Vote for List #10 – ONLY NINE WORDS TO CHOOSE
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I will settle the issue concerning gobbledygook once and for all. In addition to the linked page below. Monique looked the word up in class today and found that two spellings, if we can say there are only two, appeared in the dictionary she used. I tend to rely on the dictionaries I purchased to work through my literature degree some years back, The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. When any word’s spelling or etymology is in question, we will always fall back on the world’s most trusted dictionaries, the Oxford Dictionaries. So . . . read the entry found at the below link. What you read there will be what is expected on the test including any variations you find there.
http://oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/gobbledygook
Kaylyn, Gobbledygook is the right spelling, there’s no such word as gobbledegook, I looked it up…
Evan, see my post . . . see you all in class.
Here are the missing words( not from my group, they posted their words).
CADENCE-noun
Definition -a modulation(transition) or inflection(change) of the voice
Sentence-“He knew from the very cadence and motion and continual stir of curiosity and wonder in them. (Bradbury, 146)
Synonyms: pulse, count
TALCUM-noun
Definition– a powder made of purified, usually perfumed magnesium silicate( a mineral)
Sentence- “Only if by change you mean has my love of libraries widened and developed, to which the answer is a yes that ricochets off the stacks and dusts talcum off the librarian’s cheeck.” (Bradbury, 168)
MARINER-noun
Definition– a person who directs or assists in the navigation of a ship; sailor
Sentence- “Along the way I compared Jules Verne and his mad captain Melville and his equally obsessed mariner.” (Bradbury, 168)
Il looked up the info myself, but I’m pretty sure they’re right.
3rd block, here are the last three words
cadence: noun
definition: a rhythmic flow of a sequence of sounds or words
sentence: “The voices talked of everything, there was nothing they couls not talk about, he knew, from the very cadence and motion adn continual stir of curiosity and wonder in them” (Bradbury, 146).
mariner: noun
definition: a person who directs or assists in the navigation of a ship; sailor
sentence: “I have written poems about Melville, Melville and Emily Dickinson, Emily Dickinson and Charles Dickens, Hawthorne, Poe, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and along the way I compared Jules Verne and his Mad Captain to Melville and his equally obsessed mariner” (Bradbury, 168).
talcum: noun
definition: a fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate
sentence: “Only if by change you mean has my love of libraries widened aand deepened, to which the answer is a yes that ricochets off the stacks and dusts talcum off the librarian’s cheek” (Bradbury, .168)
Hey 3rd Block!!!!! Where are the missing words?
cadence
talcum
mariner
Kricia in the book I was looking in the word is spelt g-o-b-b-l-e-d-e-g-o-o-k.
Elly the word solace is on the wrong list, it belongs with list 11.
Thanks Kaylyn. I moved solace.
Solace-
Part of speech- noun
Definition- Comfort in distress, sorrow, or misery; something that gives such comfort or consolation.
Sentence- “Offering no help, no solace, no peace, no harbor, no true love, no bed, no light.” (Bradbury,171)
Seance– Noun – A meeting where people try to contact the dead
“He felt as if he had left the great seance and all the murmuring ghosts” (Bradbury, 140)
Gobbledygook– Noun – Language that is meaningless or made unintelligible by use of abstract terms; nonsense
“Scientists give us goobbledygook about friction and molecules. But they don’t really know.” (Bradbury, 115)
Saccharine
Part of Speech: Adjective
Definition: of the nature or resembling that of sugar
Sentence: “He’s a regular peppermint stick now, all sugar and saccharine, when he isn’t making veiled references to certain commercial products that every worshiper absolutely needs.”(Bradbury, 81)
Word: Profusion
Part of Speech: Noun
Definition: The condition of being profuse; abundance.
Sentence: “You’d find life under the glass, streaming past in infinite profusion.” (Bradbury, 83)
Procaine
Part of Speech: Noun
Definition: a compound, C 1 3 H 2 0 N 2 O 2 , used chiefly as a local and spinal anesthetic.
Sentence: “It made a single last leap into the air coming down at Montag from a good three feet over his head, its spider legs reaching, the procaine needle snapping out its single angry tooth.” (Bradbury 120)
PHOSPHORESCENT (adverb)
definition: emitting light without appreciable heat as by slow oxidation of phosphorous.
sentence: “He was a phosphorescent target; he knew it, he felt it.” (Bradbury, 126)
BLANCHED (adjective)
Sentence: “They turned, their faces BLANCHED meat, streaming sweat; he beat their heads, knocking off their helmets and bringing them down on themselves (Bradbury 120).”
Definiton: To have been made lighter in color