Vocabulary Worksheet: Accelerate

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  Today's word of the day is "Accelerate".

  Let's imagine this is the sentence where you found this word. "His truck accelerated toward the stop sign". What position does the word "accelerate" take? It stands on the second or the verb position. So, the truck did something toward the stop sign. But what?

  Now we are going to grab our blank Vocabulary Worksheet and prepare to take notes. You can download your free copy on the link below the video.

  Now we find the word "accelerate" in the dictionary. And it is a verb! We are like, I knew it already :) It means "go faster". So, he sped up toward the stop sign. Uh oh, I don't think it is going to end well.

  Now let's look for synonyms. The words, we can replace "accelerate" with, if we forget how to spell it. To hurry, to speed up and to increase speed. The antonym is "to slow down". We can yell: "Accelerate! Don't slow down!" As an expression I picked "to accelerate our efforts".

  Let's write down a couple of the sentences with the word "accelerate".
We learn better when we do things ourselves. That is why I included the link for you to download your own copy of Vocabulary Worksheets. Just click the link below the video, and have fun filling it out :)