Vocabulary University® Election Campaign Word Puzzle Exercises

Write a 12 Word Story using the "CANDIDATE SAM" comic strip words.

Additional election-related words from which to make sentences are:

petition, ballot, pollster, primary, voters, front runner, straw poll, audience, spectacle, revelations, legislature, rescind, agenda, withdraw, incumbent, delegate, derision, feuds, caucus, appoint, nominate, challenge, partisan, strategy, gracious, candidate, canvass, declare.

10 sample sentences show the usage of 28 election words: How many of your own can YOU make?

1. The GRACIOUS candidate conceded that her opponent had been an excellent CANDIDATE.
2. The PETITION was well-written and included 1,000 signatures for inclusion on the BALLOT.
3. Fuller planned to DECLARE his STRATEGY at the next scheduled meeting.
4. The experienced POLLSTER could rapidly CANVASS a given district.
5. Often in a PRIMARY the VOTERS would guess from an earlier STRAW POLL which person was likely be the FRONT RUNNER.
6. The AUDIENCE witnessed a SPECTACLE of negative reactions to the astounding REVELATIONS!
7. At noon, the LEGISLATURE wanted to RESCIND the offer to WITHDRAW without penalty.
8. What hidden AGENDA do you suppose the INCUMBENT will silently embrace?
9. The DELEGATE heard loud DERISION when he voiced a very unpopular proposal.
10. Due to the acrimonious FEUD, the CAUCUS refused to APPOINT or NOMINATE someone else to CHALLENGE these two PARTISANS.

Feel free to make a copy for use at home or in the classroom.
Any questions can be directed to Jan and Carey Cook at Vocabulary University for clarification.

The 12 comic strip words listed alphabetically are:
adverse, bunk, candidate, canvass, charisma, controversy, declare, eloquent, gracious, jubilant, strategy and veto
We have created seven more exercises that will challenge your understanding of many election related words:

Interactive Word Puzzles - submit answers, get contextual sentences back
Definition Match activity - from the 12 comic strip story words
Crossword Puzzle - using the 12 comic strip story words
Super Crossword - a challenge using 40 different election related words
Word Find Activity - find 23 election-related words
Election Story - create a story similiar to these 2 samples - you are here!
Election Comic Strip Story - 12 comic strip campaign story
Fill-in-the-Blanks exercise - 12 comic strip words plus 9 more appplicable words

If you want our free alphabetical vocabulary list of 100+ election-related words (called an "Alphalary") and 50+ election cliches, email your request to Election Words. Please include your school, city, state and grade you teach, if applicable.
Click here for "Teacher's tips & ideas" on how to use our "Alphalary" lists.

You may copy of any of our "activity cluster" activities above for use at home or in the classroom!

Reminder:
Don't forget to complete other activities and educational exercises from our current Session #139:

Interactive puzzles at grade level: ["S139 Level 1"] -- ["S139 Level 2"] -- ["S139 Level 3"]
Crosswords: ["S139Level 1 C/W"] -- ["S139Level 2 C/W"] -- ["S139Level 3 C/W"]
Find the Words: ["S139Level 1 WF"] -- ["S139Level 2 WF"] -- ["S139Level 3 WF"]
Fill-in-the-Blanks: ["S139Level 1-FITB"] -- ["S139Level 2-FITB"] -- ["S139Level 3-FITB"]
Definition MATCH: ["S139Level 1-Match"] -- ["S139Level 2-Match"] -- ["S139Level 3-Match"]
Contextual Stories: ["S139Level 1 Story"] -- ["S139Level 2 Story"] -- ["S139Level 3 Story"]
Is It True or False?: ["S139Level 1 T/F"] -- ["S139Level 2 T/F"] -- ["S139Level 3 T/F"]
Synonym/Antonym Encounters: [S139Level 1-Syn/Ant] -- [S139Level 2-Syn/Ant] -- [S139Level 3-Syn/Ant]

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If you want our free "Alphalary" (alphabetical vocabulary list) of 310 science-related words just email your request to Science Words. Please include your school, city, state/country and grade you teach, if applicable.
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Have you tried our set of puzzles inspired by Harry Potter? "Visit our Wizard puzzles". If you want our alphabetical list of 160 Wizard-related words just email your request to Wizard Words. Please include your school, city, state/country and grade you teach, if applicable.
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For hints on how to use our thematic "alphalary" lists go to Thematic Alphalary Words.

"Election" Link exercises:
[Interactive Word Puzzles] [Crossword] [Comic Strip] [Word Find]
[Fill-in-Blanks] [Word story] - you are here! [Big Crossword] [Matching]

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