Language Arts Classroom Competition WordMasters: Grade 6 Blue
Division Jan-Feb '09 All of the words listed here will appear in
the second WordMasters Challenge, which will be held at your
school between February 2 and February 20. (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:
INTERESTS : BROAD :: TASTES : _______________________ (a.
rampant / b. acrid / c. catholic / d. engaging / e. timorous) 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 of some cate