Vocab #5

1. venomous: (of a person or their behavior) full of malice or spite.
2. stolid: (of a person) calm, dependable, and showing little emotion or animation.
3. hypnotized: produce a state of hypnosis in (someone).
4. suspended: temporarily prevent from continuing or being in force or effect.
5. transformed: make a thorough or dramatic change in the form, appearance, or character of.
6. accuse: claim that (someone) has done something wrong.
7. anticipate: regard as probable; expect or predict.
8. fringe: not part of the mainstream; unconventional, peripheral, or extreme.
9. melancholy: a feeling of pensive sadness, typic with no obvious case..
10. earnestly: showing or expressing sincerity or seriously
11. dissolve: (with reference to a solid) become or cause to become incorporated into a liquid so as to form a solution
12. aggravate: make (a problem, injury, or offense) worse or more serious.
13. illuminate: light up.
14. capillary: any of the fine branching blood vessels that form a network between the arterioles and venules
15. proboscis: the nose of a mammal, especially when it is long and mobile, such as the trunk of an elephant or the snout of a tapir.

Vocab #4 Fall List

1. Intermittent: occurring at irregular intervals; not continuous or steady..
2. Ebb: the movement of the tide out to sea.
3. Regress: return to a former or less developed state.
4. Tendency: an inclination toward a particular characteristic or type of behavior.

5. Antiseptic: scrupulously clean or pure, especially so as to be bland or characterless..

Team Vocabulary

"THE PEDESTRIAN" FIRST IMPRESSION!

My first taste of "The Pedestrian" had me very excited. I can tell me and the class are going to like this story. I like how books are mysterious and can't wait to see what happens next!!

Vocab #3

1. Coherent: logical and consistant.

2. Belabor: Argue or elaborate a subject in excessive detail.

3. Eschew: Deliberately avoid using; abstain from.

4. Acquisitive: Excessively interested in acquiring money or material things.

5. Emulate: Match or surpass

6. Banal: So lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring.

7. Excoriation: Hash criticism.

8. Congeal: Solidify or coagulate, especially by cooling.

9. Carping: Difficult to please

10. Substantiate: Provide evidence to support or prove the truth of

11. Temporize: Avoid making a decision or committing to oneself in order to gain time

12. Largesse: Generosity in bestowing money or gifts upon others.

13. Tenable: Able to be maintained or defended against attack or objection.

14. Insatiable: Impossible to satisfy.

15. Reconnaissance: Military observation of a region to locate an enemy a ascertain strategic features.

16. Germane: Relevant to a subject under consideration.

17. Ramify: From branches or offshoots; spread or branch out.

18. Intransigent: Unwilling or refusing to change one's views or to agree about something.

19. Taciturn: Reserved or uncommunicative in speech; saying little.

Vocab #2

1. faith: complete trust or confidence in someone or something
2. Threshold: a strip of wood, metal, or stone forming the bottom of a door way 
3. Tarry: stay longer than intended; delay leaving a place 
4. Resolve: firm determination to do something
5. discern: perceive or recognize 
6. Martyr: a person who is killed because of their religion 
7. Mirth: amusement 
8. Catechism: instructions for Christians 
9. pious: devoutly religious
10. Frenzy: a state or period of uncontrolled excitement or wild behavior 

Vocab #1

1. Theme: center message of a story
2. Tone: to repeat the author's attitude toward the audience, or the topic, or the characters
3. Mood: readers emotion while reading
4. Diction: the words an author uses to tell a story
5. Syntax: the way the author puts the words together
6. Stupid: lacking intelligence or common sense
7. Adumbrate: report or represent in outline
8. Apotheosis: the highest point in the development of something; culmination or climax
9.Ascetic: characterized by or suggesting the practice of severe self-discipline and abstention from all forms of indulgence, typically for religious reasons
10. Bauble: a small, showy trinket or decoration
11.Burgeon: begin to grow or increase rapidly; flourish
12.Complement: a thing that completes or brings to perfection
13.Contumacious: stubbornly or willfully disobedient to authority
14. Curmudgeon: a bad tempered or surly person
15. Didactic: intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive

BIG QUESTION

Is it still called a gas pedal on an eletric car?!?

MY AERIES

I received an C- on my essay and I was very surprised I thought I would've gotten a lower grade. I received this grade because I didnt read carefully I read it fast.  I think I've done better if I used examples from the stories but I wish I did read it so I can get a better grade.

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