AVO1101
Words denoting Swiftness vs Slowness | Crossword
Words studied: celerity, check, dawdle, dilatory, dispatch, expedite, express, flit, gradual, headlong, impetuous, instantaneous, lag, languor, lumber, mercurial, nimble, plod, retard, spurt, torrent 5-page PDF Exercises: Reading: Adagio for Hare and Tortoise; Sorting Words (Speed vs Slowness); Finding Speed & Slow words in context; Discriminating Appropriate and Inappropriate word usages; Synonyms; Antonyms; Making Connections; Researching unfamiliar words; Crossword Puzzle
 

AVO1107
River and Wind Words | Crossword
Words studied: aura, bellows, blustering, cascade, confluence, cyclone, deluge, eddy, effluent, freshet, inundate, maelstrom, tributary, vortex, meander, monsoon, squall, vane, ventilate, waft 6-page PDF Exercises: Reading: Winds - Extract from Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient; Sorting Words (Eolian vs Riverine words); Creative Writing; Exposition; Discriminating Appropriate and Inappropriate word usages; Synonyms; Fill-in-the-Blanks (Best word); Making Connections; Researching unfamiliar words; Crossword Puzzle
 

AVO1103
Words from F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
Words studied: amorphous, anaemic, arrogant, caravansary, counterfeit, elocution, florid, garrulous, grail, grotesque, incredulous, ingratiate, innuendo, meretricious, notoriety, obstinate, pasquinade, redolent, simmering, succulent, superficial, transitory 4-page PDF Exercises: Fill-in-the-blanks; Synonyms; Antonyms; Making Connections; Booklinks
 

AVO1104  
Words denoting Heaviness vs Lightness | Crossword
Words studied: alleviate, arduous, ballast, buoyancy, cumbersome, delicacy, diaphanous, ethereal, gossamer, gravity, heft, impenetrable, irrepressible, levity, levitate, massive, millstone, obese, portable, profound, unwieldy 4-page PDF Exercises: Reading: Lightness, from Italo Calvino's Six Memos for the Next Millennium; Sorting Words (Lightness vs Heaviness words); Light/Heavy words; Discriminating Appropriate/Inappropriate Usage; Synonyms; Antonyms; Spelling Alert; Making Connections; Researching unfamiliar words; Crossword Puzzle (link above)
 

AVO1105
Words denoting Pleasure and Pain
Words studied: abhorrent, affront, assail, caustic, dulcet, felicitous, gall, gratify, Glee, halcyon, harrowing, hedonism, invidious, onerous, palatable, provocation, regale, satiate, vex, voluptuous 4-page PDF Exercises: Reading: Pleasure/Pain Quotations; Sorting Words (Pain vs Pleasure words); Discriminating Appropriate and Inappropriate word usages; Synonyms; Antonyms; Making Connections; Whence pleasure is found (personal response); Researching unfamiliar words
 

AVO1106  
Words from H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds | Crossword
Words studied: aperture, articulate, complacency, concussion, contagion, desist, fecundity, fusillade, galvanize, heliograph, incessant, ineffectual, integument, irresolute, lassitude, physiology, salvation, scrutiny, sentinel, transfix, vestiges 4-page PDF Exercises: Reading from the novel; Fill-in-the-Blanks (best word); Synonyms; Parts of Speech; Etymologies; Making Connections; Crossword Puzzle (link above)
   

AVO1110  
Timely Words | Crossword
Words studied: antecedent, auspicious, contingency, contretemps, defer, diurnal, ensue, fortuitous, imminent, incidental, interim, interminable, juncture, mishap, opportune, precursor, prospective, respite, serendipity, temporal, transitory 4-page PDF Exercises: Reading from the novel; Fill-in-the-Blanks (best word); Synonyms; Parts of Speech; Etymologies; Making Connections
   

AVO1122
Here's Looking at You, Kid: Words Connotiong Sight and Blindness
Words studied: apparent, Argus, Basilisk, dazzle, discern, espionage, glimpse, hoodwink, introspection, ken, leer, limpid, lorgnette, manifestation, myopia, obfuscate, ogle, ophthalmic, panoramic, perspicacity, reconnaissance, witness 4 -page PDF Exercises: Seeing clear: definitions; Fill-in-the-blanks; Making Connections; See Better, Lear: Various short answer
   

