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Keeping a Vocabulary
Notebook

For each subject in school, reserve part of your notebook or create a digital file for words, definitions, word parts, synonyms, and other information. Notes about new words help you remember them. Here are example vocabulary notebook entries.

Example Entries

A Word

B Word Parts

C Definition

D Pronunciation

E Drawings

F Examples

G Synonyms

H Sample Sentence

Science carbohydrate (kär´-bo-hi´-drat) carbo (carbon) + hydrate (water) a molecule made up of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; the product of photosynthesis, using sunlight to make sugars from CO2 and H2O glucose is a simple carbohydrate complex carbohydrates have more complicated diagrams and take longer to digest carbohydrates provide dietary energy synonyms: sugar, starch, saccharide We should eat more complex carbohydrates.
 
Social Studies oligarchy (ol´i-gar´ke) • oligos (few) + archy (rule) • a system of government in which a small group rules and passes on power to others within the group • some oligarchies are based on wealth, but others are based on family ties, control of business or military interests, or race, as in apartheid South Africa • similar terms—aristocracy (rule by the best) and plutocracy (rule by the rich) • It may be that all systems of government become oligarchies.

Your Turn In your class notebook or a digital file, write entries for two new terms you’ve come across. Record the word, its pronunciation, a definition, and other helpful information.

 
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Additional Resources

Video: Creating Your Vocabulary Notebook

App: Vocabulary Notebook