Sunday, April 10, 2016

English 12

Read Chapters 7 and 8 of the class novel and answer the questions on Chapters 5-8.
Your first ten vocabulary words for Test #4 are as follows:

  1. ubiquitous (adj):  appearing everywhere
  2. uncanny (adj):  unsettlingly odd or mysterious; seemingly supernatural
  3. uncouth (adj): rough; uncultured; without manners
  4. cogent (adj):  clever; logical
  5. sham (noun):  falseness; pretense; something counterfeit
  6. ardent (adj):  passionate
  7. winnow (verb):  to separate into components; to shave down; to separate the "wheat from the chaff" (the good from the bad)
  8. vagaries (noun):  random changes
  9. ersatz (adj): an inferior substitute
  10. demure (adj):  shy; reserved