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 and Debase
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.
Abrogate and Arrogate
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.
Adverse and Averse
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.
Chary, Circumspect, Discreet, Heedful, and Leery
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.
Voc/Voke/Vow
Definition: To Call
Avocation: main occupation
Vocation: hobby
Invoke: to call on a deity or authority
Convoke: to call for a convention or meeting
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 ....
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 and Debase
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.
Abrogate and Arrogate
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.
Adverse and Averse
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.
Chary, Circumspect, Discreet, Heedful, and Leery
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.
Voc/Voke/Vow
Definition: To Call
Avocation: main occupation
Vocation: hobby
Invoke: to call on a deity or authority
Convoke: to call for a convention or meeting
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.