AVO1109
Words denoting Fighting vs Conciliation | Crossword
Words studied: allay, amnesty, armageddon, armistice, ballistics, bellicose, campaign, conciliatory, contend, compromise, crusade, Detente, internecine, martial, militant, pacify, placate, propitiate, rapprochement, retaliate, siege, tactics 4-page PDF Exercises: Reading: Abou Ben Adhem; Words and their definitions; Making Connections; War and Peace (sorting words); Synonyms; Fill-in-the-Blanks (best word); Related terms; Crossword puzzle
   
 

AVO1011
Words denoting Success vs Failure
Words Studied: abortive, ace, avail, botch, circumvent, débâcle, fiasco, flash in the pan, forfeit, founder, incompetence, ineffectual, nonstarter, outflank, prevail, rout, succumb, surmount, surpass, sweep, triumph, vanquish 4-page PDF  Exercises: Fill-in-the-blanks; Sorting Words (Success vs Failure); Synonyms; Etymologies; Making Connections
 

AVO1113
Words from The Scarlet Pimpernel | Crossword
Words studied: anathema, aristocrat, bohemian, cavalier, dastardly, enigmatic, factotum, guillotine, haggard, histrionic, indefatigable, ignominious, foppish, monarchy, nonchalance, obsequious, pimpernel, republican, rubicund, vagaries, witticism 3-page PDF  Exercises: Fill-in-the-blanks; Synonyms; Making Connections; Antonyms; Crossword ( link above)

AVO1136
Words from Margaret Laurence's The Stone Angel
Words studied: carp, cauterized, chatelaine,convalescence, countenance, effusive,fettle, finagled, ignominy, inertia,intrusive, laconically, mollify, plaintive,querulous, rancor, recrimination,relinquish, sanctimonious, tenacious,unregenerate, vindictive 3-page PDF  Exercises: Fill in the blanks (definitions); Synonyms; Etymologies; Making Connections

AVO1133
Words denoting Confusion vs Clarity
Words studied: abash, addle, ambiguous, baffle, befuddle, bemuse, confound, construe, decipherment, delineate, elucidate, exacerbation, exegesis, exemplify, explicit, lucidity, pellucid, perplex, perspicious, recondite, salience, tumult 4-page PDF  Exercises: Sorting Words (Confusion vs Clarity); Discriminating Appropriate Usage; Synonyms; Antonyms; Making Connections; Anagrams

AVO1162
English Words of French Origin
Words studied: abbey, accrue, acrostic, adroit, ambergris, cabal, chauvinism, corniche, echelon, flageolet, fracas, glissade, guillotine, jetty, latrine, nacelle, nurture, russet, usurp, volute 4-page PDF Exercises: Fill-in-the-blanks (Definitions); Fill-in-the-blanks (sentences); Synonyms; Making Connections; Etymologies; Parts of Speech

AVO1146
Words Borrowed from German
Words studied: angst, autobahn, edelweiss, ersatz, gestalt, glockenspiel, hausfrau, hinterland, kaputt, katzenjammer, kindergarten, leitmotiv(f), ohm, poltergeist, pretzel, rucksack, streusel, verboten, wanderlust, weltanschauung, zeitgeis 3-page PDF Exercises: Fill-in-the-blanks; Making Connections; Discriminating Appropriate Use; Synonyms; Anagrams; Famous Germans

AVO1163
English Words of Arabic Origin
Words studied: admiral, adobe, alchemy, alfalfa, assassin, azure, bedouin, caliber, cipher, fakir, jasmine, jinni, kaffir, mocha, mullah, popinjay, saffron, tabby, talisman, tariff, typhoon, Vega, zenith
4-page PDF Exercises: Fill-in-the-blanks (Definitions); Making Connections; Etymologies; Parts of Speech; Synonyms; Discriminating Appropriate Usage; More Words of Arabic Origin 

AVO1108
Landscape Literacy | Crossword puzzle
Words studied: arable, archipelago, bayou, cladera, ecumene, escarpment, estuary, fen, floodplain, isthmus, karst, mesa, pasture, peninsula, plateau, savanna, steppe, suburbia, taiga, tundra 6-page PDF Exercises: Reading: Why Landscape Literacy?; Synonyms; Discriminating Appropriate/Inappropriate Usage; Fill-in-the-Blanks (best word); Research/Supplementary Word List; Reading with Exercises
   

