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 * Week 1**

I. Definitions: NAT: to be born 1. naive: adj. innocent; gullible 2. naturalize: v. to give citizenship to one foreign born 3. innate: adj. inborn (You're born with it.) FACT: make 4. factious: adj. argumentative; inclined to dissent 5. facile: adj. easy (as a "facile imagination") 6. facsimile: n. an exact copy AB: away from 7. abdicate: v. to give up; renounce 8. aberration: n. a straying from the norm; abnormality 9. abjure: v. to renounce (upon oath); to swear away 10. abscond: v. to depart secretly and hide

II. Sentences

1. The man was naive in believing the salesman at the door.

2.The immigrant was legally naturalized when he passed the test to become a citizen.

3.The talent he had with the piano was innate.

4.The lawyer was very factious.

5.The test was so facile, the entire class passed with flying colors.

6.The teachers were left with a facsimile of the exam.

7.The nuns had to abdicate a lot of privileges to join the convent.

8.Ralph Bakshi uses an aberrational form of animation.

9.The witness later abjured his statement.

10.The couple planned to abscond to a different city and elope.

III. Story

Once upon a time in the naive Sleepytown, there was a family of immigrants. The family had come from Russia, but were soon naturalized into the new town. The smallest daughter of the family, Lena, had an innate talent for the piano. Although she had a factious instructor, who made everything harder than it had to be, she still found learning new notes and songs to be quite facileThe instructor always gave her a facsimileof the sheets of music she had taught her that day. Lena would come home from school and study and play those sheets of music until she had to go to bed.She mostly enjoyed playing aberrational songs. One terrible night, the familys' house caught fire. Everyone survived but Lena's piano was destroyed and the family could no longer afford the lessons for her. Lena abdicated the piano for a few months, but later realized she still had a great passion for it. When she could support herself in the years to come, she absconded away to a desolate villiage in the country to practice and play for the rest of her days.

IV. Activity 1. Romeo and Juliet planned to (abscond) from their families so they could be together forever. 2.Extra copies or (facsimile). 3. The skeptic was evermore (factious) of everything he read. 4.Addition is so (facile). 5.John Wayne Gacy was (naive) to think that he could get away with such a sick murder. 6.The priest in "Aliens" (abdjured) his faith after his wife died. 7. Illegal aliens need to (naturalize) themselves in new countries. 8.Picasso painted pictures that were quite an (abberation).

Week 2
ENCE: state of 1. complacent: adj. self-satisfied 2. belligerence: n. quality of having a fighting spirit 3. opulence: n. wealth TEN: hold 4. tenacious: adj. stubborn; holding fast 5. tenable: adj. able to be defended or upheld 6. retentive: adj. retaining knowledge easily (a retentive memory) CLUD: shut 7. preclude: v. to hinder; to make impossible 8. occlusion: n. the shutting up of an opening 9. reclusive: adj. shut away; hermit-like 10. exclusion: n. the act of shutting out (noun form of "exclude") This week's activity: Fill in the blank sentences!

Sentences

1.The woman was complacent after she graduated college.

2.The gang members were often belligerent when it came to opposing groups.

3.Bill Gates is opulent with the success of Microsoft.

4.The boy had a tenacious grip on his friend so that he wouldn't fall.

5.The small girl never worried about bullies because of her tenable older brothers.

6. Some children are exceptionally retentive in school.

7. Bitter teachers sometimes make their classes so precluded, no students will pass.

8.The plumber occluded the draining system in order to stop the leak.

