Vocab :)
1) Intercede: Intervene on behalf of another.
2) Hackneyed: Lacking significance through having been overused.
3) Approbation: The action of taking something for one's own use, typically without the owner's permission.
4) Innuendo: An allusive or oblique remark or hint
5)Coalition: An Allience for combined action.
6) Elicit : Evoke or draw out.
7) Hiatus: A pause or gap.
8) Assuage: Make (an unpleasant feeling) less intense: "the letter assuaged the fears of most members".
9) Decadence: Moral or cultural decline, esp. after a peak of achievement.
10) Expostulate: Express strong disapproval or disagreement.
11) Simulate: Imitate the appearance or character of.
12) Jaded: Tired, bored,
13) Umbrage: Offense or annoyance
14) Prerogative: A right or privilege exclusive to a particular individual or class.
15) Lurid: Very vivid in color, esp. so as to create an unpleasantly harsh or unnatural effect
16) Transcend: Be or go beyond the range or limits of (something abstract, typically a conceptual field or division).
17) Provincial: Of or concerning a provinence of a country or empire.
18) Petulant: Childlishly sulky or bad- tempered.
19) Untuous: Excessively or ingratiatingly flattering
20) Meritorious: Deserving reward or praise.
Well im About To Read " Young Goodman " And We Read A Peice In Class. Well My Prediction Is Maybe Faith Has A Spell Cast On Her Or Some Thing Because In The Text He Tells Her To Go To Bed At Dusk... Thats Pretty Much All i Got.. :)
Vocabulary :)
adumbrate: to produce a faint image or resemblance of to outline or sketch.
apotheosis: the elevation or exaltation of a person to the rank of a god.
ascetic: a person who dedicates his or her life to a persuit of complative ideals & self- denial or self- mortification for religious reasons.
bauble: a showy, usually cheap, ornament; trinket; gewgaw.
beguile: to influence by trickery, flattery, ect; misled; delude.
burgeon : to grow or develope quickly.
complement: something that completes or makes perfect.
contumacious: stubborn perverse or rebellious.
curmudgeon: a bad- termpered, difficult, cantankerous person.
didactic: intended for instruction.
well today in class we had a seminar and well I did not voice my opinion on this one but, i got a chance to listen to others and their opinions. we talked about Arguments. i heard alot of opinions on this topic but there was only one i agreed on. it was " People argue out of pride " that's what caught my attention. why? because i notice it alot in many arguments people have.
