Today in class, we went over most of the questions on "The Inheritor".
Period 3
Today in class, we went over most of the questions on "The Inheritor". Students are also asked to poetically format their short, descriptive sentences on their photos.
Both classes are asked to study the vocabulary words as the vocab test will be on Feb. 20th. The vocab words are as follows:
- placid (adj): peaceful; calm
- punctually (adv): on time; not late
- bewildered (adj): confused
- congeal (verb): to clot; to solidify; to coagulate
- console (verb): to comfort someone who is sad or upset
- trifle (noun): an item of little value or importance
- luxuriate (verb): to enjoy a self-indulgent delight
- well (verb): (of a liquid) rise to the surface and spill; (of an emotion) become more intense
- hysterically (adv): laughing or crying intensely for a prolonged period of time
- exasperated (adj): irritated intensely; infuriated
- desolation (noun) - devastation, ruin, barrenness, dreariness, depopulation
- refuge (n) - a place of safety
- vernacular (n) - plain, everyday ordinary language of a specific place
- rear (verb) - when an animal goes up on its hind legs
- obliquely (adverb) - indirectly, evasively, coming at an angle and not straight on
- divert (v) - to change direction or redirect attention
- perversion (n) - a change from what is natural and normal to what is unnatural and abnormal
- exquisite (adjective) - special beauty or charm, intense feeling such as pleasure or pain
- indomitable (adj) - unbeatable, cannot be conquered
- lacerated (v) - savagely cut or sliced, mangled/jagged/torn
- propinquity(n) - nearness (in place, relationship, or time)
- inimical (adj) - harmful, hostile, unfriendly
- ochre (noun/adjective) - yellow/orange earth or pigments, yellow/orange colour
- trussed (v) - tied tightly, bound up to prevent movement
- fleece (noun) - the soft, woolly hair of a sheep
