Vocab Week 14
Incredulous – Adjective
· Unwilling to admit or accept that what is being offered is true.
· Skeptical
· Disbelieving
Lithe – Adjective
· Easily bent or flexed
· Great flexibility and grace
· Dancers
Morose – Adjective
· Having a gloomy or sullen disposition
· Depression
Ominous – Adjective
· having a menacing or threatening aspect
· Foreboding or foreshadowing evil or bad things about to happen
Onomatopoeia – Noun
· Naming a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it.
· Naming sounds
Spelling week 14:
Raspberry – Seedy fruit
Grammarian – English teacher
Inoculate – to introduce for prevention
Aborigine – Natives
Succinct – Brief/Precise
Lackadaisical – Lethargic/Lazy
Entrepreneur – Business starter
Malleable – Shapeable/Metal
Annexation – Unite/combine
Elucidate – Define/Clear up
Journal: Discuss parents reprimanding a child for a mistake in the style of a newspaper article.
· 3rd person,
· Lots of statements by observers and witnesses
· Very formal speech.
“Authorities yesterday confirmed that Jonathan Hawley was sent to the time out corner of his home for inserting a Jelly Belly Jelly beans into his younger brother Levi’s nostrils and ear canals. The parents, Hans and Emilie Hawley, have expressed consternation with their son over these repeated actions. “I’m not sure where he (Jon) gets these ideas from,” said Mrs. Hawley. “It’s not like he can remember Hans pinning him down and inserting those marbles in his nose when he was just a baby. I mean it was all for fun at the time, but we never thought it would come back to haunt us like this,” she said.
Mr and Mrs. Hawley have decided they will have to revoke all privileges from their son, including sleeping, eating, breathing, and feeling for the forseeable future in an effort to help young Jon learn that this is inapropriate behavior for a five year old. “He shouldn’t be stuffing these types of candy into his little brother’s orifices. He has older brothers than can handle this kind of play much better. Not to mention since they are older and have bigger nasal and ear cavaties, the beans don’t tend to get as stuck as often,” said Mr. Hawley to local reporters on Sunday.