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