Monday, September 24, 2012

VOCAB: Fall #6

1. Adroit: Dexterous; Deft
- The adroit musician can play the guitar with out tiring.
2. Amicable: Friendly; Peaceable
- After arguing we finally came to an amicable decision.
3. Averse: Feeling opposition, distaste/disinclined
- I am averse to gossip but its difficult to avoid.
4. Belligerent: Aggressively hostile
-My mom sent my belligerent brother to his room.
5. Benevolent: Characterized by doing good
- Joseph pictured himself as a very benevolent ruler.
6. Cursory: Performed with haste & scant attention to detail
- I gave a quick cursory glance at my partners paper.
7. Duplicity: Deliberate deceptiveness in behavior or speech
- We couldn't believe our friend was capable of such duplicity.
8. Extol: To praise lavishly
- Like there's still enough honesty to extol.
9. Feasible: capable of being accomplished;possible
- With god I feel feasible.
10. Grimace: Face expressive of pain, contempt/disgust
- There was a grimace upon my face.
11. Holocaust: Great or total destruction
- Even though the Holocaust was a sad thing, it made impact on history.
12. Impervious: Incapable of being penetrated.
- I am impervious to your insults.(:
13. Impetus: An impelling force; impulse
- He lacked the impetus to study.
14. Jeopardy: Danger or risk of loss or injury
- Bob was put in great jeopardy when he was caught.
15. Meticulous: Extremely or excessively careful & precise
- I am very meticulous with my studies to get the best grades.
16. Nostalgia: Bittersweet longing for things/persons.
- Her nostalgia caused her to live in the past.
17. Quintessence: The pure, highly concentrated essence of a thing.
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
18. retrogress: To move backward to an earlier, inferior, or less complex condition
- Those who retrogress in school are losers.
19. Scrutinize: To examine with great care.
- I scrutinize to everything.
20. Tepid: Moderately warm
- I love taking a shower in the morning with tepid water.

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Vocab Fall #5

1. Allude: Referring to something
- I wasn't trying to allude anything.
2. Clairvoyant: Able to read minds
- God is clairvoyant.
3. Conclusive: Putting an end to a doubt/question
- The blood tests made a conclusive diagnosis.
4. Disreputable: Poor reputation
- His brothers clashes with the law gave him a disreputable.
5. Endemic: Natural to an environment/widespread
- The giraffe is endemic to america.
6. Exemplary: imitation
-Your an exemplary student.
7. Fathom: To understand
- I do not fathom what you are talking about.
8. Guile: Sly intelligence
- In science I am guile.
9. Integrity: Taught, speech & action
- Integrity is shown in every church.
10. Itinerary: trip schedule/plan.
- I hope to make my itinerary before graduating.
11. Misconstrue: Misunderstand, misrepresent
- The teacher misconstrue what I was trying to say.
12. Obnoxious: rude, loud
- My little brother is so obnoxious.
13. Placate: To calm down, satisfy
- I needed to placate him to know what happened.
14. Placid: Calm
-My friends are placid when they present in class.
15. Plagiarism: taking someones ideas& using them as yours.
- People use plagiarism because they don't like doing work.
16. Potent: Powerful
- When you succeed you feel potent.
17. Pretext: An excuse, reason for doing something
- I always pretext before saying the truth.
18. Protrude: to stick out
- My teacher protrude's good students.
19. Stark: obvious, easy to see, naked
- Never go stark to school.
20. Superficial: Looking real until examined closer
- A clown was superficial.

Thursday, September 6, 2012

Notes(:

The Color Of The Book In Class Was Blue, But When The Lights Turned Off It Was A Much Darker Color, Because It Is The Way We See It.
A Paper Is Smooth But In A Microscope It Is Not As We Taught, Its The Quality That We Perceive The Paper.
We All See Things In The Way We Want To It's All Perception.
Displacement: When You Take Them From Their Natural Habitat & Put Them Somewhere They Don't Belong.

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

AHA!

Vocab Fall # 3

1. Encomium: Warm, Glowing Praise
-The Foreman Received The Highest Encomium That Was Ever Given.
2. Coherent: Sticking Together
-Me & My Friend Coherent Our Posters W/Ideas.
3. Belabor: To Attack With Blows,Hit, Or Whip.
-If You Don't Stop I Will Belabor You.
4. Eschew: To Avoid
-The Teacher Eschewed The Talking In Class.
5. Acquisitive: Strong Desire To Gain& Possess.
-I Had A Acquisitive For New Shoes.
6. Emulate: To Equal Or Excel.
-The Young Boy Always Tried To Emulate His Older Brother.
7. Arrogate: To Take Or Claim For Oneself W/Out Right.
-My Friend Arrogated Food That Was Mine.
8. Banal: Commonplace & Often Predictable.
-The Banal Lectures Made The Boy Fall Asleep.
9. Excoriation: To Tear Or Wear Off The Skin.
- A Girl Had A Problem To Was Her Hands This Caused Excoriation.
10. Congeal: Soldify Or Freezing.
-The Man Congeals The Ice Cream.
11. Carping: Naggingly Critical Or Complaining.
-My Little Niece Is Carping When She Don't Get What She Wants.
12. Substantiate: Support W/Proof Or Evidence.
-We Showed Substantiate Of Who Was Responsible For Our Friends Accident.
13. Temporize: To Gain Time, Avoid Argument
-I Temporize When I Know I'm Right.
14. Largesse: Liberality In Bestowing Gifts.
-Due To The Largesse Of My Family, I Have Many Things.
15. Tenable: Capable To Maintain In Argument.
-Your Position On Global Warming Is Not Tenable.
16. Insatiable: Impossible To Satisfy
-He Has An Insatiable Hunger.
17. Reconnaissance: Inspection Or Exploration Of An Area.
18. Germane: Being Fitting
-Friends Sometimes Find That They Are Germane.
19. Ramify: To Have Complicated Consequences
-By Sneaking Out My Friend Had Ramify.
20. Intransigent: Refusing To Moderate A Position.
-He Will Not Succeed If He Intransigent In Work.
21. Taciturn: Habitually Untalkative
-Sally Was Always Known For Her Taciturn Personality.
22. Invidious: Resentment
-Abortion Is Perhaps The Most Invidious Topic In Our Culture Today.

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Symbolism Of Young Goodman Brown

1. Goodman Brown's Name Is A Symbol In The Story It Means Hes A Gentlemen During That Time.
2. The Pink Ribbons Are Also A Symbol That Shows That Faith Is A A Cheerful Women And Innocent.
3. The Staff Symbolises That Its Something Evil To Goodman Brown That Forces Him To Do What He Dont Want.
4. Forest Symbolises That Its Like Hell Cause It Contained Demons And Witches.
5. The Traveller Is A Symbol Of Death When He Touched Branches They Would Die. This Is What I Found.