A strong vocabulary will help students improve all areas of communication – reading, listening, speaking, and writing. When you see a new unfamiliar word, try to find the meaning by looking at the sentence or the paragraph for context clues.
- Fallacy
- a mistaken belief, misconception
- It is a common fallacy that only men are good at math.
- a mistaken belief, misconception
- Tumultuous
- loud, noisy, excited
- Indian crickets players were given a tumultuous welcome at the airport after their world cup win.
- marked by disturbance or violence
- The tumultuous storm destroyed the whole town.
- loud, noisy, excited
- Placid
- calm and peaceful
- I like watching the placid surface of the lake.
- He has a placid temperament.
- calm and peaceful
- Haven
- a place of safety or refuge
- National Parks provide a safe haven for wildlife.
- a place of safety or refuge
- Balk
- hesitate or unwilling to accept an idea or undertaking
- You may balk when you see the estimate for replacing the windows.
- hesitate or unwilling to accept an idea or undertaking
- Undermine
- lessen the effectiveness, power, or ability of
- I don’t like it when my husband undermines me in front of our children.
- lessen the effectiveness, power, or ability of
- Vex
- annoy, irritate
- Their constant chatter vexed me during the car ride.
- annoy, irritate
- Forgo
- go without
- I decided to forgo gifts for my birthday party and asked friends to donate to charity instead.
- go without
- Transcend
- go beyond, surpass
- Music is a universal language that transcends cultural and national boundaries.
- go beyond, surpass
- Fabricate
- create, invent
- We had to fabricate a roller coaster for our science project using cardboard.
- create, invent
