Voting is CLOSED! Vocabulary List #8 – Here we go again!!
Voting is closed; the results are in. You will be tested on the following ten words tomorrow:
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genocide
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preternatural
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reconnaissance
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gauntlet
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aptly
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meek
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flippant
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ineluctable
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bravado
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reticence
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Here we go again. Expand your personal lexicon (extra credit anyone?). List 8 is coming atcha.
Allow me to remind you:
- I am not giving credit to people who offer definitions with a form of the word in the definition. If you don’t know what awkward means, you STILL don’t know what awkwardly means. Get it?
- Awkwardly – (adv.) when something is done in an awkward way.
- I am also not giving credit for SYNONYMS as definitions. Synonyms can be used for EXTRA CREDIT.
Today in class when you finished the test on List #7, again 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 (jargon- extra credit anyone?). In order to offer a word, the following pertinent information had to be recorded in your notebook:
- Sentence: the actual sentence from the passage with your word underlined with proper citation (Book or Magazine or Article Title and Issue, Author, Page #)
- Denotation: Dictionary Definition with Part of Speech (as used in the sentence)
- Other Forms of the word (and their parts of speech)
FOR INSTANCE:
- SENTENCE: The exuberant crowd jumped out of its seats when the goal was scored.
- Denotation: exuberant (adjective) abounding in vitality; extremely joyful and vigorous.
- 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’ll select 15 words from to make the next list. The master list for the 8th Vocabulary Test will be posted by the end of today hopefully. If your word was chosen, you must post the pertinent information for your word to this discussion. NOW!
Charts are due FRIDAY. Artifacts are due next Monday.
Gauntlet
a former punishment, chiefly military, in which the offender was made to run between two rows of men who struck at him with switches or weapons as he passed.
“Into the Gauntlet we go” whispered Amy
Noun
Thanks to those who offered words. Below I offer terms from my book:
bravado
– noun, plural -bravadoes, -bravados
– a pretentious, swaggering display of courage.
“Two thousand warriors and the Hiltmark of the Warward, two of the leaders of the Lorewardens, one lord – it was a terrible price to pay for Callindrill’s bravado.” (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, 810)
morose (morosely – adverb)
–adjective
1. gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a person or mood.
2. characterized by or expressing gloom.
“The siege of Revelwood was under way even while he sat in his private quarters, staring morosely at a marrowmeld sculpture.” (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, 807)
ineluctable
–adjective
incapable of being evaded; inescapable
“High Lord Elena’s fate only repeated the lesson of Kevin Landwaster; he had possessed far more power than the new Lords could ever hope for, now that the Staff of Law was gone; and all his might had achieved nothing but his own ineluctable despair and the ruin of the Land.” (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, 807)
circuitous (circuitously – adverb)
— adj
indirect and lengthy; roundabout
And in turn that description had led circuitously to the great change in Mhoram’s own life.” (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, 806)
reticent (reticence – noun)
–adjective
1. disposed to be silent or not to speak freely; reserved.
2. reluctant or restrained.
“His habitual Bloodguard reticence had given way almost to prolixity; and the fullness of his descriptionhad provided Mhoram with a first hint of the fundamental alteration which had taken place in the Bloodguard.” (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, 805)
preternatural
–adjective
1. out of the ordinary course of nature; exceptional or abnormal: preternatural powers.
2. outside of nature; supernatural.
“But still he could feel the preternatural winter which was upon the Land.” (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, 804)
word:Reconnaisance
pos:Noun
other words:reconoiter
def:An inspection or exploration of an area
sentence:if we want to know why the chickens are acting this way thanwe need to do some reconnaisance work.
Meek
def. Showing patience and humility;gentle easily impose upon.
Scentence – Meek customers often fail to demand prompt service.
Mundane- Adj.
Definition- 1)Of or pertaining to the world or pertaining to everyday life, dull or routine
2) Pertaining to the cosmos, universe or planets. “cosmic.
Sentence- “I dont believe this mundane ubduction is part of the…”
Forms-mun·dane·ly, adverb
mun·dane·ness, noun
post·mun·dane, adjective
sub·mun·dane, adjective
un·mun·dane, adjective
un·mun·dane·ly, adverb
word: flippant
Definition: Casualy or humorously disrespectful
sentence: Are you being flippant with me
(DragonLance:Dragons of the Highlord Skies)
flippantcy-flipantness-flippantly-unflippant-unflippantly
Word: Aptly (Adjective)
Sentence From Text: “They Seemed Aptly Named Since The Loveseat She Was Sitting On Was Full Of Fleas.”
Definition: Exactly Suitable
Other Forms: Apt·ness, Noun
Word: Aptly
Sentence From Text: “They Seemed Aptly Named Since The Loveseat She Was Sitting On Was Full Of Fleas.”
Definition: Exactly Suitable
Other Forms: Apt (Adjective)
Genocide
Sentence: “The people’s paradise of africa,” Lohengrin said,” under leadershipof Dr. Kitengi Nshombo, has accused Khartoum of enacting th policy of genocide against the black tribal population of the south and west sudan.”
Definition: The deliberate and systematic exterminatiom of an ethnic or national group.
Ambidextrous- Adj.
Definition- Able to use both hands equally well.
Semtence- In the basement, a strange sight was reported by an ambidextrous man who spoke into a walkie-talkie
(The Penultimate Peril)
Other forms- Ambidextrously (Adv.)
Ambidextrousness (N.)