Our Dictionary

Illuminated manuscripts from St. James-Assiniboia School Division

 In the style of an illuminated manuscript, we will be creating a dictionary with the other grade 6 classes.

Here is an actual dictionary entry. Your entry won't need the plural information (How to use the word) or the origin information (Word Origin), 

For your dictionary entry
-Do 2 Words from the letter(s) you are given
-Is the word a noun, a verb, both, or . . . ? (1pt)
-Define the word  (could be several definitions) (2pts)
-Use the word in an example sentence (2pts)
-CORRECT spelling and grammar, this is a dictionary after all (2pts)
-Artistry (3pts)

Step 1-Blog below the letters you have been assigned.

Step 2-Using a program that will help with the editing, like Word, create your entries. 

Example Chip-Noun  Meaning-A smaller version of something larger. 'He is a chip of the old block.'

Here is Kevin's dictionary from the book we are reading The Mighty.

FREAK’S DICTIONARY

A

AARDVARK, a silly-looking creature that eats ants

AARGH, what the aardvark says when it eats ants

ABACUS, a finger-powered computer

ABSCISSA, the horizontal truth

ALGORITHM, maths with a rock-‘n’-rock beat

ALIMENTARY, what Sherlock Holmes said to Dr. Watson

about where the food disappeared

ALLEGORY, a peculiar kind of story that’s often pretty

gory

ARCHETYPE, what Max sees when he dreams of

architects

ARITHMETIC, inventing with numbers

ARMOUR, a robotlike suit worn by knights of old

B

BIG LIE, ignorance is bliss

BIONIC, a way to improve on the human condition

BLOVIATE, to expel hot air in the form of words

BOATS, shoes big enough to fit Maxwell Kane

BOOK, a four-letter word for truth serum

BRAIN, a muscle that improves with exercise

BUTTHEAD, one who can sneeze a hot dog through

his nose

C

CAMOUFLAGE, how a camel blends into the desert

CIGARETTE, something that should be obscene, not smoked

COPACETIC, the Fair Gwen’s word for “everything is cool”

CRETIN, another name for Blade

CRITTERS, small, irritating children, also known as rug rats

D

DEMEANOUR, the meaner your face, the worse your

demeanour

DICTIONARY, a source of knowledge, fun, and rude jokes

DOWN UNDER, a land far away in Maxwell’s basement

DYAD, another word for Max and Kevin

DYNE, unit of energy needed to move a gram one

centimetre per second per second

E

EDIFICATION, education that tastes good

ERG, a measure of energy equal to one dyne per

centimetre

EXCALIBUR, a sword with magic powers

F

FEALTY, loyalty with an “F”

FOLDEROL, Grim’s word for nonsense

FOOD, fuel for humans, preferably so-called junk or UFO

FOOZLE, to make a stupid mistake

FORNAX, a cool-sounding constellation

FORMICIDAE, a type of insect never found in Kevin’s pants

FURFURACEOUS, covered with dandruff

G

GADZOOKS, what Grim says when surprised

GALAHAD, son of Lancelot, finder of the Holy Grail

GOON, a four-letter word for Max in a bad mood

GRAM, a sweet lady of light

GRIM, a gentleman of the old school, before they tore

it down

GRUEL, whatever you want more of

H

HABERDASHER, a person who chases after windblown hats

HAIKU, versification by the quantum mechanic

means numberless sum

HAMMERHEAD, a know-it-all

HERSTORY, the past, from the female point of view

HIEROGLYPHICS, Max’s handwriting

HISTORY, the past, from the male point of view

HOLUS-BOLUS, all at once

HUMAN, an improbable, imperfect creature

I

IAPETUS, a cool-sounding moon that orbits Saturn

ICARUS, a high-flyer, as in “to do an icarus”

ICHTHYOLOGY, the study of icky foods, for instance fish

IDEA, a seed you plant in your head

IGNEOUS, too hot to eat

INCANDESCENT, an excellent idea

INTERGALACTIC, out of this world

J

JABBAWOCKY, the language of Jabba the Hut

JILLION, millions and millions

JITTERBUG, a nervous cockroach

JOCULAR, amusingly athletic

JOCULARITY, a joke made by a jock

JOULE, a measure of energy equal to ten million ergs

JURASSIC, cool, excellent, what the Fair Gwen calls

“far-out”

