Unit One Vocabulary

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Example:
1. Context Sentence: The candle flickered, wavering in the wind.

2. Vocabulary Word: Wavering

3. Predicted Meaning: To flicker, to falter

4. Sentence using word’s predicted meaning: He could not waver on this

last step!

5. Word’s dictionary meaning: To flicker, to become weaker

6. Revised sentence using verify: Her smile wavered and dropped as his
face didn’t move.

7. Word image:
1. Context Sentence: I stared into the fathomless abyss, pondering what
horrors could call such a place home.

2. Vocabulary Word: Abyss

3. Predicted Meaning: A dark and deep place, a chasm.

4. Sentence using word’s predicted meaning: The abyss yawned as I

struggled to hold on to life.

5. Word’s dictionary meaning: A deep or seemingly bottomless chasm.

6. Revised sentence using verify: I closed my eyes and took my first

tentative step onto the invisible bridge.

7. Word image:
1. Context Sentence: Eternal darkness fell over the land a the Chasme
descended.

2. Vocabulary Word: Eternal

3. Predicted Meaning: Endless, everlasting

4. Sentence using word’s predicted meaning: I looked, and beheld a great

tree, one of endless and eternal glory.

5. Word’s dictionary meaning: lasting or existing forever, having no end

or beginning.

6. Revised sentence using verify: I touched that light only once, and
felt all of its endless and eternal power.

7. Word image:
1. Context Sentence: I had received a revelation, one that came from
long hours of study.

2. Vocabulary Word: Revelation

3. Predicted Meaning: A sudden or specific burst of insight.

4. Sentence using word’s predicted meaning: “My word, what a revelation?

That the demons are not demons at all?”

5. Word’s dictionary meaning: A surprising or unknown fact, especially

one made known in a dramatic way.

6. Revised sentence using verify: “For I had received a revelation from

God.”

7. Word image:
1. Context Sentence: “I had seen a most bizarre sight that day; a wizard,
with a hat on his bottom and pants on his head!”

2. Vocabulary Word: Bizarre

3. Predicted Meaning: Odd or strange.

4. Sentence using word’s predicted meaning: The creature was a bizarre

amalgamation of limbs and eyes.

5. Word’s dictionary meaning: Very strange or unusual, especially to

cause interest or amusement.

6. Revised sentence using verify: The bizarre clown rode a unicycle

upside down!

7. Word image:
1. Context Sentence: He was shunned, yet could not be cowed: he would
learn arcane magic, priests be damned to their own hell.

2. Vocabulary Word: shunned

3. Predicted Meaning: To be ostracized, an outcast.

4. Sentence using word’s predicted meaning: He was shunned from that day
on.

5. Word’s dictionary meaning: Persistently ignored, rejected

6. Revised sentence using verify: Although he had been shunned, it was

still possible to sway their minds.

7. Word image:
1. Context Sentence: The land was ripe and fertile for planting

2. Vocabulary Word: Fertile

3. Predicted Meaning: Lush, beautiful, filled with flora

4. Sentence using word’s predicted meaning: The land was lush and green,
holding an abundance or apples.

5. Word’s dictionary meaning: (of soil or land) Capable of producing

abundant vegetation and crops.

6. Revised sentence using verify: His farmland was fertile from his
rotational farming, while his neighbors suffered for only planting
cotton.

7. Word image:
Vocabulary Word:
Stanzas Definition:a group of lines forming the
basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse.
Vocabulary Word:
Coast Definition: The part of
the land near the sea
Vocabulary Word:
Interior
Definition: The
inside of something
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Margin Definition: The edge or
border of something
Vocabulary Word: Definition: A group of

Clusters similar things or people

related or positioned
closely.