All the Words Are A Stage


My recent feature articles have taken the form of lectures on different topics. Almost thirty years of classroom teaching impels me to write an interactive lesson as my feature story this week. You can respond to the questions and exercises and the answers will be forthcoming next week.

As a writer and teacher, I love words-their origins, changing meanings and uniqueness. These qualities provide plenty of opportunities for mind expanding research. I am going to divide the rest this article into different types of word exercises.

Research Tools: 1. The Acronym Finder -[ Suite101.com-- http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/educ... ]

2. On-line Dictionaries [ http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/... ]

Words taken from the names of real people- define the word and explain its relationship to the actual person:

1. Dunce:

2. Boo:

3. Derrick:

4. Martinet:

5. Mesmerize:

Acronyms: An acronym is a word formed from the initial letter or letters of the major parts of a phrase:

1. Radar:

2. Laser:

3. Cabal:

4. Scuba

5. Sonar:

Organizations (Acronyms)

1. CRASH:

2. CREEP:

3. SHAME:

4.SCOOP:

5. LOVE:

Anagrams- is a rearrangement of the letters of a word, phrase or name to form a new word or phrase. The resulting anagram should be an appropriate description of that which is being anagrammed.

1. Evil:

2. To cast pearls before Swine:

3. The eyes:

Antigram-this rearrangement leads to the antithesis of the original word:

4. Funeral

5. You come up with one-

Palindromes- is a word, phrase, sentence or verse that reads exactly the same backward or forward.

Come up with one:

Pangram -a sentence that contains all the letters of the alphabet. (the shorter the better) come up with one:

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