1.4-Bell-ringer, Spelling Activity

Bell-ringer: Create an original sentence for each of the words below. Your sentences must be at least ten words long.

1. fiasco- n. complete failure

2. fishmonger- n. a salesperson of fish

3. fluctuate- v. to change continually

4. frugal- adj. not wasteful; cheap
5. gamester- n. a gambler

Spelling Activity
Directions: Write down the spelling word for each of the clues below. Make sure you spell each word correctly. Do this on your own sheet of paper.

1.     This word, from Old French, is the opposite of “tranquility.”

2.     Adverb form of a word meaning “clandestine.”

3.     Derived from a Medieval Latin word meaning “to a point.”

4.     This word is the combination of a prefix that has negative force on the word and a word meaning capable of speaking

5.     Comes from a medieval Latin word meaning “to look closely at”

6.     Contains a suffix that transforms verbs to nouns, means “tenant”

7.     Means “to come to understand absent any reasoning”

8.     Root word is the Latin word for “worthy”

9.     In falconry, it means “untamed;” in all other instances, it means gaunt or wild

10.   A Latin derived word meaning “to enslave”

11.    Derives from the Greek word for “hidden”

12.  Antonym of the word unusual

13.   Adverb form of a word that is opposite of a word meaning “capable of producing the desired effect”

14.   Word that means to reduce to powder

15.    Antonym of one of the other spelling words

Spelling Words

1.       Accustomed

2.     Apprehension

3.       Cryptic

4.       Efficient

5.       Haggard

6.     Inarticulate

7.     Indignant

8.       Ineffectually

9.     Intuition

10.   Occupant

11.   Perspective

12.   Pulverize

13.   Punctual

14.   Stealthily

            15.   Subjugate