| Verb Tense Exercise 22 | Simple Present and Simple Future |
| bemused: bleated: apathy, disdain, diverse, enigma, futile, gratuitous, hackneyed, incessant, |
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Middle School Word List
| Verb Tense Exercise 18 | Will and Be Going to squander, theoretical, |
| Verb Tense Exercise 19 | Will and Be Going to |
candid, inevitable, lethargy, morose, novice,
obscure, ostentatious, quiescent, repose, repudiate, soporific, spontaneous,
eccentric, fallacious, indifferent,
inquisitive, meticulous, pertinent, plausible, reticent,
, pedantic
abstract, aesthetic, benevolent,
capricious, complacent, conciliatory, devious, diligent, discernible, dogmatic,
| Verb Tense Exercise 16 | Present and Past Tenses with Non-Continuous Verbs |
| Verb Tense Exercise 14 | Present Perfect, Past Perfect, Present Perfect Continuous, and Past Perfect Continuous |
| Verb Tense Exercise 13 | Past Perfect and Past Perfect Continuous |
yearn: to want something very much, often with a
feeling of sadness because of the difficulty of
getting it
tangible: able to be touched
gaunt: very thin, to the point of starving
clairvoyant,
chicanery, cognizant, complacent, compulsory, conciliatory,
conjecture, conspicuous, deleterious, destitute, deviate, (-25-)
devious, diligent succinct
derision: mockery or a show of contempt
dismay: to cause somebody to feel discouraged or
disappointed
entrepreneur: someone who sets up and finances a
new business
perilous: involving great danger
| Verb Tense Exercise 21 | Simple Present and Simple Future |
| Verb Tense Exercise 20 | Will and Be Going to |
| Verb Tense Exercise 15 | Present Continuous, Simple Past, Present Perfect Continuous & Past Perfect Continuous |
| Verb Tense Exercise 17 | Present and Past Tense Review |
boisterous: full of noisy enthusiasm and energy
remnant: a small part of something that remains
after the rest has gone
carouse: to drink and become noisy, especially
in a group
pacify: to calm somebody who is angry
vulgar: lacking in courtesy and manners
wrath: full of anger
brandish: to wave something about, especially a
weapon
cognizant cognition
lackadaisical
foreshadow
malign
prosaic avarice
furtive
tumult
doughty
credulity
fusillade
foreboding misinformation
wantonLogical
Fallacy (logical fallacy) Topic of the week:
Ad Hominem: /
Ad Hominem (Argument To The Man) /
Ad Hominem Tu Quoque
Ad hominem or ATTACKING THE PERSON.
Attacking the arguer rather than his/her
argument. Example: His objections to
capital punishment carry no weight because
he is a convicted felon.
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Verb Tense Exercise 11
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Simple Past and Past Perfect |
Kindred, by Octavia Estelle Butler (bio)
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/butler_octavia_estelle.html
An interview with the author:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/01/books/01butler.htmlabruptly (adv.): suddenly; almost rudely
apprehensive (adj.): anxious; fearful
complacently (adv.): in a pleased, satisfied
manner
derogatory (adj.): belittling and insulting
dousing (n): to douse is to be drenched with
liquid. A dousing refers to someone having been
covered with a liquid, in this case water,
during a washing.
mollified (adj.): soothed; pacified
ominously (adv.): in a threatening way
precede (v.): go before or ahead of
pugnacious (adj.): eager and ready to fight
scourges (n.): a scourge is anything that
inflicts discomfort or suffering; in this case,
any variety of insects and pests
slough (v): get rid of
stocky (adj.): heavily and solidly builtLogical
Fallacy of the week.
Amphiboly:
With
amphiboly,
the structure of a sentence allows two different
interpretations.
Syntactical ambiguity involving the position of
words in a
sentence or the juxtaposition of two sentences that leads to
communication of
an erroneous idea. This fallacy is like equivocation except
that the ambiguity
does not result from a shift in meaning of a single word or phrase,
but is created
by word placement. Example:
Jim said he saw Jenny walk her dog through the
window. [This was supposed to relate Jim’s sighting of Jenny through
the window,
not Jenny’s passing bodily through the window.]
secular
| Verb Tense Exercise 10 | Present Continuous and Present Perfect Continuous |
recondite Denying
the Antecedent: If A then B,
Not A, thus Not B
When
denying the antecedent
(An invalid form of the conditional argument),
the
second premise denies the antecedent of the
first premise, and the
conclusion
denies the
consequent. Often mistaken for
modus tollens. Example: If she
qualifies for a promotion, she must speak English. She
doesn’t qualify for
the promotion, so she must not know how to speak English.
