Vocabulary

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Special note: The vocabulary is the core of both final exams (Jan & June).

Link to Google Doc Vocabulary Project

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INTERESTING HISTORY & PERSPECTIVE:

English has 616,500 entries in the Oxford English Dictionary. This compares with a vocabulary of about 185,000 words for German, 130,000 for Russian, and 100,000 for French. the average English speaker possesses a vocabulary of 10,000 to 20,000 words, but actually uses only a fraction of that, the rest being recognition or recall vocabulary. These 210 new words represents at most 1/50th of your life's vocabulary aquisition.

EXTRA CREDIT! Vocabulary discovery credit is earned when one of our words is found outside of class, either written and spoken. If written, bring in the example; if spoke, bring a note.

Written words earn 2 points; spoken words earn 1 point; every 8 points earns an extra A of credit. 

The word must appear serendipitiously in context. It cannot be highlighted from an index or be part of a dictionary. Words from computers and the Internet in any form do not count. Computer-generated words have been banned by the Billie Law.