Week 3 Term 2 Reflection

Word Work: This week for Word Work I did Meanings, Origins and Sentences.

Word Work Week 3 Term 2

Initiative

Meaning- The Power or opportunity to act or take charge before others do.  

Origin- French  

Sentence- Use your initiative to do the right thing.  

Mirage

Meaning- an optical illusion caused by atmospheric conditions, especially the appearance of a sheet of water in a desert or on a hot road caused by the refraction of light from the sky by heated air.

Origin- Latin

Sentence-  A Mirage is coming.

Propulsion

Meaning- The Action of driving or pushing forwards.

Origin- Medieval Latin  

Sentence- The Plane cannot leave the hangar until its propulsion is fixed.

Reminiscence

Meaning- A story told about the past event remembered by the narrator.  

Origin- Late Latin

Sentence-  In other cases early costumes are preserved only as a historical reminiscence at festivities.

Renege  

Meaning- Go Back on a promise, undertaking or contract.

Origin- Medieval Latin

Sentence- Although my father made a promise to extend my curfew, he later decided to renege upon his word and ordered me home by eleven.

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