v, to watch, • N, an intense look • Scene-n, setting, incident, full • Seen-past participle of see • Seam-n, closure, joint • Seem-v, to look as if • Shear-v, to cut off • Sheer-adj, see through • Soar-v, fly • Sore-adj, painful, angry • N, a wound

13. Week 7 vocabulary slide 2 of 2 • Stake-n, bet; v, risk; n, investment or prize • Steak-n, beef • Stationary-adj, motionless • Stationery-n, paper usually for letter writing • Tale-n, a story, a lie • Tell-v, to inform or disclose • Tail-n, end, an appendage, • V-to follow or track

14. Week 8 vocabulary, slide 1 of 2 • Than-adv, gives a choice • I’d rather teach than starve. • Then-adv, shows a progression in time • I’ll pass, then graduate. • There-adj or adv, shows location • Sit over there. • Their-possessive plural pronoun • Their work is on the desk • They’re-contraction of they are • Threw-verb, past tense of throw (to toss) • Through-prep, during or because of • Tied-adj, joined or equal • Tide-n, surge or wave of water • Too-adv, also • To-prep, toward • Two-noun, one + one

15. Week 8 vocabulary, slide 2 0f 2 • Vein-n, seam, trace • Vain-adj, hopeless • Adj, proud or conceited • Waist-n, middle part of your body • Waste-n, trash • Way-n, route or method or manner • Weigh-v, consider or judge the size of • Weak-adj, not strong • Week-noun, seven days

16. Week 9 vocabulary • Weather-n, is it raining, snowing? • Whether-adv, a choice-whether to pass or fail • Where-adv/pro, a location • Were-verb, plural past tense of are • Whine-v/n, that crying, whimping sound that gets no where with me • Wine-what you can’t drink for 2-3 more years, legally • Whose-pro, possessive of who • Who’s –pro, who is • Write-v, to make words with a pen/pencil • Right-adj, to not be wrong • Your-pro, possessive of you • You’re-pro conjunction, you are