Thursday, April 14, 2016

English 10, Period 8

Finish your "First Day" journals and start collecting five new vocabulary words and definitions for next Thursday.

Your vocabulary words for week one are as follows:

Block 8 
1.       sanguine (adj):  optimistic; positive, especially in trying circumstances
2.       ubiquitous (adj):  appearing everywhere at once
3.       harrowing (adj):  acutely distressing
4.       juggernaut (noun):  something which is extremely large, powerful, and unstoppable
5.       superfluous (adj):  unnecessary, especially through being more than enough
6.       foreboding (n):  a feeling that something bad will happen; a premonition of something bad
7.       plight  (n):  a dangerous, difficult, or otherwise unfortunate situation
8.       conflagration (n):  an extensive, destructive fire; a large, violent/dangerous situation
9.       (on) tenterhooks (n):  in a state of anxious suspense
10.   ersatz (adj):  an inferior substitute