Academic Vocabulary

7th Grade – Unit 3 – Week 2

Academic Vocab Squares

• 2 definitions – one given, the other simplified in your own words

• Description/characteristics – information about that term that helps you understand what it is

• Examples – what is an example or synonym of this term?• Non Examples – what is an example of what it

isn’t/antonym• Word families (description box) - write words that fall

within that word family (analyze, analyst, analysis)• Use the word in a sentence (in middle circle) – use the

word correctly in a sentence you create.

Word 1Root (n)

Root

Look up the definition in the glossary of the green writing book.

What words belong in this word family?

What could be a synonym and an antonym? (look in thesaurus, also use examples from the glossary definition)

• Write your own def• Use the word in a

sentence• Word family or other

characteristics/facts• Examples (synonyms)• Non Examples (antonyms)

Word 2

Affix (n)A/ffix

Look up the word in the dictionary.

What are synonyms? What are antonyms?

What words are in the word family?

• Write your own def• Use the word in a

sentence• Word family or other

characteristics/facts• Examples (synonyms)• Non Examples

(antonyms)

Word 3

Research (v)Re/search

Look up the definition in the dictionary

What is an synonym? Antonym?

Word Family?

• Write your own def• Use the word in a

sentence• Word family or other

characteristics/facts• Examples (synonyms)• Non Examples

(antonyms)

Word 4Source (n)

Source

The New York Times was the source I used the most to

support my argument.

Look up in the dictionary according to how I use it in the

sentence above.

Find synonyms and antonyms in the thesaurus.

What are words in the word

family?

• Write your own def• Use the word in a

sentence• Word family or other

characteristics/facts• Examples (synonyms)• Non Examples

(antonyms)