English 10, Period 8

For homework, bring in two copies of one of your extended metaphors that we wrote in class.  Make sure you have at least 3 points of comparison in your extended metaphor.  You need to make sure that you are comparing an emotion to an animal.  Here is an example:

Anger is a panther.  

It focuses on its prey; stalks it silently.  Then with an ear-splitting roar, it pounces, tearing its victim from limb to limb.  It will be satisfied only when it can walk away from the bloody pulp of its enemy.

Here all the 40 vocabulary words for Vocabulary Test 2:

1. contentment:  the state of wanting for nothing; happily satisfied
2. mitigate: to make less severe, less serious, or less painful
3. grim:  looking/being harsh or stern
4. draconian: harsh or severe in manner
5. misogynist: a person who hates women
6. misanthrope: a person who hates others (mankind/humanity)
7. masochist: a person who enjoys receiving pain
8. sadist: a person who enjoys inflicting pain
9. profuse: abundant
10. tacit: agreement or understanding without words/silent agreement or silent understanding
11. uxoricide:  the act of killing one's wife
12. pulchritude:  beauty
13. intrinsic: extremely important and basic to the nature of a thing/person; in-born
14. consolidate:  to unite; to bring together
15. neophyte:  an amateur; someone who is completely new to a place or a process
16. covet:  to be envious; to desire what another person has
17. charisma: charm; a magnetic quality which attracts people
18. largesse:  bounty; generosity
19. infatuated: to be intensely passionate about someone or something
20. enfeebled:  to make weak or feeble
21. loom:  to hover in a threatening manner (verb)
22. lurid:  scandalous; shocking
23. detrimental:   having a bad or negative effect
24. purport:  to make a false or questionable claim
25. serendipity:  good luck; happy chance
26. torrid:  blistering hot; passionate
27. tommyrot:  utter nonsense
28. austere: extremely plain/unadorned; strict in manner, attitude or appearance
29. slugabed:  a lazy person who stays in bed long past the time he or she should rise
30. elucidate:  to make clear through explanation; to shed light on something
31. martyr:  one who dies for a cause
32. insatiable:  cannot be satisfied/filled
33. indulge:  to allow oneself or someone else the pleasure of doing something
34. genii:  more than one genius
35. sycophant: a toady; one who uses flattery to get ahead
36. miniscule:  extremely small in size
37. exacerbate:  to make something worse
38. masticate:  to chew
39. imbibe:  to drink (usually alcohol); to absorb an idea
40. poignant:  painfully moving; touching