1. Vocabulary Workshop
Unit 2

2. NUNC/NOUNC “to announce”
Enunciate: verb
To pronounce or articulate
The speaker at graduation enunciated each student’s name correctly.
Renounce: verb
To reject by declaration
The defendant renounced the judge’s guilty verdict.

3. Pronouncement: noun An official announcement
Woodbridge Township made a pronouncement that bullying will not be tolerated.

4. VOC/VOK “to call” Invoke: verb Provocative: adjective
To call on for support
Eli Manning invoked Coach Coughlin for help on offensive plays.
Provocative: adjective
Causing disturbance or excitement
The provocative commercial for the new Ford Mustang was pulled from television.

5. Revoke: verb To make invalid; deactivate
If you get too many points while driving, your license will be revoked.

6. FA “to speak” Ineffable: adjective Infantile: adjective Indescribable
The landscape on top of the mountain was ineffable, too beautiful for words.
Infantile: adjective
Childish; immature
The rude behavior between the two boys was infantile and immature.

7. Affable: adjective Easy to converse with; friendly
Sandy Cheeks is an affable character.

8. DIC/DICT “to say, to tell”
Edict: Noun
An official order
The mayor ordered an edict to help Hurricane Irene victims whose homes flooded.
Indict: Verb
To charge with a crime; accuse
The criminal was indicted on three counts of burglary.

9. Dictum: noun A formal or authoritative statement
Congress declared a dictum on the status of the war in Afghanistan.

10. Conjunctions A word that joins two parts of a sentence and but or nor
for
yet so
although
because
since
unless

11. Correlative Conjunctions
Correlative conjunctions are tag-team conjunctions. They come in pairs, and you have to use both of them in different places in a sentence to make them work.
both/and Ex: I’ll have both the cheesecake and the frozen hot chocolate.
whether/or Ex: I didn’t know whether you’d want the cheesecake or the frozen hot chocolate, so I got you both.
either/or Ex: I want either the cheesecake or the frozen hot chocolate.
neither/nor Ex: Oh, you want neither the cheesecake nor the frozen hot chocolate? No problem.
not/but not only/but also Ex: I see you’re in the mood not for dessert but appetizers. Ex: I’ll eat them both - not only the cheesecake but also the frozen hot chocolate.