THE BIG QUESTION

Is there a real true answer to everything? If its not a proven fact then no, they're just opinions..but then again thats just my opinion! (Answering that question is a perfect example)

Vocabulary fall list #10

Pedagogue- teacher or schoolmaster.
Cavernous- Like a cavern in size, shape, or atmosphere. Giving the impression of vast, dark depths.
Coquettish- A woman who makes teasing sexual or romantic overtures; a flirt.
Tête-à-tête- A private conversation between two persons.
Suffice- To meet the needs of something or someone.
Amorous- Showing, feeling, or relating to sexual desire.

Legend of sleepy hallow vocab. list #9

Prudently- common sense; practical
Implore- ask urgently or
Reverie- a spell or trance like state
Sequester- isolate
Apbons- to have popularity
Hessian- german solider
Belated- late or delayed
Inbibed- drunk into something
Oneris- burdensome
Rustic- primitive
Magnanimous- unanimous
Grievous- concern, over the top
Ingratiate- to win favor
Pedagogue- teacher or instructor
Peculiar- strange; unfamiliar or odd  

Vocabulary List Week #8

1. Flout - Willfully disregarding a rule.

2. Caveat - Exception to the rule, but adding change to it.

3. Blazon - To decorate

4. Filch - Stealing something of little value

5. Fractious - bad tempered

6. Equitable - Fair and just

7. Autonomy - Independence; Freedom

8. Addendum - A thing to be added

9. Amnesty - Official pardon

10. Axiomatic - Self evident

11. Extricate - To free from difficulty

12. Soporific - Causing sleep

13. Scathing - Severly scornful

14. Unwieldy - Hard to move or carry

15. Vapid - Flat, tasteless, boring

16. Prognosticate - Foretell a prophesy

17. Sepulchral - Gloomy

18. Salutary - Producing good affects

19. Straitlaced - strict rule, following

20. Scourge - Whip or Lash

21. Precept - General rule to behavior

22. Transient - Last for a short time; or homeless man

Presidential Debate 10/22/12

-Romney says what he's going to do about our nation's problems such as unemployment rates, but has very litte to support his ideas of reformation

-Romney explains that under his presidency we are going to begin to take advantages in other countries such as Latin America, but doesn't give any plans or idea on how to take advantage of them

-Both Romney and Obama get drug into one statistic

-Romney doesn't answer questions clearly

Self-reliance remix

I know this may seem way too short to summarize the whole "self-reliance" essay but I truely  believe you can sum up the whole entire essay in one sentence, "do what you want, what you believe, and what you think is the best for you." Emerson talks about being self reliant.. well you're not born independent. As you go on through life will you learn how to do more and more on your own. If you think about it, for the first stages of your life, you're not self-reliant, you're being trained by your parents so that you can become self-reliant! When that day comes, begin to use your own mind. Take what others have to say into consideration.. think about it, and come up with something original and on your own based on what others say. You're you and no one else, now make it seem like it. YOu have parts in your life when you're not meant to be independent. Its the cycle of someone raising you to be self-reliant then carrying that on through your life onto the next gerneration.

Vocabulary Fall List #7

1. ad infinitum - Latin phrase meaning "to infinity" or "forevermore"

2. apportion - Divide and allocate

3. bona fide - Made or carried out in good faith; sincere

4. buoyant - buoyancy is an upward force exerted by a liquid, gas or other fluid, that opposes the weight of an immersed object. In a column of fluid, pressure ...

5. clique - In the social sciences, the word "clique" is used to describe a group of 2 to 12 (averaging 5 or 6) “persons who interact with each other more regularly.

6. concede - Admit that something is true or valid after first denying or resisting it.

7. congenial -  Pleasant because of a personality, qualities, or interests that are similar to one's own.

8. lofty - extending high in the air; of imposing height; towering 

9. migration - The movement of persons from one country or locality to another.

 

10. perceive - Become aware or conscious of (something); come to realize or understand.

11. perverse - Showing a deliberate and obstinate desire to behave in a way that is unreasonable or unacceptable, often.

12. prelude - An introductory performance, event, or action preceding a more important one.

13. rancid - Having the disagreeable odor or taste of decomposing oils or fats; rank

14. rustic - Lacking refinement or elegance; coarse.

15. sever - Divide by cutting or slicing, esp. suddenly and forcibly.

