Vocabulary List 6
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misgovern, mordant, hospice, tyrannical, exultant, volition, threnody, feigning, reluctantly, emphatically
There was some discussion about the spelling of feigning, and it is in fact spelled f-e-i-g-n-i-n-g . Thanks for checking on this.
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Allow me to remind you
- I am not giving credit to people who offer definitions with a form of the word in the definition.
- I am also not giving credit for SYNONYMS as definitions. Synonyms can be used for EXTRA CREDIT.
And, consider this, if I don’t know what awkward means, I STILL don’t know what awkwardly means. Get it? See below.
- Awkwardly – (adv.) when something is done in an awkward way. So, you may very well be able to start voting for the actual test words
THIS WEEK. The sooner I have most of the words posted, the sooner I can open it up to voting. Today in class, you read to find one (1) word in your own personal reading that I might have chosen to include on a vocabulary list. Remember, it should not be specialized field specific terminology. The following pertinent information had to be recorded in your notebook: The actual sentence from the passage with your word underlined with proper citation (Book or Magazine or Article Title and Issue, Author, Page #) Definition & Part of Speech (as used in the sentence) Forms of the word (and their parts of speech)
FOR INSTANCE:
WORD: exuberant (adjective) abounding in vitality; extremely joyful and vigorous.
SENTENCE: The exuberant crowd jumped out of its seats when the goal was scored.
FORMS: ex·u·ber·ant·ly adverb; o·ver·ex·u·ber·ant, adjective; o·ver·ex·u·ber·ant·ly, adverb; un·ex·u·ber·ant, adjective; un·ex·u·ber·ant·ly, adverb
SO, with your help, we selected 5 words from each block for a total of 15 words on the list. I really really really really hope more of you get ready for the test THIS time. More people prepared this time than ever before. Let’s keep this growth up! The master list for the 6th Vocabulary Test will be posted by the end of today. If your word was chosen, you must post the pertinent information for your word to this discussion. NOW.
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volition: (n) the act or an instance of choosing or deciding.
Sentence: “He made the decent grimly, mechanically like a volitionless puppet stalking down the irregular steps of his designated end” (The Illearth War 747).
– volitionless (adj)
– volitional (adj)
– volitionaly (adv)
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threnody (n) a poem or song of mourning or lamenation.
Sentence: “For reasons as which cast ripples of passion across the air of Earthroot. For reasons at which covenant could only guess instinctively, she broke into lord Kevin’s Lament as if it were her own private and immedicable threnody” (The Illearth War, 752).
– threnodic (adj)
– threnodist (n)
– threnodial (adj)
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from the Free Dictionary – – – – –
Synonyms: coronach, dirge, requiem, lament
threnody
Word: reluctantly
Sentence from txt: Lennie reluctantly reached into his pockets.
Definition: Mark by unwillingness
SomeshP
Belligerently
Now Lennie retorted belligerently,”He ain’t neither. George won’t do nothing like that.” (Of mice and men, pg.102)
Inclined to fight,agessive
Adj.
Cheyenne 🙂
Exultant- Full of happiness and pride
forms of Exultant- Exulting, Exult’antly
sentence from the text- The exultant shouting hadn’t yet started, no noisy enthusiam or disappointment about stories that had either come off or blown up, excited arguments advocating one particular approach or another. – Red wolf by: Liza Markland pg. 1
Kamiya
Word: Surreptitiously
Sentence from the text: ” Listen to the scheme they’ve come up with to get a message to Mr.Broks, an opekta Co. sales reprensentative and friend whos surreptitiously hidden some of our things from us! ”
– Diary of a Young Girl: Anne Frank
Definition: done, made, or acquired by stealth
Tierra broadie
Word: Fraternizing (verb)
Sentence from txt: Thats what it means by comforting the queen’s enemies and fraternizing with the humans.
Definition: To behave in a brotherly way or to be frendly.
Other forms of the word: Fraternized
Mordant
Adjective.
Def: Sharp or cutting with words.
Sentence: A lepers claustrophobia was on him, a lepers fear of crowds, of unpredictable behavior. Berek! He panted with mordant intensity.
-Brandon Weed
other forms:
Proliferate
Def: to produce new growth or offspring
Sentence: Over the next few days, the parasites continue to devour and proliferate stealthily
other forms: proliferating, proliferated, proliferates
Hospice
definition- a place with a homelike feeling where patients who are dying of disease are taken care of and made comfortable
Sentance- “Or maybe I can go visit my grandfather in the hospice”
Other forms- hospitably, hospitable
Sanguinary
def: Eager for bloodshed
Sentence-An outcast himself from the pack of part-grown dogs, his anguinary methods and remarkable efficiency made th pack pay for its persecution.
Other forms: Sanguine, sanguinly, sanguinity
jaquay connor
misgovern verb
Definition: to govern or manage badly.
sentence: the mayor misgoverned the city for years. (the dictionary)
other forms: misgoverned misguided
Kaila massey
Feigning verb
Definittion: to give a falce apperance, to make a false apperance.
Sentence: the opossum isnt really dead it’s ony feigning to fool the dog (the dictonary)
other forms: feigned; feigns ; feign
Emiah Spinks
Tyrannical adverb
Defenition: of realating to or characteristic of a tyrant or tyranny; a government in which a single ruler has absolute power.
Sentence: By the time Mary was six years old she was a tyrannical and selfish a little pig ever did live. (From The Secret Garden)
Other forms: Tyranically
Emphatically: Adj.
Definition: Expressed or preformed with emphasis.
Sentence: I am not going to pretend that at that moment I foresaw the events of the next few weeks. I emphatically did not do so. (From: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd)
Other forms: Emphatic