English 12

On Tuesday, you will write a paragraph explaining whether you think the barber in "Just Lather, That's All" is heroic or unheroic.  Also, here is a completed list of your vocabulary words:

1. coddle: to overprotect
2. erudite: sophisticated; worldly
3. saxicolous: one who is unaware; one who "lives under a rock"
4. boisterous: rough and noisy
5. nefarious: wicked
6. comprehensive: including all elements or aspects of a thing
7. impavid: fearless; intrepid
8. etiquette: manners; customary codes of polite behaviour
9. feign: to pretend
10. noxious: harmful or corrupt
11. obtuse:  stupid or dense; annoyingly insensitive
12. dwale: to wander deliriously or as if one were asleep; a sleeping draught made from the plant known as the deadly nightshade
13. bias: prejudice in favour or against a thing
14. beset:  threaten persistently
15. obsolete:  outdated; no longer of use
16. banal:  repeated often; boring; ordinary
17. apprise: to give notice; to inform
18. irenic: to promote peace
19. repertoire: a stock of pieces used for performance
20. stoic:  emotionless; strong in the face of adversity; uncomplaining during adversity
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 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