16. sordid - Involving ignoble actions and motives; arousing moral distaste and contempt.
 

17. untenable -  Not able to be maintained or defended against attack or objection.

18. versatile - Capable of doing many things competently.

19. vindicate - Clear (someone) of blame or suspicion.

20. wane -   To decrease gradually in size, amount, intensity, or degree; decline.

Midterm anwers

Well I wasn't here for the first week so I never knew the first week vocabulary words so I had to look up the definitons so I didn't have as much time to study them. Then when the midterm came the first thing I noticed was a lot of the words on part 1 were from week 1. But being some type of multiple choice helped me too. I think most of the words should stick with me and if they don't atleast they will come back to me quickly. I now know how to prepare myself even better for another midterm.

My walk and how it relates to romanticism

As I go back over and read what I wrote I can easily picture everything all over again. I remember exactly what I saw everytime I wrote something down. Being able to paint a picture in my head step by step, is romanticism on its own because it's like a story I'm reading to myself that I was already in wich make's even easier to see myself in it all over again.

3 credible sites about romanctism

http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/hum_303/romanticism.html
http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/lecture16a.html
http://www.online-literature.com/periods/romanticism.php

A Dream Within a Dream

In Edgar Allan Poe's poem "A Dream Within a Dream" he uses a couple different tones. It starts out with some lines for the reader to think about, almost like a hook sentence in an essay. He uses strong words to paint an image in the audiences' mind. When he asks a question in stanza one it makes the audience kind of question what he's saying or talking about. In the second stanza he starts to change his tone with different puncuations. I think there are many different allusions in this poem that I just haven't noticed yet. 



Vocabulary Fall List #6

1. Adroit - Clever or skillful in using the hands or mind.

2. Amicable -   Having a spirit of friendliness

3. Averse - Having a strong dislike of or opposition to something.             
4. Belligerent - Hostile and aggressive.
5. Benevolent - Well meaning and kindly

6. Cursory - Hasty and therefore not thorough or detailed

7. Duplicity -  Deliberate deceptiveness in behavior or speech

8. Extol - To praise highly

9. Feasible - Possible to do easily or conveniently

10. Grimace - A facial expression usually of disgust, disapproval, or pain.

11. Holocaust - Destruction or slaughter on a mass scale,

12. Impervious - Not allowing something to pass through; not penetrable

13. Impetus - Stimulation or encouragement

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14. Activity - Action in general; Physical exercise activity.

15. Jeopardy - Danger of loss, harm, or failure

16. Meticulous - Showing great attention to detail; very careful and precise.

17. Nostalgia - Sentimental longing for the past. Typically for a period or place with happy personal associations

18. Quintessence - The most perfect or typical example of a quality or class

19. Retrogress - Go back to an earlier state, typically a worse one.
20. Scrutinize - Examine or inspect closely and thoroughly.
21. Tepid - Only slightly warm; lukewarm

 

Vocabulary: Fall List #5

1. Allude - Suggest or call attention to indirectly; hint at.

2. Clairvoyant - The art of 'seeing' beyond the five senses. 

3. Conclusive -  Serving to prove a case; convincing.

4. Disreputable - Not to be considered respectable in character and appearance.

5. Endemic - Natural to or characteristic of a specific people or place; native; indigenous

6. Exemplary - Serving as a desirable model; representing the best of its kind.

7. Fathom - To penetrate to the meaning or nature of; comprehend.

8. Guile - Insidious cunning in attaining a goal; crafty or artful deception.

9. Integrity - Adherence to moral and ethical principles; soundness of moral character; honesty.

10. Itinerary - A planned route or journey.

11. Misconstrue - To mistake the meaning of; misinterpret. 

12. Obnoxious - Annoying or objectionable due to being a showoff or attracting undue attention to oneself.

13. Placate - To appease or pacify, especially by concessions or conciliatory gestures.

14. Placid - Not easily upset or excited.

15. Plagiarism - An act or instance of using exactly or closely imitating.

16. Potent - Having great power, influence, or effect.

17. Pretext - A reason given in justification of a course of action that is not the real reason.

18. Protrude - Extend beyond or above a surface.

19. Stark - Bare or blunt

20. Superficial - Concerned with or comprehending only what is apparent or obvious; shallow.

Vocabulary List #4

1. Melancholy - Sad, gloomy, or depressed.
2. Exemplary - representing the best of its kind.
3. Peculiar - Strange or odd; unusual.
4. Dread - To fear greatly
5. Bough - A main branch of a tree.
6. Pious - earnestly compliant in the observance of religion; devout.
7. Communion - Common participation in a mental or emotional experience.
8. Auditor - An evaluation of a person, organization, system, process, enterprise, project or product. A person who conducts an audit.

