3.26-Bell-ringer, Spelling Words, Verb Tenses

Bell-ringer: Write the following sentences and define the underlined words using context clues and prior knowledge.

1.     A plurality of the students voted to go outside for class.

2.     The polyglot could speak six different languages.

3.     During dinner, my grandma pummeled the cockroach with a chicken leg.

4.     The potent storm ripped out the power poles.

5.     My uncle thinks he is a potentate, but he actually has no power at all.

1.    agitate

2.    collision

3.    transaction

4.    solace

5.    juncture

6.    charitable

7.    deplore

8.    prohibition

9.    commemorate

10.  arduous

11.  dehydrated

12.  innate

13.  transparent

14.  tenacious

15.  intuitive