Hamlet Act I & Act II

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Vocab #6

ABASE: to reduce or lower, as in rank, office, repuatation, or estimation; humble; degrade.
ABDICATE: to renounce or relinquish a throne, right, power, claim, responsibility, or the like, especially in a formal manner.
ABOMINATION: anything abominable; anything greatly disliked or abhorred.
BRUSQUE: abrupt in manner; blunt; rough.
SABOTEUR: a person who commits or practices sabotage (any undermining of a cause).
DEBAUCHERY: excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures; intemperance.
PROLIFERATE: to grow or produce by multiplication of parts, as in budding or cell division, or by procreation.
ANACHRONISM: something or someone that's not in its correct historical or chronological time, especially a thing or person that belongs to an earlier time.
NOMENCLATURE: a set or system of names or terms, as those used in a particular science or art, by an individual or community, etc..
EXPURGATE: to amend by removing words, passages, etc.., deemed offensive or objectionable.
BELLICOSE: inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile; belligerent; pugnacious.
GAUCHE: lacking social grace. sensitivity, or acuteness; awkward; crude; tactless.
RAPACIOUS: given to seizing for plunder or the satisfaction of greed.
PARADOX: a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
CONUNDRUM: a riddle, the answer to which involves a pun or play on words, as what is black & white & red all over? A newspaper.
ANOMALY: a deviation from the common rule, type, arrangement, or form.
EPHEMERAL: lasting a very short time; short-lived; transitory.
RANCOROUS: full of or showing rancor (bitter, rankling resentment or ill will; hatred; malice).
CHURLISH: like a churl; boorish; rude.
PRECIPITOUS: of the nature of or characterized by precipices (a cliff with a vertical. nearly vertical, or overhanging face).

Phonar Assignment

 

 

A couple years ago I went on a trip to Montego Bay, Jamaica. The one experience that I most enjoyed was parasailing with my mom. The crisp ocean air salty. The spray of the ocean cold and refreshing. We took off in a boat, speeding away towards the horizon. The men strapped us into our harness and before I knew it I was flying. I was soaring over the ocean. I could see the beach, the people looked miniscule in size. The ocean was glistening blue and green, the contours of the reef and rocks prevalent from my birds eye view. The wind was howling all around me, whipping my hair all around my face.

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vocab #5

Shenanigans: a mischievous or deceitful trick, practice, etc ..
Ricochet: the motion of an object or a projectile in rebounding or deflecting one or more times from the surface over which it is passing or against which it hits a glancing blow.

Schism: division or disunion, especially into mutually opposed parties. 

Eschew: to abstain or keep away from; shun; avoid. 

Plethora: over abundance; excess. 

Ebullient: over flowing with fervor, enthusiasm or excitement; high-spirited. 

Garrulous: excessively talkative in a rambling, roundabout manner, especially about trivial matters. 

Harangue: a scolding or a long intense verbal attack, diatribe. 

Interdependence: mutually dependent; depending on each other.

Capricious: subject to, led by, or indicative of a sudden, odd notion or unpredictable change; erratic.

Loquacious: talking or tending to talk much or freely; talkative; chattering; babbling; garrulous.

Ephemeral: lasting a very short time; short-lived; transitory.

Inchoate: not yet completed or fully developed; rudimentary.

Juxtapose: to place close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast.

Perspicacious: having keen mental perception and understanding; discerning.

Codswallop: nonsense; rubbish.

Mungo: a low-grade wool from felted rags or waste.

Sesquipedalian: given to using long words; (of a word) containing many syllables.

Wonky: British slang. Shaky, groggy, unsteady; unreliable, not trustworthy. Slang. stupid, boring, unattractive.

Diphthong: an unsegment able, gliding speech sound varying continuously in phonetic quality but held to be a single sound or phoneme and identified by its apparent beginning and ending sound, as the oi- sound of toy or boil.

Green Eggs & Hamlet

2. Answer these "Pre-Will"questions in a post on your blog (title: GREEN EGGS & HAMLET): a) What do you know about Hamlet, the "Melancholy Dane"?  b) What do you know about Shakespeare?  c) Why do so many students involuntarily frown when they hear the name "Shakespeare"?  and d) What can we do to make studying this play an amazing experience we'll never forget?

Literature Analysis #1

Wuthering Heights
By Emily Bronte

Character Study III

Canterbury Tales II: What a Character!

Canterbury Tales 1

Character Study 1

Phonar14 Video Notes

My Masterpiece 1

Canturbury Tales Active Reading Notes

Vocabulary #4

obsequious
beatitude
bete noire
bode
dank
ecumenical
fervid
fetid
gargantuan
heyday
incubus
infrastructure
inveigle
kudos
lagniappe
prolix
protege
prototype
sycophant
tautology
truckle

Declaration of Learning Independence

Vocabulary #3

1. ACCOLADE(noun): any award, honor, or laudatory notice.
2. ACERBITY(noun): sourness, with roughness or astringency of taste.
3. ATTRITION(noun): a reduction or decrease in numbers, size or strength.
4. BROMIDE(noun): a person who's is platitudinous(flat, dull) and boring; a platitudinous or trite saying.
5. CHAUVINIST(noun): a person who is aggressively and blindly patriotic, especially one devoted to military glory; a person who believes one gender is superior to the other, as a male chauvinist or a female chauvinist.
6. CHRONIC(adj.): constan; habitual; inveterate; continuing a long time or reoccurring frequently.
7. EXPOUND(verb): to set forth or state in detail; to explain, interpret.
8. FACTIONALISM(noun): the state or quality of being partisan or self-interested.
9. IMMACULATE(adj.): free from spot or stain; spotlessly clean; free from moral blemish or impurity; pure; undefiled.
10. IMPRECATION(noun): a curse; malediction(utterance of a curse).
11. INELUCTABLE(adj.): incapable of being evaded; inescapable.
12. MERCURIAL(adj.): changeable; volatile(evaporating rapidly); fickle(likely to change); flighty; erratic(having no certain or definite course); quick-witted.
13. PALLIATE(verb): to relieve or lessen without curing; mitigate; alleviate; to try to conceal the gravity of an offense by excuses, apologies, etc..
14. PROTOCOL(noun): the customs and regulations dealing with diplomatic formality, precedence and etiquette; an original draft, minute, or record from which a document, especially a treaty, is prepared.
15. RESPLENDENT(adj.): shining brilliantly; gleaming; splendid.
16. STIGMATIZE(verb): to set some mark of disgrace or infamy upon.
17. SUB ROSA(noun): confidentially; secretly; privately.
18. VAINGLORY(noun):excessive elation or pride over one's own achievements, abilities, etc..; boastful vanity; empty pomp(stately display) or show.
19. VESTIGE(noun): a mark, trace, or visible evidence of something that is no longer present or in existence; a surviving evidence or remainder of some condition, practice, etc..
20. VOLITION(noun): the act of willing, choosing, or resolving; exercise of willing; a choice or decision made by the will.

My Blog 2.0

The internet is a wonderful yet horrible thing. I figured that since all my blog posts were saved to my blog they would be there until I deleted them. Apparently not. Blogger decided that for whatever reason it would remove my blog and take all of my hard work with it. So here I am making a new blog and starting from scratch.

And this is all that remains from my blog: