English 10, Period 6

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. masochist: a person who enjoys receiving pain
2. sadist: a person who enjoys inflicting pain
3. conspicuous: obvious
4. land lubber: a person who spends most of his/her life on land (not at sea)
5. misogynist: a person who hates women
6. purport: to make a false or questionable claim
7. eminence: high placement/elevation or importance in rank
8. misanthrope: a person who hates others (mankind/humanity)
9. gullible:  easily fooled; easily duped
10. presumptuous: a person rudely bold; one who goes beyond the limits of what is acceptable
11. devious: underhanded; dishonest; cunning
12. imbibe: to drink (often alcohol); to absorb ideas--this is a lesser used meaning
13. logophile: a lover of words
14. flamboyant: loud and showy; attracting attention
15. frivolous: lack of seriousness; lack of sense
16. plethora: an abundance; and excessive amount
17. vile: evil or disgusting
18. tommyrot:  complete and utter nonsense
19. void: the emptiness and lack of life that is space (noun--I'll test you on the noun) OR to cancel--as in a cheque--or to empty--as in one's bladder (verb)
20. delirious: confused; hallucinating; in an acutely disturbed state of mind resulting from illness or intoxication and characterized by restlessness, illusions, and incoherence of thought and speech