AVO1127
Words from Arthur Miller's The Crucible
Words studied: affidavit, apparition, begrudge, covenant, crucible, defamation, effrontery, excommunicate, faction, gibbet, immaculate, inculcate, indictment, intimate, lechery, licentious, penitence, prodigious, providence, puritanical, theology 6-page PDF  Exercises: Reading, Fill-in-the-blanks; Synonyms; Antonyms; Etymologies; Parts of Speech; Making Connections; Crossword Puzzle

AVO1113  
Words Coined by Shakespeare | Puzzle (Fill-in-the-Blanks)
Words studied: abstemious, besmirch, dauntless, divest, domineering, dwindle, frugal, gnarled, hobnob, lacklustre, madcap, pander, perusal, promethean, rancorous, rumination, sanctimonious, tranquil, transcendence, unmitigated 4-page PDF  Exercises: Fill-in-the-blanks; Discriminating Appropriate/Inappropriate Usage; Synonyms; Making Connections; Parts of speech; Crossword Puzzle

AVO1115
Words denoting Loudness vs Faintness | Crossword | Crossword Solution
Words studied: baffle, blatant, braggart, clamorous, clarion, din, fortissimo, fulminate, murmur, obstreperous, pandemonium, plangent, purling, reticent, quiescent, resonance, shrill, squelch, stealthy, stentorian, strident, subdue, susurration, tacit, vociferous 3-page PDF  Exercises: Sorting Words (Loudness vs Faintness); Synonyms; Antonyms; Discriminating Appropriate/Inappriopriate Usage; Making Connections; Crossword

AVO1138
Nine Letter Words
Words studied: affidavit, albatross, attenuate, beguiling, beleaguer, cacoethes, cannonade, convivial, dalliance, effulgent, egregious, fiduciary, gallivant, galvanize, heinously, heuristic, illicitly, kowtowing, maladroit, mendacity, nostalgic, objurgate, pecuniary, stevedore 3-page PDF Exercises: Reading: The Importance of the Number Nine; Discriminating Appropriate Use; Fill-in-the-Blanks; Synonyms; Antonyms; Making Connections; Anagrams
 

AVO1117 This Avocabo unit may printed and submitted manually, or it may be completed using the online form fields and submitted/marked automatically. If using the online submission feature, Spelling COUNTS! Upper/Lower case is not important.
Words from Jack Kerouac's On the Road
Words studied: amenable, dichotomy, disconsolate, imprecation, irrespective, jalopy, jargon, lout, palpitate, phosphorescence, reverie, rigmarole, sardonic, seraphically, spittoon, surrealism, taciturn, tenement, vista, welter 3-page PDF  Exercises: Fill-in-the-Blanks (by definitions); Synonyms; Etymologies; Making Connections

AVO1124
Great Words for 500, Alex!
Words studied: acumen, chicanery, circumlocution, diffident, equinox, fatuous, gamete, hemoglobin, incognito, jejune, kowtow, lexicon, nihilism, omnipotent, orthography, quasar, quotidian, tautology, totalitarian, xenophobe 5-page PDF  Exercises: Definitions; Fill-in-the-Blanks; Synonyms; Jeopardy (determining word from related terms); Double Jeopardy (word lore, etymologies, etc.); Making Connections; Final Jeopardy; Trivia; Crossword Puzzle

AVO1123
Words from Around the Globe
Words studied: ambrosia, basilica, bloke, buckaroo, congolese, creole, edelweiss, fandango, geisha, germanic, goulash, haggis, henna, hindustani, janissary, peregrinate, plenipotentiary, sirocco, tisane, zionism 3-page PDF  Exercises: Fill-in-the-Blanks; Making Connections; Name the Nation (etymologies)

AVO1118
Words from Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
Words studied: beckon, billows, brazen, burden, defile, draughts, ford, forsaken, gully, heirloom, hollow, laden, plaits, precious, redoubled, scouring, spasm, stalk, stature, twilight, welled 4-page PDF  Exercises: Fill-in-the-Blanks (by definitions); Synonyms; Antonyms; Etymologies; Making Connections

AVO1135
Basic First Aid Terms
Words studied: abrasion, anaphylaxis, artery, contusion, crepitus, cyanosis, dermis, dislocation, epidermis, fibrillation, fracture, hyperglycemia, hypoglycemia, ligament, metacarpals, metatarsals, sprain, strain, tendon, triage, vein 4-page PDF Exercises: Matching (definitions); Multiple Choice; Parts of Speech; Making Connections; Understanding 'triage'; Research
   

AVO1125
Words from Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities
Words studied: abyss, apocryphal, avow, barbarous, cadaverous, clemency, eccentric, flaxen, incorrigible, insensate, languidly, magnanimous, mercenary, oblivion, resurrection, sacristan, sagacity, tyranny, vehemence, vengeance, vivacious 4-page PDF  Exercises: Fill-in-the-Blanks; Synonyms; Antonyms; Eponyms; Making Connections

AVO1128
Words from The U.S. Led War on Iraq
Words studied: blockade, bombardment, bunker, camouflage, coalition, collateral damage, combatant, embedded journalists, espionage, fedayeen, friendly fire, geneva convention, guerilla, paramilitary, preemptive strike, propaganda, refugee, shock and awe, siege, sortie 4-page PDF  Exercises: Definitions, Fill-in-the-blanks; Euphemisms of War; Synonyms; Making Connections; Word scramble; Crossword Puzzle

AVO1126
Words from Robotics
Words studied: amplification, articulate, autonomous, collimating, compliant, differential, dielectric, gyroscope, magnetometer, modulation, oscillator, piezoelectric, permeability, programmable, protocol, proximity, reflectance, resonant, specification, telemetry, torque 4-page PDF  Exercises: Fill-in-the-Blanks; Synonyms; Antonyms, Making Connections; Reading

AVO1127
Words from L. Frank Baum's Wonderful World of Oz
Words studied: bodice, boisterous, brocade, counterpane, cyclone, daunt, doublet, ermine, frock, garret, gaunt, gingham, humbug, indignantly, mar, plait, reproachful, settee, solder, spire, sward 6-page PDF  Exercises: Fill-in-the-Blanks; Synonyms; Antonyms; Parts of Speech; Etymologies; Making Connections; Reading; Crossword Puzzle

AVO1134
Words from Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
Words studied: burgeoned, carapace, chronic, decanted, fulminate, hypnopaedia, incarnadine, kiva, malignant, manifested, moribund, palpitating, pneumatic, rapture, respectively, semblance, stupefied, unorthodoxy, viscose, viviparous, zealous 4-page PDF Exercises: Reading: Fill-in-the-Blanks; Synonyms; Antonyms; Making Connections
 

AVO1144
Words from Heinrich Harrer’s Seven Years in Tibet
Words studied: antediluvian, benevolent, bivouacked, cleft, debouched designations, deleterious, despondent, disheartened, emaciated, eminence, evocation, gesticulating, obeisance, petered, poleaxed, Ramshackle, rarefied, reverently, submissiveness, torrent 3-page PDF Exercises: Fill-in-the-blanks; Synonyms; Antonyms; Making Connections
 

AVO1145
Words from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
Words studied: abhorrence, acquiesce, bestow, deign, derive, eminent, exuberance, felicity, frivolous, gallantry, lamentation, licentiousness, profligate, proxy, refute, repugnant, simpleton, tincture, villainous 4-page PDF Exercises: Fill-in-the-blanks; Synonyms; Antonyms; Making Connections
 

AVO1147
‘A’ words
Words studied: abdicate, accede, adherent, affable, agrarian, alacrity, altruism, ambulatory, anomalous, antipathy, aphorism, arcane, artifice, aspersion, assonance, attenuate, austere, averse, axion, azure 3-page PDF Exercises: Fill-in-the-blanks; Synonyms; Antonyms; Making Connections
 

AVO1148
Words Denoting Goodness vs. Badness
Words studied: abject, apostasy, benevolent, bona fide, candid, contemptible, derogatory, fidelity, fraud, inviolate, jilt, Judas kiss, laxity, nepotism, perfidy, probity, punctilious, rectitude, scrupulous, staunch, turpitude, veracious 3-page PDF Exercises: Sorting words; Fill-in-the-blanks; Discriminating Appropriate Use; Fill-in-the-Blanks; Etymologies; Making Connections

AVO1149
Words denoting Strength vs Weakness
Words studied: adamantine, brace, brawny, cripple, debility, delicate, feeble, flimsy, fortify, fragile, invincible, languish, puny, rickety, robust, stout, strapping, sturdy, totter, validate, worn 3-page PDF Exercises: Sorting words, Fill-in-the-blanks; Antonyms; Making Connections
 

