Vocab week 15:
1.
disparage- tr. verb - dis-pār’-əj :
a. to depreciate by indirect means, as invidious comparison; speak slightingly about
b. belittle; depreciate c. to bring reproach or discredit upon
2.
eschew- tr. verb. ĕ-shoo’ :
a. to habitually avoid - especially on moral or practical grounds
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. appealed to the crowd to eschew violence.
b. to deliberately avoid using; abstain from; shun
3.
fiasco- noun fē as’ ko :
a. debacle, disaster, shambles, mess, failure, flop; the opposite of success
b. something that is botched completely
c. an absolute, abject or utterly humiliating failure
After the rain, the dress got all muddy, and the groom fell off the dais and broke his leg.
The wedding was a fiasco…(but the marriage was not.)
4.
laudable- adj. lah’- də-bl :
a. deserving or worthy of praise; admirable; commendable
Improving schools is a laudable goal.
b. healthy; salubrious; normal; having a disposition to promote healing
5.
masticate- tr. verb – măs’ – tĭ – kāt :
a. to chew
b. to grind or crush (food) with, or as if with, the teeth
To masticate food is the first step of digestion, and it increases the surface area of foods
to allow more efficient break down by enzymes.
Literary Terms:
1.stanza, also called a strophe or stave, is a division of a poem consisting of two or more lines arranged together as a unit. More specifically, a stanza usually is a group of lines arranged together in a recurring pattern of metrical lengths and a sequence of rhymes.
The structure of a stanza is determined by the number of lines, the dominant meter, and the rhyme scheme. So, a stanza of four lines of iambic pentameter, rhyming abab, could be described as a quatrain. Others are tercet or terza rima (three lines) and ottava rima (eight lines). 2.The term strophe is often used interchangeably with stanza, although strophe is sometimes used specifically to refer to a unit of a poem that does not have a regular meter and rhyme pattern or to a unit of a Pindaric ode.
3.rime - In the study of phonology in linguistics, the rime is the portion of a syllable from the first vowel to the end, the part that is lengthened or stressed when a person elongates or accents a word in speech. A word is made of the onset or first consonant (optional), nucleus or vowel sound (obligatory) and coda or final sound. The rime is the nucleus + coda. The nucleus in all languages is not always a vowel, similar to the consonant –le syllable. "Rime" and "rhyme" are variants of the same word, but "rime" is used to mean specifically "syllable rime" to differentiate it from the concept of poetic rhyme.
4.rhyme- in the strict sense is also called a perfect rhyme. Examples are sight and flight, deign and gain, madness and sadness. Rhyme is used by poets and occasionally by prose writers to produce sounds appealing to the reader’s senses and to unify and establish a poem’s stanzas. End rhyme (i.e., rhyme used at the end of a line to echo the end of another line) is most common, but internal, interior, or leonine rhyme is frequently used as an occasional embellishment in a poem.
Vocabulary words - 15A
Gruesome - Nasty
Guerrilla - Fighter
Hara-Kiri OR Hari-Kiri - Japanese suicide
Harass - annoy
Honest - Truth
Hemorrhage - Bleed Profusely
Hemorrhoids - Blood blisters on your bottom
Heroes - Supperman
Hiccup - Tummy Jiggles
Hitchhiker - Hopeful traveler
Journal: What would you do with a BILLION dollars? Think really big.
Creative writing - No assigned topic this week. I just want a 3 - 5 page paper on a topic of your choice.
2nd Per - Honors: Vocab and journal entry.
3rd Per
4th Per
5th Per
6th Per - Vocab week 13, spelling 15A, and Journal. See above.
These boots were made for walkin'. Stormi looking good at prom!
Miria eats a grasshopper. Not sure I could ever get that taste out of my mouth!
Hawley's blisters PROVING that I ran a 1/2 marathon - well, actually more like I wobbled through a 1/2 marathon in Salt Lake last weekend. :-) Carpe Diem, kids. If this old man can follow his dreams, so can you. 
