Curriculum Vocabulary 2:14 ~ ASSIGNMENT: Write each word, its part of speech and a meaningful, grammatically perfect sentence of your own devising for each word. You do not need to write what is in italics.

1. presage, noun or verb

Noun
Verb

 1. an omen or portent

a: something that foreshadows or portends a future event : omen

b: warning or indication of the future

2. to predict using a sign or warning of (an imminent event)

a: to give an omen or warning of :  to foreshadow

b:  to foretell or predict

Example: "I thought that my excellent progress report was a presage of good semester grades."
Example:
"The dark clouds presaged tragedy.

 

2. sepulcher, noun

 

 

a stone tomb or monument in which a dead person is laid or buried.

 

 

 

Juliet's body is set on a bier in the sepulcher.

 

 

3. sovereign, noun

a) one possessing supreme power: leader

b) an independent country with its own government

 

 

A sovereign
ruler
or a
sovereign
country

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4. ambiguities, noun

  • uncertainties
  • uncertain or inexact meanings

For example, there can be a

directional sign that has

incomplete directions, with so

many ambiguities that you

can't figure out what it is

trying to tell you.

 

I see one extra arrow and no written directions. This sign sure has some ambiguities.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5. inauspicious, adjective

a. not conducive
to success

b. unpromising

 

 

The poor comments on my Progress Report
are a bit inauspicious and possibly presage poor final grades.