Day+7

Hello Carol,

Today is THE review day. Well, I know I haven't informed you about this before, but I guessed you would agree on having this day, too. (because, remembering the words is much more important than posting the words!)

So here we go. You don't need to post for today. : )

Oh, by the way - I'm sorry about the changing formats... I just thought I might give some change so as to make it interesting. The paragraph thing for yesterday was just out of whim... and, for now I think my default will be:

1. Ordinary Words (which will most likely be synonyms): 3 2. Confusing Words (which will be one pair per day, meaning two words): 2 3. And maybe a root word thing, if I feel like the vocab for the day is easier than the other days.

You can adopt any style of posting you want, and if you have any concerns regarding the format above, tell me so I can modify it : )

Okay then, let's start.

First look at the words. See if you know the meaning. If you don't, //then// refer to the definitions.

Abase: to humiliate, degrade; The teacher was enraged when her student abased her teaching abilities. Debase: to lower the quality or value of; The wish for popularity debased her good cause for charity.
 * Abase and Debase**

Abrogate: to abolish by authority; The legislature abrogated abortion. Arrogate: to take a power or position w/o the right to it; The principal arrogated himself with the power to expel anyone he hated.
 * Abrogate and Arrogate**

Adverse: unfavorable; The adverse winds stopped our car from reaching home. Averse: to have strong hatred towards; I am averse towards bull dogs; I have a bad memory of being bitten by one.
 * Adverse and Averse**

Chary: wary towards danger; He's chary of slipping on the stairs. Circumspect: thoughtful and chary in action; She's circumspect when making important decisions. Discreet: circumspect (not telling secrets, etc.); Louis was discreet about the secret birthday party. Heedful: careful and attentive; Julia is always heedful and checks her actions to make sure she hasn't offended anyone. Leery: wary due to suspicion; Although I continuously told her that I was a student, she look at me with leery eyes and didn't let me into the school.
 * Chary, Circumspect, Discreet, Heedful, and Leery**

Definition: To Call Avocation: main occupation Vocation: hobby Invoke: to call on a deity or authority Convoke: to call for a convention or meeting
 * Voc/Voke/Vow**

The Remaining Words:

Here I am going to mention brief segments of our sentences so that we can remember them to link the word with : ) For instance, you could always think of a really bad elementary band when thinking of cacophony!

BALK : to stop, block abruptly "balked at" = The boss balked at the idea of a raise in salary. CACOPHONY : disharmonious sound, tremendous noise = Elementary band, SO many flutes CADENCE : rhythm, progression of sound = reciting a poem MISSIVE: letter, written communication = you give this to me (as Anne does to Gilbert!) PLETHORA: plenty; superabundance, overfullness = plethora of stories to tell me FATHOM: understand = I will fathom your stories PONTIFICATE: expressing opinion pompously, dogmatically = Andy and his lessons with super vocab EDIFY: instruct, improve morally / intellectually = Andy's lesson... failure

ABATE: to reduce, lessen (ex: rain) = rain BANE: burden = Ms. Reed and Jane CAJOLE: coax, urge = go to baseball game, please? CALAMITY: event w/ disastrous consequences = calamity of WW II EBULLIENT: enthusiastic, extremely lively = super happy BALLAD: love song = Romeo and Juliet BANAL: commonplace SANGUINE: optimistic, hopeful = you and me VENEER: facade = 내숭 VERACIOUS: honest, truthful = truthful TERSE: short, abrupt = terse reply to irritating boyfriend RECALCITRANT: disobedient; having uncooperative (unmanageable, stubborn) attitude towards discipline = children in class

DEFIANT: disobedient, resistent = recalcitrant FECKLESS: lacking efficiency, vitality = weak baby sucking on mother's bosom 뭔가 가여운 느낌... ALARMIST: causing unnecessary alarm = hey, the test is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO hard. EMOTE: portray emotion (theatrically) = verb form of emotion PERFUNCTORY: action carried out w/minimum effort, usual = professor and his perfunctory comments DERAIL: to cause to leave track = the small kid in the train track derailed the train LEVITY: light humor, especially to cover seriousness = I think of Walter.... OBFUSCATE: to render obscure, unclear, or unintelligible, bewilder sb

DRACONIAN: excessively severe and harsh = wearing suit to school JITTER: extreme nervousness, act nervously = jitter before test DEFT: skillful and quick, skill and cleverness = deft hands of the pottery maker NOISOME: having extremely offensive smell, disagreeable, unpleasant = G-dragon scandals HIATUS: pause or gap in a sequence, series, process = intermission between plays

SAGA: heroic story = Napoleon BELATED: delayed = happy belated birthday! DECREPIT: worn out, due to age = old IMPERTURBABLE: tranquil, calm = tranquil and calm reading VACILLATE: to waver between 2 choices = AP Bio and WH

PRUDENT: wise = I always think of prudent with owl. Prudent Owl with giant glasses (like in Winnie the Pooh) IMPRUDENT: not wise = opp. of prudent owl... SCRUPULOUS: conscientious = 양심적인 PUNCTILIOUS: attention to detail = 하나하나 꼼꼼히 체크하는 사람의 이미지 ABJURE: to renounce = Historian's many hats, abjure your heretical statements EVANESCENT: not lasting = test worries ERADICATE: destroy = HULK GUILE: sly and cunning intelligence = making excuses, if you've read the crucible, Abilgail has much guile... PALL: becoming less appealing (because you've met for too long) = couples that have been together for years

WHEW !!!!! Finally done ....

Yay, see you tomorrow, Carol. A new week begins.