Monday, November 16, 2015

English 10, Period 5

Please answer questions 1-4 on "The Metaphor".  You can find a copy of the story here.

Also, here are the first two weeks of vocabulary words for our next vocabulary test:
  1. serendipity: luck finding good
  2. adjacent:  next to; adjoining
  3. atrocious: especially vicious or repellant
  4. detrimental: something which creates a bad or negative effect
  5. opportune: well-suited and well-chosen timing
  6. ailurophile: cat lover
  7. oblivious: totally unaware
  8. ebullience:  bubbly enthusiasm
  9. fabricate:  to make; invent
  10. to loom: to hover over someone/something in a threatening manner
  11. espionage:  the act of spying, involving countries or corporations/industries
  12. vicinity:  area
  13. redistribution:  the act of sharing something between people in a different way
  14. abibliophobia:  the fear of running out of books to read
  15. jubilation:  extreme happiness; great rejoicing
  16. intrepid:  fearless
  17. cantankerous:  testy; cranky; bad-tempered
  18. feral:  savage; wild
  19. lurid:  shocking; sensational
  20. intrinsic:   extremely important and basic to the nature of a thing/person; in-born

I have substituted intrinsic for errorist: for while errorist is a fun word, it is not yet an official one.  It is still new and not widely used.  Therefore, please score errorist from your list and add intrinsic.

errorist:  one who makes many mistakes