inveteratesuperstitiously
ford: a shallow place in a river where people
can cross
dilapidated: shabby and neglected
sovereigns: British gold coins
sagacity: wisdom
luxury: an item that is desirable but not
essential
indignation: anger because somebody seems unfair
or unreasonable
inestimable: priceless; beyond measure
disreputable: not respectable
amenable: open to suggestions
edifice: a building
destitute: poverty-stricken; in great need
imperious: commanding; powerful
commiserate: sympathize; to share someone else's
suffering
osmosis
ameliorate
| Verb Tense Exercise 12 | Simple Past, Present Perfect, and Past Perfect |
malleable
New Archive:
4. When you find time this summer, take this exam: viable, zeal, babble... euphemism, pragmatic, tome, epilogue, cogent, ventures, pragmatic, tome, epilogue, cogent, euphemism, feasibility, hierarchy, imposing, incorporation, indentured, inhabitants, collusion,Exercise 4
1. ANTITHESIS direct opposite| Verb Tense Exercise 9 | Present Continuous and Present Perfect Continuous |
| ambition | ambitious | ||
| comfort | comfort | comfortable | |
| fright | frighten | frightening | |
| gratefulness | grateful | ||
| horror | horrify | horrible | |
| jealousy | jealous | ||
| origin | originate | original | |
| reason | reason | reasonable | |
| superstition | superstitious | ||
| technique | technical | ||
| value | value | valuable |
Simple Past and Present Perfect
Keep a copy of your results and we will go
over questions
you missed.
feudalism, flourished, heathenism, heretics,
abolish, absolutism, abundance,
accelerated, accumulated, ad hoc, adept, anarchy, arbitrary,
aristocrats, ascendancy, assertive, atrocities, autocratic,
barbaric, beneficiaries, bureaucrats, byproducts, efficacy,
expedientSimple Present and Present Continuous
Verb Tense Exercise 2exerted, enticing, repudiate, licentious, benevolent, lucrative,Simple Present and Present Continuous
Verb Tense Exercise 3Simple Past and Past Continuous
Verb Tense Exercise 44. Here are the rest of the Pronoun Agreement exercises
Do the next pronoun exercise. Print
out the handout, then go through the interactive exercise and record
your answers on the handout. Keep track of which ones you miss
by marking them on the handout....and we will review any that you
miss. Always read what it says after you get an answer either
right or wrong. These exercises will help you learn pronoun
use. It's tricky.
Pronoun Agreement
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Exercise 5
Exercise 3
Present Perfect and Present Perfect Continuous
Present Perfect and Present Perfect ContinuousSimple Past and Past Continuous
Simple Past and Present Perfect
Will review more later...propitious vestige notorious implement
arbitrary provincial chasm contrived
VENIAL VENERATE
VERNACULAR VICISSITUDE VINDICATE
VITUPERATE VOCIFEROUS VOLATILE
VOLITION VORACIOUS
xercise 4
Exercise 5
existential VITUPERATE VOCIFEROUS
VOLATILE VOLITION
VORACIOUS
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Exercise 2
forsake hindrance farcical elliptical prolific assimilate celibacy
palpable grandiose despot
auspicious
heterogeneous
fickle
indiscreet
diligent
constitute
ameliorate
consonate
concord
deleterious
peripatetic
loquacious
compose
apathy
cacophony
exalt
poignant
predilection
propensity
sloth
impartial precedent figurative reiterate prudent negligence innocuous lax precipitate equivocate assiduous aptitude circumspect metamorphosis substantive
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| subjective |
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beset |
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countenance |
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cursory |
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charisma |
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demagogue |
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placate |
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indigenous |
| pronoun |
| patriarch paternal |
| sensory |
| qualitative |
| misanthropic |
| felicity |
| obsequious |
| equitable equity equal |
| expropriate |
| noxious |
| chivalrous knights |
Why
America hates football
Do you agree, or disagree?
Why? What do you think? Has
this changed since 2004 when this was written? Provide a thesis
(your
opinion or main idea) and prove it...
using material from the reading. (or other material and ideas)
| anarchy | absence of any form of political authority | lawlessness |
| contradiction | ||
| through | ||
| by | ||
| than | ||
| as | ||
| idiom | ||
| demagogue |
| abstruse | difficult to understand; recondite | hard to understand |
| elusive | difficult to define or describe | hard to pin down |
| taciturn | habitually untalkative | naturally untalkative |
| ephemeral |
lasting for a markedly brief time |
lasting very short time |
| quantitative | of or relating to number or quantity | having to do with quantity |
| relegate | to send to a place of exile; banish | banish |
| conciliatory | to make or attempt to make compatible; reconcile | making peace |
| appropriate | to take possession of or make use of exclusively for oneself, often without permission | take without permission |
| concurrent | happening at the same time | parallel |
| complicity | involvement as an accomplice in a questionable act or a crime | participation in wrongdoing |
| And still more! | ||
| equivocal | ||
| lampoon | a broad satirical piece that uses ridicule to attack a person, a group or an institution | satirize |
| nepotism | ||
| antecedent | ||
| syntax | ||
| cumbersome | ||
| subjective | ||
| imperative | ||
| mitigate | ||
| objective | ||
| expletive |
Prepositions and Sentence Structure. October 8,
Sunday. (Syntax)
We did not do vocabulary, but went over exercise one.
