Contextual Vocabulary Acquisition: words and contexts

1. Nouns:
   • acapnotic
   • aphelion
   • bartizan
   • brachet
   • cantora
   • cat
     • see Ehrlich 1995
     • Spring 2003 cat and "stender" demos
   • ceilidh
   • detritus
   • dossier
   • estuary
   • evidence
   • hackney
     • see Ehrlich 1995
     • Spring 2003 hackney demos
   • harbinger
   • hummock
   • hysteria
   • impasse
   • jabberwock
   • joust
     • see Ehrlich 1995
     • Spring 2003 joust demos
   • juggernaut
   • kolper
   • labyrinth
   • maker
   • maul
   • oam
   • pateroller
   • phalacrosis
   • pondokkie
   • Pyrrhic victory
   • proliferation
   • proximity
   • quarrel
   • sagacity
   • sedative
   • sedum
   • tomato (Spring 2003 demo)

2. Verbs:
   • augur
   • comport
   • cripple
   • dress
     • see Ehrlich 1995
     • see Rapaport & Ehrlich 2000
   • foist
   • fold
   • joust
     • see Ehrlich 1995
     • Spring 2003 joust demos
   • perambulate
   • proliferate
   • pry
   • quail
   • ravage
   • smite
     • see Ehrlich 1995
     • see Rapaport & Ehrlich 2000

3. Adjectives:
   • dour
   • drenched
   • execrable
   • gnomic
   • importunate
   • Pyrrhic (treated as part of the complex NP "Pyrrhic victory")
   • sardonic
   • taciturn
   • tatterdemalion
   • xeric

4. Adverbs:
   • in the red

5. More CVA passages.

6. Kibby, Michael (2006), CVA Texts for Rapaport's Seminar

7. CVA passages for which we have think-aloud verbal protocols.

8. Websites for other words.

9. Lists of target words:
   • for secondary-school students
   • for middle-school students

10. Words I Learned from David Foster Wallace