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