Tag Archives: building vocabulary/conceptual knowledge

Here is a context clues worksheet on the verb emanate. It is used both intransitively and transitively; it means respectively (intransitively and transitively, that is), “to come out from a source <a sweet scent emanating from the blossoms>” and “emit <she seems to ~ an air of serenity>.” This is still a word in relatively common use. It’s hard to imagine a reason why high school graduates should not be in possession of this word and its meaning.

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Starting out this already warm Wednesday morning, here is a context clues worksheet on the adjective effusive. This is a useful, but to my ear little-used, word, which is too bad. It means, especially for the purposes of the context clues on this worksheet, “marked by the expression of great or excessive emotion or enthusiasm.”

Maybe people just don’t effuse anymore. And that is too bad as well.

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