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Say hello to a platform dedicated to industrious, yet overtasked teachers like you. Say goodbye to countless hours spent developing relevant and engaging ELA lessons. Whether you are teaching the fundamentals of grammar, creative writing skills, classic literature, or contemporary fiction, you will find thousands of activities and assessments to help you achieve a healthier work-life balance without sacrificing academic rigor.
Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew Vocabulary Games (Act 2)
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Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew Vocabulary Games (Act 2)

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Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement Act 2 of William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. A vocabulary application worksheet, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, and answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: bestow, bondmaid, bonny, coxcomb, coy, disdain, dissemble, ducat, fain, flout, gamesome, graybeard, haste, insolence, lusty, madcap, meddle, pate, perpetually, raiment, sullen, tarry, volubility, and wane. By engaging with these activities, students will: Determine the meaning of unfamiliar and complex words Consult reference materials in order to learn and verify word meanings Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences
Othello Vocabulary Games Bundle (Crossword Puzzles, Word Searches, and Application Worksheets)
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Othello Vocabulary Games Bundle (Crossword Puzzles, Word Searches, and Application Worksheets)

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Help high school students navigate William Shakespeare’s language with these vocabulary games and activities to facilitate comprehension of Othello. Alternatively, stash these materials in an emergency sub folder to keep students meaningfully engaged in the book during unexpected teacher absences. Included are 5 vocabulary application activities, 5 crossword puzzles, 5 word search games, and answer keys. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. A total of 121 words are addressed: abode, affliction, alarum, amorous, anon, balmy, base, beckon, begrimed, beguile, beseech, beshrew, bestow, boast, boon, bound, chide, chuck, clamor, conjunctive, construe, counsel, coxcomb, credulous, cudgel, dames, defunct, designment, direful, discern, discord, dispatch, dote, dull, earnestness, ebb, eminent, encave, enchafed, exhibition, exsufflicate, fain, fair, filch, forbear, forfend, forsooth, frailty, fulsome, galls, gastness, gorge, grievously, gull, haste, heartily, heathenish, hie, hither, humors, hungerly, imminent, imperious, importunity, impudent, insolent, languish, light, lip, malice, mar, mischance, murmur, mutiny, mutter, obscure, odious, oft, pains, penitent, perchance, perdition, peril, perjured, pernicious, plead, pox, prate, prologue, quarrel, quench, rash, rebuke, relish, repent, reproach, reverence, ruminate, sans, saucy, sirrah, slander, slubber, smote, solemn, strumpet, subdue, summon, thrice, timorous, treachery, trifle, unbookish, valiant, vehement, voluble, votarist, wary, wherefore, woo, and yerk. By engaging with these activities, students will: Determine the meaning of unfamiliar and complex words Consult reference materials in order to learn and verify word meanings Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences
Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew Vocabulary Games (Act 1)
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Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew Vocabulary Games (Act 1)

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Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement Act 1 of William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. A vocabulary application worksheet, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, and answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: affable, alarum, beguile, beseech, chide, counsel, countenance, din, dole, dowry, fair, fray, gale, hither, irksome, knavery, largess, noddle, pine, plead, quaff, quench, thrall, and woo. By engaging with these activities, students will: Determine the meaning of unfamiliar and complex words Consult reference materials in order to learn and verify word meanings Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences
Shakespeare's Othello Vocabulary Games (Act 5)
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Shakespeare's Othello Vocabulary Games (Act 5)

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Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement Act 5 of William Shakespeare’s Othello. A vocabulary application worksheet, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, and answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: amorous, anon, balmy, coxcomb, direful, dull, earnestness, forfend, gastness, grievously, gull, heathenish, mar, mischance, odious, peril, perjured, pernicious, quench, smote, solemn, trifle, and valiant. By engaging with these activities, students will: Determine the meaning of unfamiliar and complex words Consult reference materials in order to learn and verify word meanings Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences
Shakespeare's Othello Vocabulary Games (Act 4)
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Shakespeare's Othello Vocabulary Games (Act 4)

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Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement Act 4 of William Shakespeare’s Othello. A vocabulary application worksheet, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, and answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: abode, affliction, beckon, construe, credulous, dames, dispatch, encave, exhibition, frailty, fulsome, galls, hie, impudent, light, lip, murmur, reproach, slander, strumpet, summon, treachery, unbookish, and votarist. By engaging with these activities, students will: Determine the meaning of unfamiliar and complex words Consult reference materials in order to learn and verify word meanings Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences
Shakespeare's Othello Vocabulary Games (Act 3)
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Shakespeare's Othello Vocabulary Games (Act 3)