9. My neighbor is very reclusive, he never goes outside and works at night.

10. The mean little girls were exclusive when it came to letting other girls join their group.

Story

Once there was a **belligerent** young boy named Joe. He always picked fights with the other little boys and won. He was very **complacent** after he would beat them. His family was **opulent** had taught him that poor people were below him, and he could basically treat them like dirt. Since he was so hard to be friends with all of the children eventually **excluded** him from their activities. They **occluded** his cubbyhole so he wasn't able to put away his papers, they would secretly get ahold of his homework and would then **preclude** all the questions. Although Joe was quite retentive, even he could not figured out the answers after the boys had changed them.After a few weeks seclusion they had worn him down to a depressed **recluse**. Once one of the smaller boy got up the guts to say something to Joe, and in return Joe lunged at the boy and got a **tenacious** hold on the boys arms. It turns out the little boy was more **tenable** than joe, and threw him off. After that, something changed in Joe. He started to be nicer and made friends with a few of the other boys, and lived happily ever after.

Activity(Completed by C.N, L.V., T. C.)

1. People with genious I.Qs tend to be (retentitive).

2. People who have been through war may become (Belligerant) when they come home.

3. Country clubs can be (reclusive) in picking their members if they want to be.

4. Ventiliation pipes sometimes need to be (occluded) in order to reduce pollution.

5. The president has a ________ grip on the country.

6. Having a high opinion of yourself, or being (complacent).

7. Young boys tend to have a (tenacious) attitude.

8. Being very wealthy can also be callled being (oppulent).

9. (Tenable) people are loyal and will protect their friends.

10. (Exclusive) courses in school can lead to not graduating on time.

**Week 3**
Definitions

TUDE: state of 1. **//lassitude://** n. weariness; state of being limp 2. **//aptitude://** n. state of being capable; ability 3. **//fortitude://** n. bravery and strength; endurance 4. **//pulchritude//**: n. state of beauty MAN: hand 5. **//manacles://** n. handcuffs 6. **//manifest://** adj. obvious; apparent 7. **//emancipate//**: v. to set free FIDE: faith 8. **//infidelity://** n. disloyalty 9.**//bona fide://** adj. genuine ("In good faith") 10.**//confident://** n. a person in whom secrets are confided (note: a female is called "confidante")

Sentences:

1. The **//lassitude//** of the old man made people tired at the sight of him.

2. Students going into college usually have to take an **//aptitude//** test so they can be placed in the right classes.

3. The **//fortitude//** of the courageous knight was awe inspiring to the peasants.

4. The unicorns **//pulchritude//** was unbearable to a sour soul.

5. He was carried away in **//manacles//** and stayed in them until he was found innocent.

6. The obsession **//manifested//** inside of her until she went mad.

7. Slaves were **//emancipated//** when Lincoln was president.

8. The mans **//infidelity//** caught up with him and his girlfriend eventually found out.

9. The vase was a **//bona fide//** antique.

10. Every one needs a **//confident//** they can tell all their problems and secrets to.

Activity:

1.The __________ of the old scary mans' lazy eye was disgusting.

2.My best friend is a very good ___________ because she holds all my secrets.

3.Mr. Conlay has a natural ____________ for teaching.

4.The Mona Lisa is a __________ piece of art.

5.My brother has a very __________ attitude.

6.Iraqis think U.S. soliders are __________.

7.People with plastic surgery are in a false state of __________________.

8.The serial killer got walked away from the crime scene in ____________.

9.The bird was _____________ from its cage.

10.Her cleaning habit ________ itself into an obsession.

Story:

There once was a boy with such a natural talent that he had the highest level of **//aptitude//** in the world. His parents made him try-out for all school sports and pushed him to get great grades. This eventually wore him down to such a **//lassitude//** style that he **//emancipate//**//**d**// himself from his parents. His parents accused him of **//infidelity//** but through his **//bona fide//** accounts of their harsh ways, the fact that his parents had abused him //**manifested**// in the minds of the jury. After he won the prosecution he felt a state of **//fortitude//** come over him. His parents were put in **//manacles//** and he fell for a //**pulchritudinous**// woman and she posed as a //**confidante**// for him.

