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.
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.
Unfortunately not the ones with chocolate chips.
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