Tuesday, October 7, 2014

English 12, Period 4

Finish the flip side of the worksheet on "Miss Brill" and continue collecting the next set of ten vocabulary words.

This week's vocabulary words are as follows:

  1. mobocracy - noun- lawless rule of public affairs by the mob or populace 
  2. glibly - adv - insincerely/shallowly speaking on a subject 
  3. elude - verb - to avoid or escape in a cunning way
  4. benevolent - adj - well meaning and kindly 
  5. haphazard - adj - careless; lacking in organization; unplanned 
  6. malevolent - adj - evil 
  7. zephyr - noun - a gentle wind 
  8. cataclysm - noun - a destructive, large scale--even apocalyptic--violent event 
  9. admonish - verb - to reprimand or scold 
  10. mundane - adj - bland, boring, monotonous, run of the mill, ordinary