9. Multitude - A great number of people gathered together; crowd;
10. Eloquence - Fluent, forcible, elegant or persuasive speak
11. Despair - To lose all hope or confidence
12. Hoary - Grey or white with age / extremely old.

"AHA!"

Today in class I learned how a symbol is basicly just a man-made sign that is supposed to make you think of another image or interpret it into words in your head. Just about everything we see on a daily basis is a symbol, even words! Sadly, a lot of major buisnesses and companies use them to basicly brainwash us into thinking something that is not actually true but yet we still do or buy what they advertiuse as "cool" without even giving it a second thought. I think if we acually sat down and gave some time to think about every symbol we see (wich is near impossible) this whole world and how we live would be looked at in a completely different perspective.

Vocabulary List #3

Vocabulary List #3

 

 

 

1. Encomium - The praise of a person or thing.

2. Coherent - Sticking together; Orderly, logical and consistent.

 

3. Belabor - Argue or elaborate (a subject) in excessive detail

 

4. Bschew - To abstain or keep away from

5. Acquisitive -Excessively interested in acquiring money or material things.

6. Emulate - To match or surpass (a person or achievement), typically by imitation.

7. Arrogate - Take or claim (something) for oneself without justification. To take over.

8. Banal - So lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring.

9. Excoriation - To tear or wear off the skin of;

10. Congeal - To change from a soft or fluid state to a rigid or solid state, as by cooling or freezing

11. Carping - Complain or find fault continually, typically about trivial matters.

12. Substantiate - Provide evidence to support or prove the truth of.

13. Temporize - To act evasively in order to gain time, avoid argument, or postpone a decision:

14. Largesse - Extreme generosity. liberal giving (as of money) to or as if to an inferior

15. Tenable - Able to be maintained or defended against attack or objection. Capable of being held against assault

16. Insatiable - Impossible to satisfy

17.reconnaissance - An inspection or exploration of an area, especially one made to gather military information.

 

18. Germane - Closely or significantly related; relevant; pertinent

19. Ramify - To divide or spread out into branches or branchlike parts; extend into subdivisions.

 

20. Intransigent - Unwilling or refusing to change one's views or to agree about something.

21. Taciturn - Reserved or uncommunicative in speech; saying little.

22. Invidious - Tending to cause discontent, animosity, or envy 

Vocabulary List #2

1. Intercede - To plead on another's behalf.

2. Hackneyed - Overfamiliar through overuse; trite.

3. Approbation - An expression of warm approval; praise.

4. Innuendo - An indirect or subtle, usually derogatory implication in expression; an insinuation.

5. Coalition - An alliance, especially a temporary one, of people, factions, parties, or nations.

6. Elicir - To bring or draw out (something latent); educe.

7. Hiatus - a break or interruption in the continuity of a work, series, action, etc.

8. Assauge - to make milder or less severe; relieve;

9. Decadence - unrestrained or excessive self-indulgence.

10. Expostulate - To reason earnestly with someone in an effort to dissuade or correct.

11. Simulate - To have or take on the appearance, sound, or character of; imitate.

12. Jaded - Cynically or pretentiously callous.

13. Umbrage - Offense or resentment

14. Perogative - A right or privilege exclusive to a particular individual or class.

15. Lurid - Very vivid in color, esp. so as to create an unpleasantly harsh or unnatural effect

16. Transcend - to rise above or go beyond; overpass; exceed

17. Previncial - one living in or coming from a province.

18. Petulant - Childishly sulky or bad-tempered.

19. Unctous - characterized by excessive piousness or moralistic fervor, especially in an affected
manner.

20. Meritorious - Deserving reward or praise; having merit.

Young Goodman Brown

What made him so bored of his everyday routine?
Why did he continue to slowly lose faith throughout the story?
If he had thoughts of it being his mother why was he so afraid?