Write for fifteen minutes each on four of these descriptive topics.
1. Describe your bedroom or your favorite room.
2. Your favorite place.
3. A teacher, relative or friend you will never forget.
4. Your favorite pet or type of animal (s).
5. Your favorite food or meal.
6. A description of your choice.
| acrimonious | bitter, sharp, ill-natured animosity, especially as it is exhibited in speech or behavior | harsh |
| nuance |
| aversion |
| implication |
| liability |
| heed |
| pedantic |
| nebulous | lacking definite form or limits; vague | vague |
| stratum | a horizontal layer of material, especially one of several parallel layers arranged one on top of another | layer |
| equivocate | to avoid making an explicit statement | say confusing things |
| substantive | not imaginary; actual; real | having substance |
| diverse | differing one from another | varied |
| solicitous | marked by or given to anxious care and often hovering attentiveness | eager and attentive |
| inclement | stormy; showing no clemency; unmerciful | bad, as in weather |
| obscure | not clearly understood or expressed; ambiguous or vague | hard to understand |
| jeopardy | risk of loss or injury; peril or danger | danger |
| . placate | to allay the anger of, especially by making concessions; appease | pacify |
| 17. indigenous | intrinsic; innate | native |
| 18. labyrinth | an intricate structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to find one's way | maze |
| 19. exacerbate | to increase the severity, violence, or bitterness of; aggravate | make worse |
| 20. incense | to cause to be extremely angry; infuriate | make very angry |
| 1. engender | to bring into existence; give rise to | cause to exist |
| 2. vitiate | to reduce the value or impair the quality of | make impure |
| 3. pacify | to ease the anger or agitation of | calm someone down |
| 4. dearth | a scarce supply; a lack | lack |
| 5. indolence | being disinclined to exert oneself; habitually lazy | lazy |
| 6. marred | damaged, especially disfiguring damage | damaged or bruised |
| 7. indolent | disinclined to exert oneself; habitually lazy | lazy |
| 8. supercilious | feeling or showing haughty disdain | haughty |
| 9. squander | to spend wastefully or extravagantly; dissipate | waste |
| 10. ardent | expressing or characterized by warmth of feeling; passionate | passionate |
| 11. beset | to trouble persistently; harass | harass |
| 12. countenance | appearance-especially the expression of the face | face |
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| 13. cursory | performed with haste and scant attention to detail |
| 14. charisma | a rare personal quality attributed to leaders who arouse fervent popular devotion and enthusiasm |
| 15. demagogue | a leader who obtains power by means of impassioned appeals to the emotions and prejudices of the populace |
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OPULENCE
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Etymology
ambiguous
blatant
patronized
LACONIC
OBSCURE
OBSEQUIOUS
OBSTREPEROUS
OBTUSE
OBVIATE
ODIOUS
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CAPTIVATE to fascinate 1.
coherence Respecting 1. CHIDE to scold 1. CHIDE to scold 1. COROLLARY inference; result Vocabulary for next meeting.. 1. DILIGENT industrious 10. DOCILE easy to handle; submissive |
| docile | ready and willing to be taught; teachable | easily taught |
| impartial | not partial or biased; unprejudiced | fair |
| precedent | an act of instance that may be used as an example in dealing with subsequent similar instances | earlier example |
| figurative | based on or making use of figures of speech; metaphorical | based on figures of speech |
| daunt | to abate the courage of; discourage | make fearful |
| rudimentary | of or relating to basic facts or principles; elementary | basic |
| credulous | disposed to believe too readily; gullible | eager to believe |
| lucid | easily understood; intelligible | easy to understand |
| sacrosanct | regarded as sacred and inviolable | sacred |
| nepotism | favoritism shown or patronage granted to relatives, as in business | favoritism |
| assiduous | constant in application or attention; diligent |
| aptitude | an inherent ability, as for learning; a talent |
| circumspect | heedful of circumstances and potential consequences; prudent |
| metamorphosis | a transformation, as by magic or sorcery |
| reiterate | to say or do again or repeatedly | say again |
| prudent | careful in regard to one's own interest; provident | careful |
| negligence | failure to exercise the degree of care considered reasonable under the circumstances; carelessness | carelessness |
| innocuous | having no adverse effect; harmless | harmless |
| lax | lacking in rigor, strickness, or firmness; careless | careless; not diligent |
| precipitate | to cause to happen, especially suddenly or prematurely | cause to happen abruptly |
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