Week 4

Definitions:

GNOSI: know 1. [|cognizance]: n. awareness 2. [|incognito]: adj., adv. in disguise 3.[|prognosticate]: v. predict the future PUL: push; drive 4. [|compulsory]: adj. required; mandatory 5. [|impulsive]: adj. driven to act quickly (without thinking things through) 6. [|repulse]: v. to drive back (as an army) 7. [|expulsion]: n. the act of throwing out (noun form of "expel") POLY: many 8. [|polygamy]: n. state of having many wives 9. [|polyglot]: n. one who knows many languages 10. [|polychromatic]: adj. having many colors

Sentences:

1. We will take //**cognizance**// of your objections at the proper time. (dictionary.com)

2. I was //**incognito**// for my spy mission.

3. The fortune teller made a **//prognostication//** that the man was going to die a horrible death.

4. Police men and women have to go through **//compulsory//** training.

5. His decision was **//impulsive//** once he saw the accident.

6. The army was **//repulsed//** because there was a fire in the rain forest.

7. If you carry any weapons at school then you are at risk for **//expulsion//**.

8. The Arabian prince thought **//polygamy//** was okay.

9. In order to have a job as a translater you have to be a **//polyglot//**.

10. A rainbow is very **//polychromatic//**. (Need more context clues!)

Story:

Once there was a young gypsy who ran a little both and **prognosticated** the lives of the peasants who lived in the town. No one knew, but she was secretly **incognito** and was really a hideous old witch. She had been turned into her unknown form when she angered and old wizard with her constant **compulsory** complaining. She had been one of the wives in the old wizards **polygamy**, but because of her unpleasantness she was sent away in **expulsion**. As she was leaving, the wizard started shouting and a **polychromatic** wind burst outward from his fingertips. The old wizard was a **polyglot**, and the gypsy could not understand what he was cursing her with. When she did not feel pain after the spell was cast she **impulsively** ran to a mirror, and **repulsed** back in horror when she saw her reflection. She fainted, and once she had regained consciousness, her **cognizance** of her face returned. She forever lived the rest of her days in a disguise that exhausted her being, but she kept it up because she could not stand being a hideous old woman.

Activity:

1. The purpose of going on reconnaissance missions is to take_____________ of your enemy's current position.

2. Spies are always_________.

3. A premonition is a ______________________.

4. Doing your homework is ________________ for a good grade.

5. Having an adrenalin rush makes you ________.

6. Maggots eating rotting flesh is__________.

7. Rockets create and _________ of thrust.

8. __________ is practiced in certain cities in Utah.

9. Mrs. Newton is a ___________.

10. Prisms create __________________ images.

Week 5 Definitions:

APO: away from 1. [|apocalypse]: n. a revelation of the future destruction of the world 2. [|apogee]: n. point of orbit of a heavenly body farthest from the earth; the best or greatest point (The apogee of his career.) HUM: earth; ground; man 3. [|exhume]: v. to dig up a body 4. [|humiliate]: v. to shame 5. [|humane]: adj. compassionate to human beings and animals MIS: wrong 6. [|miscreant]: n. an evil-doer 7. [|misogyny]: n. hatred of women 8. [|misnomer]: n. an incorrect name (like calling a bald guy "Curly") 9. [|misgivings]: n. feelings of uneasiness or guilt 10. [|misanthrope]: n. a hater of mankind

Sentences: 1. The **apocalypse** would be a horrible thing to live through.

2. The **apogee** is the point at which a satellite orbiting an astronomical object is farthest from the center of the object being orbited.

3. Dr. Frankenstien **exhumed** a body from a graveyard to create Frankenstien's Monster. 4. Everyone has been **humiliated** at least once. 5. The Green Party is a **humane** society that often runs for president. 6. Murderers are **miscreants**. 7. You don't hear much about **misogynists** as you do feminists. 8. Calling a funeral 'joyous' would be a **misnomer**. 9. Murderers are also have **misgivings.** Usually... 10. Anti-social people could possibly be considered **misanthropes**.

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Across 1. to shame 3. destruction of the world 4. evil-doer 5. compassionate to humans and animals 8. point at which an orbiter is farthest from the thing being orbited 9. hatred of women 10. incorrect name

Down 2. hater of mankind 6. uneasiness/guilt 7. to dig up a body