Related Words:  magnitude; magnificent; magnanimous (noble or honorary); magnify; magnifying glass 

Personal Connection: 

I think my best friend is magnificent.

Language Connection: 大 (da)

Related Words: introduction ; air ducts ; aqueduct; conduct; abduct ; deduction ; reduce / reduction ; educate ; produce / product ; induct 

Personal Connection: 

I wrote an introduction to my story I’m writing

铅 (qian)

Related Words:  revolution, revolve, evolution, convoluted (turning into confusion or chaos), devolve (to evolve backwards), involve.

Personal Connection: over winter break involved myself in more activities.

滚 (Guen)

Related Words:  durable, duration (a length of time), endure, endurance, obdurate, duress (a difficult time), indurated (to be hardened like clay or to be resentful / hardened against something). 

Personal Connection: 

In gym class i always have to endure the exercises.

Language Connection: 难 (nan)

Related Words: dilemma, plight, predicament, “in a pickle” (idiom). 

Personal Connection: 

I was in a quandary when I felt sick but my cousin from Florida is coming over and i should spend time with her since its only 4 days but i chose to stay home.

Language Connection: 困惑 (kun huo)

Related Words:  inflection (bending in tone, voice), flexible, deflect (to bend attention away from), fluctuate (to bend or change), reflect / reflection (bending light). 

Personal Connection: in 6th grade, I remember learning about reflection in science

Language Connection: 弯曲 (wan qu)

Related Words:  recede, succession, proceed, procession, succeed, access, exceed, excess.

Personal Connection: in the airport, its always so scary to walk through the metal detector, but the fear and anxiety ends when the guard lets you proceed without saying anything

Language Connection: 移动 (yi dong)

Related Words:  rejoice, triumphant, revel, jubilate. 

Personal Connection: I exulted when I saw my test score in math.

Language Connection: 欢腾 (huan teng)

Related Words: factory, manufacture, artifact, facet (a side of something), efface (to erase or remove), factor, facility, facile (easily achieved)

Personal Connection: one time i was reading and i had to search up what facile meant, i guess know i know.

Language connection: 作 (zuo)

Related Words:  dissect, intersect, intersection, bisect (cut in two), segment(ation), insect, transect (to cut across), vivisection (cutting into living animals to study organs, tissues or diseases). 

Personal Connection: Last year in 7th grade, we had to dissect a frog..

Language connection: 切 (qie)

Related Words:  occur, arise, ensue, befall

Personal Connection: whenever i read books, I’m always super excited for what transpires next

Language connection: 发散 (fa san)

Related Words:  confine, definition, determine, terminate, finality, infinite, interminable (endless), finial (the topmost, the best). 

Personal Connection:Meaning: end or boundary

Related Words:  confine, definition, determine, terminate, finality, infinite, interminable (endless), finial (the topmost, the best). 

Personal Connection: My love for books written by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu is infinite

Language connection: 结尾 (jie wei)

Related Words:  vitality, vitamin, vivid (lively), revive, survive(al), revitalize, vivacious (full of life), vivisection (surgery on living animals).

Personal Connection: when i was little id take vitamins so i can grow up healthier.

Language Connection: sen

Related Words:  reject, relinquish, resign, renounce

Personal Connection: it is difficult for me to abdicate the help my friend asked me for.

Language connection: 放弃 (fanqi)

Related Words:  

-malicious (causing harm or evil), 

-malignant (harmful), 

-dismal (in a bad or gloomy mood), 

-malnutrition, 

-malevolent (a character or person who acts in evil ways)

-malice (bad intent)

Personal Connection: 

Whenever I give my friend a +4 or a skip in Uno, they always give me a malicious words:(

Language Connection:
不好 (bu hao)

Meaning: against

Related Words: 

-contrary

-contradict(ion)

-contraband

-control

-contrast

Personal Connection: I can always remember video game lore(story) but on the contrary, I can never remember any of my school subjects:(

Language Connection: 相反 (xiang fan)

Meaning: unable or unwilling to believe something

Related Words:  

Personal Connection: 

Adalin in incredulous >:(

Language Connection: 难以 (Bù xìn)

Related Words:  

-polygon (a shape with many sides)

-polytheism (belief in many gods)

-polynomial (math expression with many terms

-polynesia (the geographic area with many islands)

-polychromatic (having many different colors)

Personal Connection: 许多 (XuDuo)

A few days ago, I learned of a new sexuality called polysexual, it’s like pansexual but with extreme preferences.

Related Words:  

-static (lacking in movement, action, or change)

-statue

-stature (how tall one stands)

-stationary (not moving)

-status (one’s social standing)

-statement (one’s opinion, where they “stand”)

Personal Connection: 

When one of my friends visited America, we took her to the Statue of Liberty.

Language Connection: 站立 (zhangli)

Related Words:  

Personal Connection: 

When I was reading my book, (abrv erha) the main character has a fallacy on his shizun(teacher but in martial arts) and it hurts me so much to read about it.

Language Connection: 谬论 (Miùlùn)

Related Words: 

-omnipotent: all powerful

-omniscient: a narrator that knows the feelings of all characters

-omnipresent: existing in all places, all at once

-omnivorous: eating both plants and animals, all species

-omnigenous: all kinds or types

My good friend Lily is trying to convince everyone to read omniscient reader’s viewpoint! It’s a great novel but it’s getting out of hand!1!!1!1!1!1!!1!1!1!!1!!

Language Connection: 全部 (Quánbù)

Related Words:  

-reform (to change the shape of something)

-transformation (to move from one shape to another)

-conformity 

-formation

-formula

-malformed (badly shaped)

Personal Connection: 
Sometimes in algebra, we get new formulas. The formulas are always so hard to remember.

Language Connection: 形状 (Xíngzhuàng)

Related Words:  

-illuminate (to light up)

-bioluminescence (glowing light)

-luminary (someone considered an expert for their intelligence or brightness)

-luminiferous (giving off light, producing light)

-luminous (the state of being light) 

Personal Connection: When I travelled to my dad’s hometown, at night, he’d catch fireflies for me to see

Language Connection: 光 (Guāng)

Related Words:  

Personal Connection: I invariably text my friends.

Language Connection: 一直 (Yīzhí)