Week 13 Vocab

1. ascertain: to make certain, clear, or definitely known; determine
2. cogent: convincing or believable; to the point; relevant
3. dissuade: persuade not to do something
4. exorbitant: highly excessive
5. furtive: stealthy, secretly; sly; shiftly
6. impervious: unable to be penetrated, injured, or influenced
7. impute: to attribute a characteristic to; charge with fault
8. nebulous: hazy, vague, indistinct, or confused
9. obstreperous: noisy, clamorous, or boisterous
10. sinuous: indirect; devious; winding

Serious Frog Jumpin' in Calaveras County

Week 12 Vocab

1. diatribe: bitter denunciation
2. esthetics: appreciation of beauty or god taste, as in fine arts
3. fortify: to strengthen
4. interminable: no limits; incessant; unending
5. inured: accustom to accept something undesirable; become advantage of
6. mordant: biting or caustic in manner; sarcastic
7. pragmatic: practical point of view or practical consideration
8. specious: apparently good/right but lacking merit; superficially pleasing
9. surreptitiously: done in stealthy way; secret or unauthorized
10. vernacular: native of language, place, or time period

What will happen next?

I had never been exposed to the story that we are watching right now until this year in class. The bell rang today at what seemed to be the climax. Anyone who has never read/watched the ending, what do you think is going to happen?

Personally, I don't really know. It could be a tragedy where he gives the potion to her and lives alone, forever in agony, or he could get selfish. I don't know. Does anyone else have thoughts?

Week 11 Vocab

Hey everyone! Hope you all had a good spring break. I figured it was my turn to post vocab so here are the words for week 11.
1. corrugated: to draw or bend into folds or alternate furrows and ridges; wrinkled; furrow
2. defunct: no longer in effect or use; not operating or functioning; dead
3. dilatory: delay or procrastinate; slow; tardy
4. disheveled: untidy; unkempt; disorderly
5. distraught: distracted; deranged; crazed
6. laudable: deserving praise
7. lethargic: drowsy; sluggish
8. menagerie: diverse; miscellaneous group
9. meretricious: flashy/vulgar attraction
10. notoriety: widely known
See you all tomorrow.

How's Of Mice and Men coming? Just as a reminder, you should be nearing the end of the book.

Homework

I can't find Resistance to Civil Government in the book. I found Civil Disobedience which is a part of Resistance to Civil Government, I think. And I looked on the Internet, and still can't find it. Did anyone find it?