Monday: pretentious
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Tuesday: prolific
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Wednesday: detrimental
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Thursday: monotony
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Friday: oblivious
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Please
select an activity.
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1. Match
Meanings
2.
Use Words in
Sentences
3. Latin
Root Words
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Match
Meanings
Can you match the words with their
meanings?
| pretentious |
prolific |
detrimental |
| monotony |
oblivious |
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answers!)
1. (sameness
leading to boredom)
2. (abundantly
fruitful)
3. (showy)
4. (harmful;
damaging)
5.
(inattentive
or unmindful; wholly absorbed)
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Use
Words in Sentences
Can you correctly use this week's words in
the following sentences?
| pretentious |
prolific |
detrimental |
| monotony |
oblivious |
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answers!)
1. The nouveau
riche often live in _________
houses
and drive
expensive
cars.
2. Spraying hedgerows and ditches to kill weeds proved
sadly
_________
to game birds who lost their nesting sites.
3. He
was a _________
writer
and wrote as many as six books a year.
4.
Deep
in her book,
Nancy
was __________ to the noisy squabbles of
her brother and his friends.
5.
He
took a clerical job, but soon grew to hate the
__________ of his
daily routine.
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Latin
Root Words 67%
of all English words originate from Latin. Do
you know which
of this week's
words come from Latin?
| pretentious |
prolific |
detrimental |
| monotony |
oblivious |
(Click
here to find out!)
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| Answers: Match
Meanings
1. monotony (sameness
leading to boredom)
2. prolific (abundantly
fruitful)
3. pretentious (showy)
4. detrimental (harmful;
damaging)
5.
oblivious (inattentive
or unmindful; wholly absorbed)
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| Answers: Use Words
in Sentences
1. The nouveau
riche often live in pretentious houses
and drive
expensive
cars.
2. Spraying hedgerows and ditches to kill weeds proved
sadly
detrimental to game birds who lost their nesting sites.
3. He
was a prolific writer
and wrote as many as six books a year.
4.
Deep
in her book,
Nancy
was oblivious to
the noisy squabbles of
her brother and his friends.
5.
He
took a clerical job, but soon grew to hate the monotony of
his
daily routine.
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Latin
Root Words
pretentious (showy)
comes from the Latin word
praetendere meaning
to
pretend.
prolific (abundantly
fruitful) comes from the Latin word
proles meaning
offspring.
detrimental (harmful;
damaging) comes from the Latin word
deterere
meaning to
wear away.
monotony (sameness
leading to boredom) does not come from Latin,
but does come from Greek monotonos: monos meaning
one and tonos
meaning tone.
oblivious (inattentive
or unmindful; wholly absorbed) comes from
the
Latin word oblivisci meaning to
forget.
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