English 10

Make sure that you finish your independent novel review for Friday, January 8th.  I'll post the new vocabulary words later tonight.

Period 5, your words are as follows:

1. lethargic:   lacking in energy; sluggish; apathetic
2. flora:  the plants of a particular region, habitat, or geological period
3. fidelity:  loyalty; faithfulness to a person, cause, or belief
4. cupidity:  greed for money or possessions
5. aphrodisiac:  a food, drink, or drug which stimulates physical desire
6. phobia:  an extreme or irrational fear which interferes with a person's life
7. maniac:  a person with extreme behaviour, esp. violent or dangerous; an obsessive enthusiast
8. mnemonic:  a device that helps one to remember (a short poem, and image, a jingle)
9. mortuary:  a funeral home or morgue
10. panacea:  a solution or remedy for all difficulties or diseases

Period 6, your words are as follows:

1. panacea:  a solution or remedy for all difficulties or diseases
2. geriatrics:  the branch of medicine dealing with the health and care of the elderly
3. cupidity:  greed for money or possessions
4. fidelity:  loyalty; faithfulness to a person, cause, or belief
5. lethargic:  lacking in energy; sluggish; apathetic
6. insomnia:  an inability to sleep
7. Pangaea:  a purported prehistoric super-continent that included all the world's continents before they broke apart
8. martial:  of or appropriate to war; warlike
9. flora:  the plants of a particular region, habitat, or geological period
10. aphrodisiac:  a food, drink, or drug which stimulates physical desire

Period 8, your words are as follows:

1. lethargic:   lacking in energy; sluggish; apathetic
2. panacea:  a solution or remedy for all difficulties or diseases
3. lunatic:  a person with a mental illness (this term is not a term doctors/nurses would use)
4. aphrodisiac:  a food, drink, or drug which stimulates physical desire
5. fidelity:  loyalty; faithfulness to a person, cause, or belief
6. panorama:  a picture or photograph containing a wide view; a complete survey or presentation of a sequence of events
7. mnemonic:  a device that helps one to remember (a short poem, and image, a jingle)
8. geriatrics:  the branch of medicine dealing with the health and care of the elderly
9. mortician:  one who prepares a corpse for burial or cremation and helps with funeral plans
10. lethal:  deadly; the ability to cause death