English 10, Period 6

Please complete the question sheet on "Lamb for the Slaughter" for Tuesday.  You can find a copy of the story at this link.  If you have not finished the vocabulary assignment, do so for Tuesday as well.  Remember, you must choose 10 of the following words and use them all in a cohesive paragraph.

Completed vocabulary list--English 10, Period 6

1. bias:  leaning towards or against an idea, issue, person, or group
2. fallacious:  based on a mistaken belief
3. anthropomorphic:  attribution of human qualities to animals
4. hiatus:  a pause in a process
5. belligerent:  to be hostile and aggressive
6. vigil:  a state of wakefulness during sleeping hours; keeping watch at night
7. epigram:  a short, humorous or satirical saying
8. intercede:  to act on another's behalf or to smooth out troubles between two parties
9. omnipotent:  all-powerful
10. murmuration:  the act of murmuring (speaking indistinctly)
11. tomfoolery:  foolish or silly behaviour; shenanigans
12. cogitate:  to think deeply or meditate on something
13. ranivorous: frog-eating
14. redamancy:  to return an act of love
15. jocularity: playfulness; intended joking
16. uproarious:  loud laughter; very funny; hilarious
17. goofy: silly
18. abomination: something which is totally detestable
19. galumph: to move heavily or clumsily
20. penurious: extreme poverty; or extreme miserliness (penny-pinching)
21. innocuous:  harmless
22. trepidation:  fearfulness; anxiety
23. nonchalant:  unconcerned; elegantly casual
24. prosaic:  lacking imagination; ordinary
25. malevolent:  evil
26. benevolent:  kindly; good
27. amoral:  lacking a sense of morality (lacking a sense of right and wrong)
28. vex:  to frustrate; to annoy
29. candor:  honesty; frankness
30. arcane:  secret; obscure; known only by a few people
31. temperate:  moderate; restrained behaviour
32. aberration:  something which differs from the norm
33. morose:  gloomy; sullen
34. flummox:  to perplex or to be perplexed by
35. zenith:  the highest point
36. nadir:  the lowest point
37. maudlin:  foolishly or tearfully affectionate
38. censure:  to blame or criticize something or someone
39. transpire:  to occur; to happen
40. ambiguous:  open to more than one interpretation