Vocabulary List #4 – Vote, Share, Study, Test
The class has chosen. Here’s the list. I prepared the first 3 terms. You have to get the others ready if you want your credit. Look closely at the terms I prepared. You will have to provide MLA style cited sentences (as I have provided) and MLA style Works Cited Page citations (as I have provided) to the books those terms/sentences appear in. Use easybib.com to get it right.
Period 1
- Impervious (Jaelah)
- (adj) – unable to be affected by
- “The stone he leaned against remained cold, impervious to his body warmth” (Donaldson, 305).
- Donaldson, Stephen R. The Illearth War: The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant Book Two: Del Rey, n.d. 305. Print.
- Incapacity (Tyler)
- (n) – physical or mental inability to do something or to manage one’s affairs
- Hebrandished his ring, hoping she had no way of recognizing his incapacity” (Donaldson, 183).
- Donaldson, Stephen R. The Wounded Land: The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant Book One: Del Rey, n.d. 183. Print.
- summoning (Andrea)
- (v) bring to the surface (a particular quality or reaction) from within oneself
- “Summoning more strength than I had, Will pulled himself away” (Holbrook, 44).
- Holbrook, Jessa. While You’re Away. N.p.: n.p., n.d. 44. Print.
- Ambiguity (Deysi)
- (n) –
- Sentence Needed
- MLA Style Citation Required – page 59 – Joan Bauer- Almost Home
Period 4
- glean (Mandy)
- (v)
- Sentence Needed
- MLA Style Citation Required – page 21 – Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
- endearing (Carson)
- (adj) –
- Sentence Needed
- MLA Citation Required – page 153 – The Blood of Olympus by Rick Riordan
Period 5
- morality (Quintyn)
- (n) –
- We need the sentence.
- MLA Style Citation – Smith, Patricia. “To Kill or Not To Kill.” Up Front 17 Nov. 2014: 10. Print.
- shrill (Nazir)
- (adj)
- Sentence Needed
- MLA Citation Needed – page 215 – ??? – gordan korman
Period 6
- prosaic (Esperanza, Karen)
- (adj)
- Sentence Needed
- MLA Style Citation Needed – page 685 – the monkeys paw by W.W. Jacobs (The Language of Literature)
- vivid (Sarah)
- (adj)
- Sentence Needed
- MLA Style Citation Needed – page # – a walk to remember – by ???
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Morality-(noun)-beliefs about what is right and what is wrong behavior.
“The morality and the deterrent effect of capital punishment have been debated for thousands of years” (Smith 10).
Smith, Patricia. “To Kill or Not To Kill.” Up Front 17 Nov. 2014: 10. Print.
Endearing (adj)- tending to make dear or beloved.
“Nico found his sense of humor equal parts ENDEARING and annoying” (Riordan 153).
Riordan, Rick. The Blood of Olympus. New York: Hyperion.
Prosaic – (adj) – having the style or diction of prose; lacking poetic beauty.
There was an air of prosaic wholesomeness about the room which it had lacked on the previous night, and the dirty, shrivelled little paw was pitched on the sideboard with a carelessness which betokened no great belief in its virtues” (Jacobs).
Jacobs, W. W. “The Monkey’s Paw.” Project Gutenberg. Web. .
shrill – (adj) – (of a voice or sound) high-pitched and piercing.
from The Discovery by Gordon Korman, “His voice was shrill with frustration” (Korman 12).
Korman, Gordon. The Discovery. New York: Scholastic, 2003. 12. Print.
Vivid
adj.
1. producing powerful feelings or strong, clear images in the mind.
2. (of a person or animal) lively and vigorous.
“Now the vision of a one-armed lumberjack is pretty vivid right off the bat, so we talked about him a lot.”
Sparks, Nicholas. A Walk to Remember. New York, NY: Warner, 1999. 64. Print.
Ambiguity
1. (n) – uncertainty or inexactness of meaning in language.
2. “I was wondering . . . if you have any advice for this girl.” I waited. Mr. B put his hands in his pockets and looked at me. His shirt read ACCEPT AMBIGUITY. We’d all had ambiguity as a vocab word, but I’d gotten it wrong on the test” (Bauer, 59).
3. Bauer, Joan. Almost Home. New York: Viking, 2012. 59. Print.
glean
1. (v) – extract (information) from various sources.
2. “I would stay with the cartographers in Os Kervo to finish my training and help draft whatever information we managed to glean in the Fold” (Bardugo,22).
3. Bardugo, Leigh. Shadow and Bone. New York: Henry Holt, 2012. Print.