Spelling/Vocabulary Words Week 5

Name ______Period _____ Spelling/Vocabulary Words – Week 5

1. This is an adjective that means many, abundant, or plentiful. This word has a Latin root that means “a number”. I have ______fiction books in my classroom; I also have ______illustrated books in my classroom. ___um______(8 letters)

2. This adjective has a multitude of fabulous synonyms such as splendid, excellent, wonderful, and spectacular. This word comes from an Old French word merveillous which means "causing wonder”. When you go home after school today, you can tell your parents that you had a ______time in English class because you were able to grow your linguistic data pool. m___ r ______l ______(9 letters)

3. You are in a dangerous, unsafe, and hazardous situation if you are swimming with sharks. The Latin word for this is periculosus, meaning "dangerous, hazardous". p______s (8 letters)

4. A paragraph of random, jumbled, assorted, or mi______sentences would not have any focus at all. It is difficult for the reader to comprehend or understand the main idea if the writer has a muddled or ______group of arbitrary sentences. (13 letters)

5. Wanting to punish Sisyphus for chronic deceitfulness, the Greek gods condemned him to a futile and hopeless task of continuously rolling a boulder to the top of a mountain, only to have the boulder roll back down again under its own weight. The exhausting, laborious, physically demanding, energy-consuming, st______task was supposed to teach Sisyphus a lesson. (7 letters)

6. What is ludicrous, preposterous, absurd, silly, outlandish, or ri______to one person, could be considered perfectly normal to another. That is why there is the saying, “To each, his own.” It means that everyone gets to make his or her own choices. (10 letters)

7. This word comes from the Latin word contagio which means ‘contact’. The flu, a cold, and the chickenpox are all examples of spreadable, infectious, communicable, con______illnesses.

(10 letters)

8. According to www.dictionary.com, this word literally means, “characterized by rigor; rigidly severe or harsh, as people, rules, or discipline”, but today many people use it to mean mentally challenging or thought-provoking. Teachers are supposed to design rig ______activities to help you grow Name ______Period _____ your brain. Completing a Sudoku puzzle or a difficult crossword puzzle may be considered ______activities. (8 letters)

9. Sweaty palms, a rapidly beating heart, and butterflies in a person’s stomach are all signs that the person is feeling anxious, worried, uneasy, and ne ______. (7 letters)

10. This adjective is a more sophisticated synonym for spelling word number one. This word comes from the Latin word copia, which means "an abundance, ample supply, profusion, plenty". c______i___ u___ (7 letters)