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Mr. Gibson Classes Defining & Utilizing Action Words in Contextual Settings Week 19: Feb 27 – Mar 02 Two-thousand & twelve
Mr. Gibson ClassesDefining & Utilizing
Action Words in Contextual SettingsWeek 19: Feb 27 – Mar 02 Two-thousand &
twelve
SY: 2011-2012PSAE/ACT
Action Words
Good morning!Good morning ladies
& gentlemen!
Week 19: Feb. 27 – Mar. 02
Please open your PSAE Vocabulary Journals provided to you this morning by your Advisory Teacher.
SY: 2011-2012PSAE/ACT
Action Words
Week 19: Feb. 27 – Mar. 02
The PSAE/ACT “action” words to the left are to be entered into your journal.
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Action Words
•Prosperity•Provocative•Prudent•Querulous
Week 19: Feb. 27 – Mar. 02
SY: 2011-2012PSAE/ACT
Action Words
Week 19: Feb. 27 – Mar. 02
•Prosperity – an economic state of growth with rising profits and full or near-full employment.•Provocative – serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate. A stimulating discussion or exciting controversy.•Prudent – careful and sensible decisions or actions; marked by sound judgment.•Querulous – habitually complaining.
An economic state of growth with rising profits and full or near-full employment.
SY: 2011-2012PSAE/ACT
Action Words
Prosperity pross-PAIR-itty
“The nation’s wealth and _____________ depends upon a steady growth in jobs and economic opportunities.”
Week 19: Feb. 27 – Mar. 02
SY: 2011-2012PSAE/ACT
Action WordsProsper (v) – And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die. The Second Jungle Book by Kipling, Rudyard
Prospering (v) - She said, "All things are prospering with me, and I have only one wish, that there may be a heavy fall of rain, in order that the plants may be well watered. Fables by Aesop
Prosperous (adj) - Most of the characters that perform in this book still live, and are prosperous and happy. Tom Sawyer by Twain, Mark
Url web-site source for use of word variants: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/
Prosperity
An economic state of growth with rising profits
and full or near-full employment.
pross-PAIR-itty
Week 19: Feb. 27 – Mar. 02
serving or tending to provoke, excite, or
stimulate. A stimulating discussion or exciting
controversy.
SY: 2011-2012PSAE/ACT
Action Words
Provocative
pro-VOK-ah-tiv
“The artistic sculpture was considered to be quite _____________ artistically as the debate raged between the two ideas: it was a great sculpture and it was merely a rock.”
Week 19: Feb. 27 – Mar. 02
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Action WordsProvocatively (adv) – As soon as the provocatively merry strains of music began to sound, all the doorways of the ballroom were suddenly filled with men on one side and the women on the other- who with beaming faces had come to dance. War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo Provocativeness (n) - What if her rebelliousness--her excesses, provocativeness, and belligerence--are not of a frustrated and ostensibly feminist refusal to conform, but rather the beginnings of a mental illness? From bad girl to mad girl: British female celebrity, reality ... by Bell, Emma / Genders
Url web-site source for use of word variants: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/
Provocative
serving or tending to provoke, excite, or
stimulate. A stimulating discussion or exciting controversy.
pro-VOK-ah-tiv
Week 19: Feb. 27 – Mar. 02
careful and sensible decisions or actions;
marked by sound judgment.
SY: 2011-2012PSAE/ACT
Action Words
Prudent PRU-dent
“Do you really think it to be __________ for you to spend all of your money and not save any for possible emergencies?”
Week 19: Feb. 27 – Mar. 02
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Action WordsPrudently (adv) – John Dashwood now had time to consider how much there might prudently be within his power to do for them. Sense and Sensibility by Austen, Jane
Prudence (n) – Prudence dictates that if you take care of your pennies and nickels, the dollars will take care of themselves.
Prudency (n)- The European Commission is already monitoring the euro zone economies to demonstrate the necessary prudency in fiscal support measures. Gaping hole in public finances by Cyprus Mail (Cyprus)
Url web-site source for use of word variants: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/
Prudent
careful and sensible decisions or actions;
marked by sound judgment.
PRU-dent
Week 19: Feb. 27 – Mar. 02
Habitually complaining
SY: 2011-2012PSAE/ACT
Action Words
Querulous KWHERE-ooh-luss
“The tone of her voice was quite _____________ as her lips became pouty and she put here hands on her hips in protest while stamping her foot.”
Week 19: Feb. 27 – Mar. 02
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Action WordsQuerulously (adv) – "It's all very fine to say this and that," Mildred remarked querulously, "but it's jolly difficult for a girl to earn her living by herself; it doesn't make it any easier when she's got a baby. Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset
Querulousness (n)- He realized now that, even though it had moved his pity, Claire's querulousness had offended something in him. Uneasy Money by Wodehouse, Pelham Grenville
Url web-site source for use of word variants: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/
Querulous
Habitually complaining.
KWHERE-ooh-luss
Week 19: Feb. 27 – Mar. 02
“Your protestation is not convincing.” Dr. Milano remarked. “In fact, you sound more whiney, child-like, even ___________ in your response.”
Charon’s grey sharp eyes narrowed. “Do you think it _________ Dr. Milano? I mean a human trying to provoke an Elomite?”
Milano spread his hands and shrugged his shoulders. “I don’t argue your powers and am not trying to be ___________ and thus move you to anger. However, the way things ended for you and the Grigori six millenia ago I merely wish to suggest your current approach will afford you any _____________ when it comes to being successful this time around.”
prosperity querulousprudentprovocative
