Friday, February 8, 2019

English 10

Period 2
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:

  1. placid (adj):  peaceful; calm 
  2. punctually (adv):  on time; not late 
  3. bewildered (adj): confused 
  4. congeal (verb): to clot; to solidify; to coagulate 
  5. console (verb): to comfort someone who is sad or upset 
  6. trifle (noun): an item of little value or importance 
  7. luxuriate (verb): to enjoy a self-indulgent delight 
  8. well (verb): (of a liquid) rise to the surface and spill; (of an emotion) become more intense 
  9. hysterically (adv): laughing or crying intensely for a prolonged period of time 
  10. exasperated (adj): irritated intensely; infuriated 
  11. desolation (noun) - devastation, ruin, barrenness, dreariness, depopulation  
  12. refuge (n) - a place of safety  
  13. vernacular (n) - plain, everyday ordinary language of a specific place  
  14. rear (verb) - when an animal goes up on its hind legs  
  15. obliquely (adverb) - indirectly, evasively, coming at an angle and not straight on  
  16. divert (v) - to change direction or redirect attention  
  17. perversion (n) - a change from what is natural and normal to what is unnatural and abnormal  
  18. exquisite (adjective) - special beauty or charm, intense feeling such as pleasure or pain  
  19. indomitable (adj) - unbeatable, cannot be conquered  
  20. lacerated (v) - savagely cut or sliced, mangled/jagged/torn  
  21. propinquity(n) - nearness (in place, relationship, or time)  
  22. inimical (adj) - harmful, hostile, unfriendly  
  23. ochre (noun/adjective) - yellow/orange earth or pigments, yellow/orange colour  
  24. trussed (v) - tied tightly, bound up to prevent movement  
  25. fleece (noun) - the soft, woolly hair of a sheep