Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

He revealing doubt, that something seems unreal in the first stanzas. The second he expresses regret in the line "while I weep-while I weep!" All I'm getting is he has doubt and regret to a person he has feelings for.  That he doesn't feel it is real when the line A dream in a dream.

Monday, September 24, 2012

Vocab #6

Adroit: Skillful and adept under pressing conditions. Hostage negotiators must be adroit at their job.

Amicable: Characterized by or showing friendliness; friendly. Adults are amicable to small children.

Averse: Having a feeling of great distaste or aversion. Hitler was averse towards the Jews.


Belligerent: Inclined or eager to fight, hostile or aggressive. People in UFC are belligerent.

Benevolent: Characterized by or suggestive of benevolence; kindly. The man was benevolent to his brother.

Cursory: Hastily and superficially done; Not throughout. Must assignments are in the work of cursory.

Duplicity: Deliberate deceptiveness in behavior or speech; double dealing. Russia is know for doing duplicity dealing.

Extol: To praise highly; laud; eulogize. The people extol the famous.

Feasible: Capable of being done, effected, or accomplished. A back flip is feasible task though a difficult one. 

Grimace:  A facial expressionoften ugly or contorted, that indicates disapproval, pain. The man had a grimace face while looking at the trouble maker.


Holocaust:  A great or complete devastation or destruction, especially by fire. There was so much death is was like a second holocaust.
 

Impervious: Not permitting penetration or passage; impenetrable, incapable of being injured or impaired. The titanic was thought to be a impervious structure.

Impetus: A moving forceimpulse; stimulus. The president speech was impetus.


Jeopardy: Hazard or risk of or exposure to loss, harm, death, or injury. The dream home was in jeopardy.



 Meticulous: Taking or showing extreme care about minute details;precise; thorough. The art of composing can be meticulous.


 Nostalgia: A wistful desire to return in thought or in fact to a formertime in one's life, to one's home or homeland, or to one's family and friends; a sentimental yearning for the happiness of a former place or time. Soldiers in Irag are always nostalgia.


 Quintessence: The pure and concentrated essence of a Substance. People want to know what is the quintessence of chocolate is.


 retrogress: To go backward into an earlier and usually worse condition: I had a cold but it retrogress into the flu. 


 scrutinize: To examine in detail with careful or critical attention. The critic scrutinize the chef recipe.

tepid: Moderately warm; Lukewarm. The gulf of Mexico is tepid.

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

my choice of novel is The sum of all fears by Tom Clancy and yes I have read that 957 page book.

Tuesday, September 18, 2012



Vocab #5

 allude:  to refer casually or indirectly; to contain a casual or indirect reference. The man kept alluding the police. 

clairvoyant:  having or claiming to have the power of seeing objects oractions beyond the range of natural vision. The US in the 1800's was clairvoyant about the land in the west. 

 conclusive: serving to settle or decide a question; decisive; convincing. The professors work on effects of gravity was conclusive to the others.

 disreputable:  not reputablehaving a bad reputation; discreditable; dishonorable. People think the pit bull is a disreputable dog.

 endemic: natural to or characteristic of a specific people or place;native; indigenous . The cheetah has a endemic for being fast.

exemplary:  worthy of imitation; commendable. Steven Hawkins is exemplary.

 fathom:  a unit of length equal to six feet (1.8 meters): used chieflyin nautical measurements. Rock one fathom up ahead captain.

 guile: insidious cunning in attaining a goalcrafty or artful deception.The government runs in a guile manner.

 integrity: adherence to moral and ethical principles; soundness of moral character; honesty. The person who becomes president must have great integrity.

 itinerary: a detailed plan for a journey, ,especially  a list of places to visit; plan of travel. A traveler must have a itinerary plan on his trip. 

misconstrue: to misunderstand the meaning of; take in a wrong sense;misinterpret.  Some people may think the the right to bear arms is misconstrue.

obnoxious: highly objectionable or offensive; odious: obnoxious behavior. My sister is very obnoxious. 


 placate: to appease or pacify, especially by concessions or conciliatory gestures: to placate an outraged citizenry. 

 placid: pleasantly calm or peaceful; unruffled; tranquil; serenely quiet or undisturbed: placid waters. The mood in the house was placid.

 plagiarism: an act or instance of using or closely imitating the language and thoughts of another author withoutauthorization and the representation of that author's work as one's own, as by not crediting the original author: I just plagiarize by copying the definition.   

 potent: powerful; mighty: a potent fighting force. The c02 is potent to us.

 pretext: something that is put forward to conceal a true purpose or objectan ostensible reason; excuse. The authors purpose is in the pretext. 

 protrude: to project. Sorry I don't wish to protrude but you don't know what you are talking about.

 stark: extremely simple or severe. The child;s design was Starkey.

 superficial: being at, on, or near the surface. His his work work on the project was superficial.

Sunday, September 16, 2012