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Learning Rights: Expand Your Academic Vocabulary

Enhance your academic vocabulary with definitions and usage examples of key words like adroit, amicable, averse, benevolent, and more. Master these words for effective communication and writing.

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Learning Rights: Expand Your Academic Vocabulary

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  1. Vocabulary Unit 2 Academic English 10

  2. You have a right to learn! After reviewing the meaning and use of each word, write a sentence of your own. Be sure to use context clues to reinforce the word’s meaning. You have to write to learn!

  3. adroit • (adj) really good at doing stuff with his/her hands I admire __________________ because he/she is so adroit at _____________

  4. amicable • (adj) friendly • Amigo=friend I have an amicable relationship with _____________; we have ______________.

  5. averse • (adj) extremely opposed or against

  6. belligerent • (adj) likes to fight, combative • (n) someone involved in a war

  7. benevolent • (adj) kind, giving -does things that are “bene”ficial for others

  8. Complete Sentences#5, 7, 12, 13 and 20 • On page 29

  9. cursory • (adj) quickly, not looking at the details enough

  10. duplicity • (n) deceitfulness • Trying to “dupe” someone • “Duplicate” personas

  11. extol • (v) to praise a great deal • “ex”claim about their greatness

  12. feasible • (adj) possible, able to be done • Easy-ible

  13. grimace • (n) pained facial expression • (v) to make a pained face • Face caused by something “grim”

  14. Complete on pages 29 and 30: 1, 6, 9, 16 and 19

  15. holocaust • (n) large-scale destruction • “Costs” people a lot

  16. impervious • (adj) not affected or hurt by; admitting no entrance

  17. impetus • (n) a moving force, impulse, stimulus

  18. jeopardy • (n) danger • Puts you in jeopardy of losing you life

  19. meticulous • (adj) extremely careful, particular about details

  20. Complete on pages 29 and 30 8,10,11,14 &17

  21. nostalgia • (n) wanting to go back to the way things were, longing for something past

  22. quintessence • (n) purest form of something or the best example • The very “essence” of it

  23. retrogress • (v) to move backward, return to earlier condition • “retro”-from a before period

  24. scrutinize • (v) to examine closely

  25. tepid • (adj) not especially interested, lukewarm

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