AVO1151
20 Great Words for the Real World
Words studied: abstemious, belie, moiety, obsequious, deleterious, enervate, evanescent, facetious, filibuster, hegemony, hubris, kinetic, pecuniary, precipitous, soliloquy, suffragist, usurp, vacuous, winnow, ziggurat 4-page PDF Exercises: Fill-in-the-blanks; Identifying Appropriate Word Usage, Antonyms; Making Connections; Etymologies
 

AVO1164
Words from Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter
Words studied: canker, deleterious, despondency, dexterity, edifice, egotism, endeavour, extenuating, farthingale, gesticulation, irreverent, misanthropy, peremptory, physiognomy, potentate, propinquity, rankle, sojourn, transgress, transitory, unscrupulous, vehement
4-page PDF Exercises: Fill-in-the-blanks; Synonyms; Antonyms, Parts of Speech; Making Connections

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AVO1129
Words Denoting Birth and Death
Words studied: cadaverous, congenital, gentry, immortal, innate, macabre, martyr, moribund, mortician, nascence, necrophobia, noblesse, nullipara, obituary, parity, parous, parturition, renascence, rigor mortis, samsara
 

AVO1130
Words Denoting Solidity vs Rarity
Words studied: cavernous, clot, coagulate, cohesion, compact, compress, concrete, congeal, constipate, delicate, dense, dilate, ether, flimsy, impermeable, precipitate, rarity, slight, spongy, tenuity, tenuous

AVO1131
Words from Simon Winchester's The Professor and the Madman
Words studied: addendum, amanuensis asylum, bedlam, circumstantial, egregious, emancipated, frolicked, haggard, heinous, lexical, lodestone, martinet, ordination, parsimonious, sanity, serendipity

AVO1132
Words from The World of Art
Words studied: chiaroscuro, collage, complementary, foreshortening, formalism, gradation, ground, highlights, impasto, intensify, Limner, model, motif, perspective, resist, seascape, slip, stippling, tesserae, vanishing point, wash , kitch

AVO1133
The Rhetoric of Politics
Words studied: appropriation, charismatic, cloture, conservative, constitution, convention, hearing, leak, liberal, lobby, logrolling, partisan, patronage, platform, portfolio, pundit, referendum, spin, statutes, whip

AVO1134
The Language of Economics
Words studied: assets, cartel, conglomerate, currency, depreciation, embargo, entrpreneur, equilibrium, externalities, franchise, inflation, infrastructure, liquidity, merger, monopoly, recession, speculation, subsidy, tariffs, trade-off

AVO1135
Words from Robertson Davies's
The Cunning Man
Words studied: alveolitis, ameliorative, assemblages, cardiomyopathy, cirrhosis, contentious, coulisses, derision, drolleries, efficacious, emollient, hippocrates, ineptitude, infallibly, inveterate, monocle, pugnacious, rhetorician, sanctified, sinuosity, sovereignty

Meteorological Words
advection, convection, orographic, adiabatic, barometric, condense, evaporate, cumuliform, lenticular, stratiform, Coriolis effect,gradient, isographic, isobaric, Isothermal, laminar, turbulent, Troposphere,stratosphere, dewpoint, supercooled, occluded

Nautical Words
current, conn, shroud, azimuth, garland, fid, leeway, moor, ballast, pontoon, port (1. safe haven and 2. left), portage,squadron, tack, tackle, underway, yard, disembark, tiller, list, broach, scuttle, submerge

Equine Words
Absorbent, Anaemia, Bog Spavin, Bridle, Conformation, Crupper, Farrier, Field Master, Gelding, Girth, Kimberwick pelham, Martingale, Numnah, Pritchel, Stifle, Sulky, Throatlatch, Withers, Zebroid, Zedonk

Words Denoting Highness-Lowness
depleted, elevated, eminent, exalted, great, humble, inadequate, lofty, mediocre, modest, quiet, scant, shoddy, soaring, soprano, sparse, squat, steep, sunken, towering, treble

Stock Market Words
bankruptcy, bear market, blue chip, board lot, bond, capital, consumer price index, depreciation, dividend, equity, index, inflation, interest, liquidity, portfolio, profits, recession, speculation, shareholder, stock, stockbroker, stock option, stock exchange