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Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement Act 3 of William Shakespeare’s Othello. A vocabulary application worksheet, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, and answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: begrimed, beshrew, bestow, boon, bound, chide, chuck, ebb, exsufflicate, filch, humors, hungerly, importunity, languish, mutter, oft, penitent, perchance, rash, repent, reverence, ruminate, sirrah, vehement, and wary. By engaging with these activities, students will: Determine the meaning of unfamiliar and complex words Consult reference materials in order to learn and verify word meanings Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences
Shakespeare's Othello Vocabulary Games (Act 2)
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Shakespeare's Othello Vocabulary Games (Act 2)

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Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement Act 2 of William Shakespeare’s Othello. A vocabulary application worksheet, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, and answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: alarum, base, clamor, cudgel, designment, discern, dote, eminent, enchafed, fain, fair, gorge, heartily, imperious, malice, mutiny, obscure, perdition, plead, prologue, quarrel, relish, and voluble. By engaging with these activities, students will: Determine the meaning of unfamiliar and complex words Consult reference materials in order to learn and verify word meanings Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences
Shakespeare's Othello Vocabulary Games (Act 1)
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Shakespeare's Othello Vocabulary Games (Act 1)

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Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement Act 1 of William Shakespeare’s Othello. A vocabulary application worksheet, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, and answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: beguile, beseech, boast, conjunctive, counsel, defunct, forbear, forsooth, haste, hither, imminent, insolent, pains, pox, prate, rebuke, sans, saucy, slubber, subdue, thrice, timorous, wherefore, woo, and yerk. By engaging with these activities, students will: Determine the meaning of unfamiliar and complex words Consult reference materials in order to learn and verify word meanings Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences
Hamlet Vocabulary Games for High School Bundle (Crosswords, Word Searches, and Application Worksheets)
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Hamlet Vocabulary Games for High School Bundle (Crosswords, Word Searches, and Application Worksheets)

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Help high school students navigate William Shakespeare’s language with these vocabulary games and activities to facilitate comprehension of Hamlet. Alternatively, stash these materials in an emergency sub folder to keep students meaningfully engaged in the book during unexpected teacher absences. Included are 5 vocabulary application activities, 5 crossword puzzles, 5 word search games, and answer keys. Materials delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. A total of 116 words are addressed: afflict, affront, anon, auspicious, base, beseech, beshrew, besmirch, beteem, boisterous, bough, brainish, bravery, brevity, cautel, chapless, charge, cherub, chide, cicatrice, condolement, contumely, corse, counsel, craven, credent, cudgel, dearth, discord, divulge, ducat, dup, effect, entreat, ere, fain, fair, felicity, fetters, fond, forbear, fordo, gambol, gaudy, gibber, gibe, glean, gorge, green, grizzled, gyve, hasten, heartily, heaves, hither, imminent, importunate, incensed, incorporal, infallibly, insolence, jocund, lament, lard, liegemen, malefactions, massy, melancholy, melodious, mirth, needful, ominous, orison, ostentation, palmy, palpable, pang, paragon, perchance, pernicious, perpend, pigeon-livered, pious, porpentine, portentous, prate, prithee, profane, prologue, quarrel, rash, rebuke, reechy, reign, remiss, repose, robustious, rub, scourge, scullion, skyish, softly, springe, stonish, strumpet, sultry, superfluous, suspiration, tedious, tender, tristful, truepenny, wander, wary, wittingly, and wonted. By engaging with these activities, students will: Determine the meaning of unfamiliar and complex words Consult reference materials in order to learn and verify word meanings Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences
Shakespeare's Hamlet Vocabulary Games (Act 5)
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Shakespeare's Hamlet Vocabulary Games (Act 5)

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Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement Act 5 of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. A vocabulary application worksheet, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, and answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: base, bravery, chapless, charge, cudgel, dearth, effect, felicity, forbear, fordo, gambol, gibe, gorge, infallibly, palpable, prate, profane, skyish, springe, sultry, wander, and wittingly. By engaging with these activities, students will: Determine the meaning of unfamiliar and complex words Consult reference materials in order to learn and verify word meanings Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences
Hamlet Act 5 Scene 2 Close Reading Analysis Worksheet
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Hamlet Act 5 Scene 2 Close Reading Analysis Worksheet

