Monday - December 11, 2011

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. 

·         3^rd 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.

               

Monday, December 5, 2011

Vocab Week 13

Facilitate – Verb

·         To make easier

·         To help bring about

·         (To run a meeting)

Fidelity – Noun

·         The act of being faithful

·         Accuracy in the details

·         Exactness of reproductions (pictures, recordings, etc.)

o   Hi-Fi stereo systems

Idiosyncrasy – Noun

·         An “unique” characteristic or quality

·         Eccentric

·         A bit odd

Ignoble – Adjective

·         Low birth or common origin

·         Plebian (Julius Caesar)

·         Mean, low, base character. 

o   A mean or bad man

Limerick – Noun

·         five little lines of corny, quirky, comical poetry

·         Uses anapestic form

·         Two short syllables followed by one long – Un – a- ware

·         Or two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed

o   Hickory dickory dock

Spelling:

Silhouette – Shadow

Oscillate – back and forth

Lacerate – cut

Boycott – stop buying

Nausea – upset tummy

Awry – Something’s gone wrong

Decathlon – 10 track events

Gingivitis – gum disease

Chauffeur – driver

Loquacious – wordy

                -Uh Huh from Little Rascals

Journal – Describe a winter memory

Monday, November 28, 2011

Vocab Week 12

Convoluted – Adjective (Con-vole-oo-ted)

·         Twisted

·         Involved

·         Intricate

·         Difficult to unravel or untangle

Curt – Adjective (Kert)

·         Brief or abrupt

·         NOT charismatic

·         Short, cold answers

Destitute – Adjective (Deh-Sti-toot)

·         Extreme poverty

·         Lacking something needed or desired

*Introspective – Adjective (Intro- speck-tive)

·         Looking inward

·         Examining one’s own thoughts and feelings

Inversion – Noun (In-ver-sion)

·         A reversal of position, order, or relationship

·         Placing a verb before the subject

o   Yoda talk

o   Normal in some verbs (To be)

§  I am Mr. Hawley – Am I Mr. Hawley?

§  Sounds weird in most other verb forms.

Spelling: 

Jalapeño – spicy pepper

Affectation - artificial

Nonnegotiable – No compromise

Decaffeinate – No buzz

Froufrou – Rustling sound, showy

Despot - Tyrant

Grotesque - Nasty

Euphonious – Good sound

Hermetically – airtight, sterile

Effulgent – Bright, sunny

Journal:  What do you want for Christmas and why?