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Senior Vocabulary: Week 31
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Monday, April 18, 2011. 1 Anomaly (n) – an abnormality, irregularity. 2 Arbiter (n) – a judge. 3 Attenuated (adj) – decreased, weakened, thinned. 4 Concomitant (adj) – attending, accompanying. 5 Deleterious (adj) – harmful; bad; venomous. 6 Dissent (v/n) –protest, disagree/disagreement. 7 Efficacy (n) - effectiveness. 8 Ferment (n/v) – agitation, turmoil, uproar. 9 Fervid (adj) – enthusiastic, passionate, avid. 10 Heresy (n) – lack of faith, dissent, disbelief. 14 Milieu (n) – setting, environment.
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Senior Vocabulary: Week 37 Words
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Monday, April 11, 2011. 1 Antipathy (n) – hate, distaste, dislike. 2 Austere (adj) – simple, unadorned or strict, hard. 3 Conducive (adj) – helpful, beneficial. 4 Confront (v) – come face to face with. 5 Erudite (adj) – scholarly. 6 Felicitous (adj) - happy. 7 Germane (adj) – relevant, appropriate. 8 Halcyon (adj) – calm, peaceful. 9 Iconoclast (n) – attacker of beliefs, image-breaker. 10 Motivate (v) – to provoke, stimulate, inspire. 11 Nascent (adj) – beginning to develop or exist. Jump to a Week.
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Senior Vocabulary: Week 42 Words
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Tuesday, April 5, 2011. 1 Artifice (n) – strategy, trickery, pretense. 2 Artless (adj) – naïve, innocent. 3 Begrudge (v) – to be resentful or reluctant. 4 Blasé (adj) – indifferent, not responsive to excitement. 5 Callous (adj) – unfeeling, hardened. 6 Capricious (adj) – fanciful, whimsical. 7 Comely (adj) – handsome, beautiful. 8 Delve (v) – to do research, dig. 9 Diversity (n) – change, variety. 10 Ennui (n) - boredom. 11 Expedient (adj) – fit, advisable. 13 Frenetic (adj) – frenzied, frantic.
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Ordinary People Class Page: 04/17 - 04/24
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Ordinary People Class Page. Sunday, April 17, 2011. For this book you will hopefully learn what you shall (in the future) do in your head while reading. For now, however, I would like for you to follow this process on paper so that you will be able to train your mind to do it automatically and (eventually) subconsciously. Keep track of the clues left by the author WHILE. You read each chapter. Answer the questions at the END. If you lost the study guide. go to the study guide section of the site.
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Ordinary People Class Page: 04/10 - 04/17
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Ordinary People Class Page. Saturday, April 16, 2011. 5 Stages of Acceptance of Death. Illusion vs. Reality. Perception vs. Reality. Duties of a Parent. Inspiration for life choices (family, friends, self motivation). What it means to be ordinary. Approaches to processing guilt (by family member). Impact and influence of parents on their children. Major Events/Issues: While the book focuses on these two story lines, Beth is there too, it may be a good idea to hypothesize her list of major events/issues.
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Senior Vocabulary: Week 41 Words
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Wednesday, April 6, 2011. 1 Advent (n) – coming of important event, arrival. 2 Allude (v) – to suggest, hint. 3 Bogus (n) – fake, counterfeit. 4 Curry (v) – to seek favor through flattery. 5 Denote (v) – to mean, show, indicate. 6 Impious (adj) – irreverent, lacking respect. 7 Insidious (adj) – treacherous, sly, sinister. 8 Intrinsic (adj) – inherent, innate. 9 Nutritive (adj) – having nourishing properties. 10 Pall (v) – to become dull, cease to please. 11 Potpourri (n) – a mixture, medley.
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Senior Vocabulary: Week 43 Words
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Monday, April 4, 2011. 1 Aloof (adj) – reserved, apart, distant. 2 Ameliorate (v) – to relieve, improve. 3 Atrophy (v) – waste away. 4 Benevolent (adj) – charitable, kindly. 5 Criterion (n) – test, model, standard. 6 Cynic (n) – a skeptic, pessimist. 7 Guise (n) – appearance, manner, mien. 8 Iniquity (n) – wickedness, injustice. 9 Largess (n) – liberality, gift, gratuity. 10 Maim (v) – to cripple, disable. 11 Mercenary (adj) – greedy, motivated by desire for gain. 12 Mollify (v) – to appease, pacify.
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Senior Vocabulary: Week 35
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Thursday, April 14, 2011. 1 Cliché (n/adj) – a commonplace phrase/common. 2 Countenance (v/n) – to permit/façade. 3 Debacle (n) – ruin, fiasco, disaster. 4 Effrontery (n) - boldness. 5 Equanimity (n) – self control. 6 Flabbergasted (adj) - astounded. 7 Gaunt (adj) – haggard, thin. 8 Hirsute (adj) - hairy. 9 Lampoon (v) – to ridicule. 10 Mien (n) – bearing, appearance, manner. 11 Nonentity (n) – one of no importance. 12 Parable (n) – a moralistic story. 13 Pensive (adj) – reflective, thoughtful.
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Senior Vocabulary: April 2011
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Monday, April 18, 2011. 1 Anomaly (n) – an abnormality, irregularity. 2 Arbiter (n) – a judge. 3 Attenuated (adj) – decreased, weakened, thinned. 4 Concomitant (adj) – attending, accompanying. 5 Deleterious (adj) – harmful; bad; venomous. 6 Dissent (v/n) –protest, disagree/disagreement. 7 Efficacy (n) - effectiveness. 8 Ferment (n/v) – agitation, turmoil, uproar. 9 Fervid (adj) – enthusiastic, passionate, avid. 10 Heresy (n) – lack of faith, dissent, disbelief. 14 Milieu (n) – setting, environment. 14 Pr...