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.