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Help high school students go beyond basic comprehension, explore literary devices, and improve critical thinking skills with this close reading inference worksheet covering Act 5, scene 2, of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. An answer key is included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. Consider using this resource as an in-class group activity; it may facilitate deeper conversations about characters, plot developments, and literary craft. By engaging with this close reading analysis activity, students will: Identify what the text states explicitly as well as implicitly Utilize dictionaries to ensure knowledge of word meanings Infer the intended effects of Shakespeare’s word choices and dramatic techniques Describe tone in context Explore how complex characters think, behave, interact, and develop Consider themes in context Support claims and inferences with sound reasoning and relevant evidence Write about Shakespearean drama with clarity, accuracy, and precision Come to class better prepared to discuss works of Shakespeare
Shakespeare's Hamlet Vocabulary Games (Act 4)
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Shakespeare's Hamlet Vocabulary Games (Act 4)

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Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement Act 4 of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. A vocabulary application worksheet, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, and answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: bough, brainish, cherub, cicatrice, counsel, craven, discord, divulge, dup, glean, greenly, heaves, imminent, importunate, incensed, lard, melodious, needful, ostentation, prologue, remiss, softly, superfluous, and tender. By engaging with these activities, students will: Determine the meaning of unfamiliar and complex words Consult reference materials in order to learn and verify word meanings Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences
Shakespeare's Hamlet Vocabulary Games (Act 3)
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Shakespeare's Hamlet Vocabulary Games (Act 3)

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Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement Act 3 of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. A vocabulary application worksheet, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, and answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: affront, boisterous, chide, contumely, ere, fair, fetters, hasten, incorporal, insolence, massy, orison, pang, pious, rash, reechy, reign, repose, robustious, rub, scourge, stonish, tristful, and wonted. By engaging with these activities, students will: Determine the meaning of unfamiliar and complex words Consult reference materials in order to learn and verify word meanings Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences
Shakespeare's Hamlet Vocabulary Games (Act 2)
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Shakespeare's Hamlet Vocabulary Games (Act 2)

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Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement Act 2 of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. A vocabulary application worksheet, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, and answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: afflict, anon, beshrew, brevity, ducat, entreat, fain, gyve, hither, malefactions, melancholy, ominous, paragon, perchance, perpend, pigeon-livered, prithee, quarrel, rebuke, scullion, strumpet, tedious, thrice, and wherefore. By engaging with these activities, students will: Determine the meaning of unfamiliar and complex words Consult reference materials in order to learn and verify word meanings Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences
Shakespeare's Hamlet Vocabulary Games (Act 1)
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Shakespeare's Hamlet Vocabulary Games (Act 1)

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Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement Act 1 of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. A vocabulary application worksheet, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, and answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: auspicious, beseech, besmirch, beteem, cautel, condolement, corse, credent, fond, gaudy, gibber, green, grizzled, heartily, jocund, liegemen, mirth, palmy, pernicious, porpentine, portentous, suspiration, truepenny, and wary. By engaging with these activities, students will: Determine the meaning of unfamiliar and complex words Consult reference materials in order to learn and verify word meanings Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences
Romeo and Juliet Vocabulary Games Bundle (Crossword Puzzles, Word Searches, and Application Worksheets)
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Romeo and Juliet Vocabulary Games Bundle (Crossword Puzzles, Word Searches, and Application Worksheets)

