Vocabulary Challenge

Vocabulary Challenge

Visit the Online Etymology Dictionary website at https://www.etymonline.com/

Type each of the following words into the search bar and then write down the definition (meaning) of the word and its history.

• pandemic
• furlough
• quarantine
• love
• hope
• brave
• isolate
• friend
• information
• research

I have done the first one for you:

Pandemic means of diseases ‘incident to a whole people or region’. History: 1600s, from Latin pandemus and Greek pandemos.

Year 7 – choose one word from the list and write it in a sentence.

Year 8 - choose two words from the list and write each one in a sentence (two sentences!)

Year 9 - choose three words from the list and write each one in a sentence (three sentences!)

Good luck.