K

KAZOO, a place where weird-sounding musical instruments

are kept in cages

KEVIN, a unit of measurement equal to 70 centimetres

KINETICS, the study of small families

KNIGHT, rhymes with bright and fight and right

KONG, another word for falling down

L

LACRIMATION, an emotional display to be avoided

LAGOON, a French gangster

LANCELOT, King Arthur’s bravest knight

LEXICOGRAPHY, what Webster invented, Kevin perfected

LIBRARY, where they keep the truth serum, and the magic

carpets

LIFTOFF, what happens when you open a book

LIMERICK, a mighty dude called Max,

saved his pal from bad attacks,

then they conquered the world,

with banner unfurled,

and time left over for snacks

M

MAGNESIUM, the white sparkles in skyrockets

MASSIVES, fat heads who assume that television tells the

truth

MATHS, you have nothing to fear but maths itself

MAX, a unit of measurement equal to 190 centimetres and

still growing

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MEGAPOD, Max’s shoe size

MIDGET, a word used by people with small minds

MUCIFEROUS, any disgusting food, as in muciferous tapioca

N

NANOSECOND, one-billionth of a second

NEANDERTHALS, what we all were before plumbing was

invented

NICOTINE, a toxic waste of time

NONILLION, millions of septillions

O

OBFUSCATE, a needlessly confusing word for needlessly

confusing

OBSTINATE, Kevin when he knows he’s right

ODORIFEROUS, sneaker perfume

OLFACTORY, where they manufacture smells

ORNITHOPTER, a big word for mechanical bird

P

PERCIVALE, a knight who saw the Holy Grail

PHYSICS, what matters to energy

POSTULATE, when you presume to assume

POTASSIUM CHLORATE, the womp in a skyrocket

POTASSIUM NITRATE, the bang in a skyrocket

PRIMORDIAL, the good old days

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PRIMORDIAL OOZE, boring conversation about the good old

days

Q

QUADRILLION, more than a billion, less than a quintillion

QUANTIC, more than enough, as in “quantic amounts of

carrots”

QUANTUM, imaginary sums of impossible numbers

QUEST, an adventure in which you have to use your

imagination

QUINTILLION, more than a quadrillion, less than a septillion

R

READING, beaming up into books

RELATIVITY, the study of mysterious relatives

ROBOTICS, the science of designing and building robots

ROBOT, a mechanical entity, sometimes endowed with

human characteristics

ROUND TABLE, where King Arthur passes out the snack food

S

SAUROPOD, a vegan

SEISMIC, so exciting it makes you vibrate

SEPTILLION, billions of billions

SPASTIC, how the Fair Gwen talks when she’s nervous

STRONTIUM NITRATE, the blue in a skyrocket

T

TELEMETRY, how to make nurses jump every time

you sneeze

TELEVISION, the opiate of the massives

TELLURIAN, another word for earthling

TIME MACHINE, your imagination

TRACHEOTOMY, a unique method of whistling the “Star

Trek” theme

TROGLODYTE, one who hates books

TUBILIFEROUS, splendid, close to perfect

U

UFOLOGY, see under food; the study of the Unidentified

Frying Objects

UNICORN, a horse who makes a point

V

VAMOOSE, what you say to a moose when you want it to leave

VANQUISH, to defeat in battle, preferably with dragons

VEGAN, a human sauropod

VISCOUS, a thick, vicious liquid

W

WATT, a measure of electricity equal to one joule per

second

WRITING, talking on paper

X

XYLOID, another word for blockhead

Y

YONDER, a place that always lies over the next horizon

Z

ZAG, what you do after you zig

ZED, a Z in England

ZEST, the zing in orange

ZIG, what you do before you zag

ZING, what you taste when you bite into an orange

ZIT, adolescent eruption, not to be confused with teenage

volcano

ZOO, an eighth-grade English class