Vote for List #11 – ONLY NINE WORDS TO CHOOSE
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Tiffin (n.)
~ definition – Midday meal
~ sentence – “I ate them like salad, books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and dinner and midnight munch.” (Bradbury, 170)
Penance (n.)
~ definition – A punishment undergone in token of penitence for sin.
~ sentence – “The other was like a chunk of burnt pine-log he was carrying along as a penance for some obscure sin.” (Bradbury, 121)
Okay, I tried to find as much info. for tiffin and penance (even though this isn’t my job) for the people who are doing charts and artifacts:
-Tiffin (v.) def:To eat lunch. Sentence:”I ate them like salad, books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and dinner and midnight munch.”
-Penance (n.) def:A punishment undergone in token of penitence for sin. Sentence:“The other was like a chunk of burnt pine-log he was carrying along as a penance for some obscure sin.”
~Oh and sorry I don’t have any citations because i used google for this and i didn’t get a page number from the book.
Hey 4th Block!!!!
2 words are missing: tiffin, penance
grandiose (Adj.)- grand in an imposing or impressive way.
“Philosophy, art history, politics, social science, the poem, the essay, the grandiose play, you name ’em, I ate ’em.”
abraded (verb)- to wear off or down by scraping or rubbing;to scrape off.
“And by the far edge of thirty, and the near rim of thirty-one, I picked myself up, every bone broken every centimeter abraded, bruised, or scarred.”
The actual definition for leech is: to drain energy, money, etc.
Elly you posted your word to list 10 when it should be on this list so here it is
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)
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)
Leech
Definition: A person who clings to another for personal gain.
Sentence: “Every story, slenderized, starved, bluepenciled, leeched and bled white, resembled every other story.” (page 176, paragraph 5, sentence 1)
Litany– tedious recital or repetitive series.
Noun
“Finally, many readers have written protesting Clarrisse’s disappearance, wondering what happened to her. Francois Truffaut felt the same curiosity, and in his film version of my novel, rescued Clarisse from oblivion and located her with the Book People wandering in the forest, reciting their litany of books to wonder about books and what was in them.” (Bradbury, 172)
kerosene-for definition look under list #9
part of speech: noun
Sentence 1: “First up the steps, first into the library, first in the burning furnace heart of his ever-blazing countrymen, douse me with kerosene, hand me my torch.” (Bradbury, 171-172)
Sentence 2: “Every minority, be it Baptist/Unitarian, Irish/Italian/Octogenarian/Zen Buddhist, Zionist/Seventh-day Adventist, Women’s Lib/Republican, Mattachine/FourSquareGospelfeelsithas the will, the right, the duty to douse the kerosene, light the fuse.” (Bradbury, 176-177) – yes the words are bunched together in the book when it says “…Mattachine/FourSquareGospelfeelsithas..”
deluge-a great flood or heavy downpour
part of speech: noun
Sentence: “And nowhere, nowhere the right book for the time to stuff in the crumbling wall of the breaking dam to hold back the deluge, give or take a metaphor, lose or find a simile.” (Bradbury, 171)
demarrow: to take out the central part of the bone. (in the book it is used metaphorically meaning to take out the main/central part of something, not just bones)
part of speech: verb
sentence: “Skin, debone, demarrow, scarify, melt, render down and destroy.” (Bradbury, 176)
I will take kerosene and deluge
Mr. Moshé,
On Edmodo you have that kerosene is for list 9 and 11. If it doesn’t belong on our list I will switch it with demarrow.
The word appears throughout the book, and so I am including it on both lists. Consider it part of the curve when it comes to grades.