G.L.Arts: Vocabulary, Spelling, Skills Tutor

Here are the vocabulary words for "The Story of an Eyewitness" by Jack London:

1. conflagration: a large destructive fire 
2. lurid: very vivid in color, creating an unpleasantly harsh or unnatural effect. 
3. contrivances: acts or objects of clever planning 
4. flanked: placed at or approaching from the side of 
5. enumeration: the act of counting or listing one by one 
6. vestiges: visible signs of something that once existed 
7. bayonets: blades that fit on the end of rifle for use in close combat 
8. flotsam: floating wreckage left by a sunken ship 
9. pall: a covering that darkens or obscures what is underneath 
10. dun: dull brownish gray 

*Create a Google Document entitled: "Vocabulary - [your name]"

**Share your Doc with me as "can edit" or "can comment"

***For each word, complete the following:

• Synonyms 
• Antonyms 
• Part of speech (verb, noun, adjective, adverb) 
• Other related forms of the word (form: formed, forming, forms, formulate, formative, formal, formally, etc.) 
• An interesting quote using the word (search for "[vocab word] quotes" or go to the goodreads or brainyquote websites and search the vocab word. 
• An original sentence that uses the word in a way that shows you know what it means and how to use it correctly. 

For the rest of class you may study and quiz each other for the Spelling Bee Test (on Thursday) or continue on SKILLS TUTOR (remember your user name and password are your Student ID # and the site is hms03).