Language Arts Classroom Competition WordMasters: Grade 8 Blue
Division Jan-Feb '11 All of the words listed here will appear in
the first WordMasters Challenge, which will be held at your
school between February 1 and February 21. (Your teacher will
tell you exactly when.) The WordMasters Challenge is an analogy-
solving contest. The contest will challenge you to use the words
from your list in logical pairs that will look like this:
DISGUSTED : PULL BACK :: ATTRACTED :
_____________________________ (a. recoil / b. usurp / c. deter /
d. gravitate / e. confiscate) To do this well, you will have to
understand the exact meanings of all of your words, and you will
have to reason carefully about the relationships shown in the
pairs. Here is how you should get ready for the Challenge: After
you have learned the meanings of these words, think about
possible relationships among them. Which words have similar
meanings? Which words have nearly opposite meanings? (Of course,
some words have more than one meaning.) Think o