Wednesday, September 21, 2016
"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!!
Friday, September 16, 2016
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.
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
- faith: complete trust or confidence in someone or something
- Threshold: a strip of wood, metal, or stone forming the bottom of a door way
- Tarry: stay longer than intended; delay leaving a place
- Resolve: firm determination to do something
- discern: perceive or recognize
- Martyr: a person who is killed because of their religion
- Mirth: amusement
- Catechism: instructions for Christians
- pious: devoutly religious
- 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
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
Thursday, September 15, 2016
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
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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