Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Vocab. Homework Help!

Here are some helpful hints for using each vocabulary word correctly in a sentence:

1. Adversity – He faced much adversity in his life.
Faced adversity, experienced adversity, full of adversity

2. Intimidated – The dog was intimidated by his owner.
Intimidated by…

3. Appealed – The movie appealed to me, because I like love stories.
Appealed to…

4. Vain – The vain student always volunteered to be in front of the class.
vain _[noun]_ or [noun] was vain

5. Repelled – I was repelled by the disgusting smell of rotten fish.
Repelled by…

6. Melancholy – After the sad movie, everyone was rather melancholy.
melancholy _[noun]_ or [noun] was melancholy

Autobiography/biography – use as nouns
First-person/third person – The story was written in first-person.

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