Wednesday, September 21, 2016
vocab list #4
Intermittent-occuring at irregular intervals; not continues or steady
Ebb- movement out to see
Regress-return to a former or less delevoped state
Tendency- an inclination towards a paticular charactheristic
Antiseptic- of relating to or denoting substances that prevent the growthof diseases causing microrganism- a microscopic organism. Bacteruim, viruis, or fungus.
Ebb- movement out to see
Regress-return to a former or less delevoped state
Tendency- an inclination towards a paticular charactheristic
Antiseptic- of relating to or denoting substances that prevent the growthof diseases causing microrganism- a microscopic organism. Bacteruim, viruis, or fungus.
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
vocab list #3
Coherent- logical and consistent
Belabor- to argue or elabrote
Eschew- deliberately avoid using
Acquisitive- intrested in acquiring material thhings
Emulate- to match or surpass
Banal- lacking in orginatlly
Exorcation- to strip off or remove
Congeal- to chnage from soild to fluid
Carpling- diffcult to please
Substaniate- to provide evedince to support
Temporize- to avoid pn making a decscion
Largesse- genoristy on be townsing money or gifts
Tenable- able to be mainted or defend ny an attack
Insatiable- impossible to satisy
Reconmanissance- miltary observation of region to locate an enemy
Germane- relevant to subject under consideration
Ramify- form branches or off shoots
Intransigent- unwriting or refusing to change ones view to agree to something
Taciturn- saying little
Belabor- to argue or elabrote
Eschew- deliberately avoid using
Acquisitive- intrested in acquiring material thhings
Emulate- to match or surpass
Banal- lacking in orginatlly
Exorcation- to strip off or remove
Congeal- to chnage from soild to fluid
Carpling- diffcult to please
Substaniate- to provide evedince to support
Temporize- to avoid pn making a decscion
Largesse- genoristy on be townsing money or gifts
Tenable- able to be mainted or defend ny an attack
Insatiable- impossible to satisy
Reconmanissance- miltary observation of region to locate an enemy
Germane- relevant to subject under consideration
Ramify- form branches or off shoots
Intransigent- unwriting or refusing to change ones view to agree to something
Taciturn- saying little
young goodman brown questions
1. What do you think hawthornes purpose was writing this story?
answer: i think his purpose was that people arent what they seem to be.
2.Hawthorne states that browns wife is " aptly named" faith. After reading the story, do you agree? does faith name fit her personilaty ? does brown have true faith in her?
answer; no, because she was evil.
3. What do you think the pink ribbions signfy?
answer; i think it signfy the good in people.
4. what was everything Brown witnessed real, a figment of his imagantion, something conjured by eveil, or evil or a dream ?Support your answer from the test.
answer: I think what he witnessed was a dream from his childhood
5. Who do you think the old man really is? what textual clues tell you this?
answer:i think the old man was a evil person .
6.What does the staff repersent? Do you think the staff leads Brown onward or is the primary motivtor Browns own concesince/mind?
answer: the staff repersents the old man that is leading Brown futher to the forest
7. if Bown had not ventured into the forest, how would his life be different? If he'd stayed home, would brow atill have faith? would he still trust and his fellow townspeople
answer: i think if brown stayed home it wouldnt change a thing because he would still have fiath with him.
answer: i think his purpose was that people arent what they seem to be.
2.Hawthorne states that browns wife is " aptly named" faith. After reading the story, do you agree? does faith name fit her personilaty ? does brown have true faith in her?
answer; no, because she was evil.
3. What do you think the pink ribbions signfy?
answer; i think it signfy the good in people.
4. what was everything Brown witnessed real, a figment of his imagantion, something conjured by eveil, or evil or a dream ?Support your answer from the test.
answer: I think what he witnessed was a dream from his childhood
5. Who do you think the old man really is? what textual clues tell you this?
answer:i think the old man was a evil person .
6.What does the staff repersent? Do you think the staff leads Brown onward or is the primary motivtor Browns own concesince/mind?
answer: the staff repersents the old man that is leading Brown futher to the forest
7. if Bown had not ventured into the forest, how would his life be different? If he'd stayed home, would brow atill have faith? would he still trust and his fellow townspeople
answer: i think if brown stayed home it wouldnt change a thing because he would still have fiath with him.
my english vocab
Theme- The central message
Mood- The emotion of the reader
Diction- The words of an author uses to tell a story
Syntax- How the author organizez the words in a story
Apothesis- The ideal example, quinces sense
Stupid- lacking intelligence or common sense
Adumbrate- A faint image or the sketch
Ascetic- A person who practices severe selfdiscipline & abstention
Bauble- A baton formerly used as a emblem by jesters
Beguile- Charm or enchant (someone), sometimes in a deceptive
way to influence by trickery, flattery, etc.
Burgeon- To grow or develop quickly
Complement- Something that completes or makes perfect
Contumacious- Stubbornly or willfully disobedient to authority
Curmudgeon- A bad tempered person
Didactic- A moral instruction
Mood- The emotion of the reader
Diction- The words of an author uses to tell a story
Syntax- How the author organizez the words in a story
Apothesis- The ideal example, quinces sense
Stupid- lacking intelligence or common sense
Adumbrate- A faint image or the sketch
Ascetic- A person who practices severe selfdiscipline & abstention
Bauble- A baton formerly used as a emblem by jesters
Beguile- Charm or enchant (someone), sometimes in a deceptive
way to influence by trickery, flattery, etc.
Burgeon- To grow or develop quickly
Complement- Something that completes or makes perfect
Contumacious- Stubbornly or willfully disobedient to authority
Curmudgeon- A bad tempered person
Didactic- A moral instruction
Friday, September 9, 2016
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