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Help high school students navigate William Shakespeare’s language with these vocabulary games and activities to facilitate comprehension of Romeo and Juliet. Alternatively, stash these materials in an emergency sub folder to keep students meaningfully engaged in the book during unexpected teacher absences. Included are 5 vocabulary application activities, 5 crossword puzzles, 5 word search games, and answer keys. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. A total of 120 words are addressed: absolve, affray, alack, aloof, ambiguity, amerce, anon, apothecary, assail, athwart, baggage, baleful, bedeck, beguiled, behoveful, beseech, beshrew, boisterous, chapless, charnel, chide, churl, conceit, corse, counsel, decree, descend, descent, detestable, discern, discourse, disperse, doff, doleful, ducat, enmity, entreat, fain, fair, fond, forbear, garish, gleek, gyves, hap, haply, haste, haughty, heavy, henceforth, hie, hoarse, idle, immoderately, inauspicious, inexorable, inundation, lamentation, languish, lenity, liege, light, loathsome, lusty, meager, mouse-hunt, moved, muffle, naught, needful, obscure, obsequy, orison, pains, parlous, pennyworth, pensive, penury, pernicious, perverse, pine, plead, portentous, pox, presage, princox, privy, procure, prorogued, provision, quarrel, rash, reeky, reign, repent, repose, runagate, scourge, sirrah, slander, slug-a-bed, smatter, soft, solace, strew, sullen, sup, tedious, tetchy, treacherous, tush, vain, vexed, wail, wander, wanny, weraday, wherefore, woo, and wot. By engaging with these activities, students will: Determine the meaning of unfamiliar and complex words Consult reference materials in order to learn and verify word meanings Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences
Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet Vocabulary Games (Act 5)
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Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet Vocabulary Games (Act 5)

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Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement Act 5 of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. A vocabulary application worksheet, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, and answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: aloof, ambiguity, apothecary, churl, descent, discern, disperse, ducat, haply, haughty, inauspicious, inexorable, liege, meager, muffle, obsequy, penury, pine, presage, privy, scourge, strew, tush, and wander. By engaging with these activities, students will: Determine the meaning of unfamiliar and complex words Consult reference materials in order to learn and verify word meanings Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences
Macbeth Vocabulary Games Bundle (Crossword Puzzles, Word Searches, and Application Worksheets)
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Macbeth Vocabulary Games Bundle (Crossword Puzzles, Word Searches, and Application Worksheets)

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Help high school students navigate William Shakespeare’s language with these vocabulary games and activities to facilitate comprehension of Macbeth. Alternatively, stash these materials in an emergency sub folder to keep students meaningfully engaged in the book during unexpected teacher absences. Included are 5 vocabulary application activities, 5 crossword puzzles, 5 word search games, and answer keys. Materials delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. A total of 121 words are addressed: abide, abjure, affliction, anon, appease, arbitrate, avaricious, avaunt, avouch, aweary, bait, bane, barren, beldam, benison, bent, bestow, blaspheme, boast, bodement, bough, brainsickly, broil, buffet, chastise, cherubin, clamor, commend, compunctious, concord, consort, deftly, desolate, dispatch, doff, dun, entreat, ere, fain, false, fantastical, firstling, fitful, foison, fry, gild, glare, gout, groom, harbinger, haste, hew, hie, holily, homely, hurly-burly, husbandry, implore, impress, incarnadine, industrious, infirm, intrenchant, kern, largess, liege, lily-livered, loon, malice, marrowless, metaphysical, mettle, mortal, mortified, multitudinous, muse, naught, obscure, pain, palpable, parricide, perchance, perilous, pernicious, pine, pious, posset, prithee, prowess, purgative, quarrel, quoth, rabble, rapt, raze, rebuke, reign, relish, repose, rue, saucy, scarcely, shadow, sirrah, sleight, spongy, stanchless, stealthy, stern, suborn, summon, swift, tarry, thither, thriftless, timely, toil, treachery, unrough, verity, and woeful. By engaging with these activities, students will: Determine the meaning of unfamiliar and complex words Consult reference materials in order to learn and verify word meanings Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences
Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet Vocabulary Games (Act 4)
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Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet Vocabulary Games (Act 4)

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Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement Act 4 of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. A vocabulary application worksheet, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, and answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: alack, behoveful, chapless, charnel, conceit, detestable, doleful, entreat, gleek, immoderately, inundation, mouse-hunt, needful, orison, pennyworth, pensive, provision, reeky, repent, slug-a-bed, solace, treacherous, wail, and wanny. By engaging with these activities, students will: Determine the meaning of unfamiliar and complex words Consult reference materials in order to learn and verify word meanings Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences
Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet Vocabulary Games (Act 3)
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Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet Vocabulary Games (Act 3)

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Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement Act 3 of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. A vocabulary application worksheet, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, and answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: absolve, affray, amerce, baggage, bedeck, beguiled, corse, decree, descend, fain, fond, forbear, garish, lamentation, lenity, naught, plead, runagate, slander, smatter, sullen, tedious, weraday, and wot. By engaging with these activities, students will: Determine the meaning of unfamiliar and complex words Consult reference materials in order to learn and verify word meanings Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences