ELD – Week of 11/23/2020 Vocabulary Grid

Please use this vocabulary grid to track your personal weekly vocabulary development in your content area classes. Please
include academic words you learn in school over the course of the week.

Word/Phrase Definition (English) Home Language My Notes/Questions/Sentence

WoW! legitimate (verb): to justify
(verb): to justify
(adjective): conforming 合法的
legitimate (adjective): to the laws or the rules
conforming to the laws
or the rules

My new word #1:  something which can 替补 The only alternative to intervention.

be chosen instead
alternative

My new word #2: lacking originality or 常规的 Most of her books

individuality are conventional detective stories.
conventional

My new word #3: free of encumbrance 无拘无束 These rules will only encumber the
people we're trying to help.
unencumbered

My new word #4  the history of 词源 He decline of etymology as a linguistic

etymology a linguistic form (such discipline
as a word)

My new word #5 unexpectedly 遭遇 We have encountered one small problem

encounter  experience or be faced
with (something
difficult or hostile