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WEEK 1 Vocabulary

1.**Abhor**-v.- To regard with horror or loathing; detest 2.**Bigot**-n.-One who is strongly partial to one’s own group, religion, race, or politics and is intolerant of those who differ 3.**Counterfeit**-v.- To make a copy of, usually with the intent to defraud; forge n.- A fraudulent imitation or facsimile. adj.- Made in imitation of what is genuine with the intent to defraud 4.**Enfranchise**-v.- To bestow a franchise on. To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote. To free, as from bondage. 5.**Hamper**-v.- To prevent the free movement, action, or progress of n.- a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner); a basket usually with a cover 6.**Kindle**-v.-To catch fire; burst into flame, to become bright; glow, to become inflamed, to be stirred up; rise n.-a brood or litter, especially of kittens 7.**Noxious**-adj.- Harmful to living things; injurious to health 8.**Placid**-adj.-Undisturbed by tumult or disorder; calm or quiet, satisfied; complacent 9.**Remuneration**-n.-the act of paying for goods or services or to recompense for losses 10.**Talisman**-n.-An object marked with magic signs and believed to confer on its bearer supernatural powers or protection; something that apparently has magic power; a trinket or piece of jewelry thought to be a protection against evil

Literary Terms

1.**Allegory**-n.-a short moral story (often with animal characters); a visible symbol representing an abstract idea; an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; and extended metaphor 2.**Alliteration**-n.-The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables 3.**Allusion**-n.-passing reference or indirect mention 4.**Ambiguity**-n.-an expression whose meaning cannot be determined from its context; an unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning 5.**Amplification**-n.-addition of extra material or illustration or clarifying detail; the amount of increase in signal power or voltage or current expressed as the ratio of output to input; the act of increasing voltage or power or current

Examples

1.The child //abhorred// her school bully. 2.The //bigot// put down everyone’s idea but his own. 3.The men were caught //counterfeiting// money. 4.The immigrant was //enfranchised// by the United States after 5 years. 5.The parent //hampered// the teenager so much that he rebelled. 6.The magnificent speech //kindled// the hearts of all the spectators. 7.The //noxious// gas swept into the building without setting off the alarm. 8.The //placid// bay was upset by the passing ship. 9.The man received adequate //remuneration// for his work. 10.The old women wore an ancient //talisman// around her neck.

Fill-In-The-Blank

1)The ________ process for the hurricane damage has barely started. 2)The Puritan society was filled with ________. 3)________ money would be considered illegal everywhere. 4)The criminal was ________ so he could not escape again. 5)The campers ________ the fire. 6)The baby _________ the prescription medicine. 7)The plague was ________ noxious to all human beings. 8)The ________ lake was located in the forest. 9)The magician used a ________ to protect him from his enemy. 10)A person from Guatemala was ________ in Africa.

Examples for literary terms

Allegory- The ship of state has sailed through rougher storms than the tempest of these lobbyists.

Alliteration- Six silly snakes slithered silently

Allusion- Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel,” The Scarlet Letter” contains reference to adultery.

Ambiguity- The teacher was ambiguous with instructions; therefore the students did not turn in their homework.

Amplification- The instruction book was amplified in order to make it clear for everyone.

sites used: [|dictionary.com] [|literary term examples]

WEEK 2 Vocabulary

1) **Abrasive**- //adj.// 1. Causing abrasion: //scratched the stovetop with an abrasive cleanser.// 2. Harsh and rough in manner: //an unpleasant, abrasive personality.//

2) **Bilk**-//v.// 1. A) To defraud, cheat, or swindle: //made millions bilking wealthy clients on art sales.// B) To evade payment of: //bilk one's debts.// 2. To thwart or frustrate: “Fate... may be to a certain extent bilked” (Thomas Carlyle). 3 .To elude.

3) **Covert**- //adj.// 1. Not openly practiced, avowed, engaged in, accumulated, or shown: //covert military operations; covert funding for the rebels.// 2. Covered or covered over; sheltered. 3. //Law.// Being married and therefore protected by one's husband.

4) **Engender**- //v.// 1. To bring into existence; give rise to: “Every cloud engenders not a storm” (Shakespeare). 2. To procreate; propagate.

5) **Hangar**- //n.// 1. A shelter especially for housing or repairing aircraft.

6) **Knotty**- //adj.// 1. Tied or snarled in knots. 2. Covered with knots or knobs; gnarled. 3. Difficult to understand or solve.

7) **Nuance**- //n.// 1. A subtle or slight degree of difference, as in meaning, feeling, or tone; a gradation. 2. Expression or appreciation of subtle shades of meaning, feeling, or tone: //a rich artistic performance, full of nuance.//

8) **Plagiarism**- n 1. a piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work 2. the act of plagiarizing; taking someone's words or ideas as if they were your own

9) **Renown**- //n.// 1. The quality of being widely honored and acclaimed; fame. 2. //Obsolete.// Report; rumor.

10) **Tangent**- //n.// 1. A line, curve, or surface meeting another line, curve, or surface at a common point and sharing a common tangent line or tangent plane at that point. 2. //Abbr.// **tan** //Mathematics.// The trigonometric function of an acute angle in a right triangle that is the ratio of the length of the side opposite the angle to the length of the side adjacent to the angle. 3. A sudden digression or change of course: //went off on a tangent during the courtroom argument.// 4. //Music.// An upright pin in a keyboard instrument, especially in a clavichord, that rises to sound a string when a key is depressed and stops the string at a preset length to set the pitch.

Examples of Vocabulary

1. I cleaned my stove-top but I the cleanser was so //abrasive// that it scratched it.

2. The man //bilked// the kind people by receiving donations from them for a fake foundation.

3. The woman went on a //covert// mission for the government.

4. The warm waters on the Atlantic Ocean, and the tropical storm //engendered// a hurricane on the coast.

5. The //hangar// located at LAX sheltered over 315 planes.

6. The young girl cried as her mother brushed her //knotty// hair.

7. To fully understand a book, you must first understand all of its //nuances//.

8. The teacher caught the group //plagiarizing// on their final report.

9. The Scarlet Letter is a //renowned// book.

10. The professor wanted the students to use //tangent// lines to solve the problem.

Activity: Fill in the blank

1. The bully had such an __________ personality towards the younger kids.

2. The purpose of the art show was to ___________ the people, in order to make the artist wealthy.

3. The secret society was obligated to have ___________ meetings.

4. I was able to __________ a fire by kindling the wood.

5. The man was so wealthy that he had a private __________ to house all of his planes.

6. The instructions given by the teacher were so __________ that the students were left in a state of confusion.

7. To fully appreciate art, you must notice all of its ___________.

8. The student ___________ the book and illegally took credit for it.

9. Marlon Brando is a ____________ actor.

10. ____________ lines had to be used to solve the complicated math problem.

Literary Terms

1) [|Anacoluthon]: lack of grammatical sequence; a change in the grammatical construction within the same sentence.

2) [|Anadiplosis]-("doubling back") the rhetorical repetition of one or several words; specifically, repetition of a word that ends one clause at the beginning of the next.

3) Anagram-A word or phrase formed by reordering the letters of another word or phrase

4) Analogy- Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar. A comparison based on such similarity. Correspondence in function or position between organs of dissimilar evolutionary origin or structure. A form of logical inference or an instance of it, based on the assumption that if two things are known to be alike in some respects, then they must be alike in other respects.

5) [|Anaphora]-the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses or lines.

Examples of Literary Terms

1) Anacoluthon: Agreements entered into when one state of facts exists -- are they to be maintained regardless of changing conditions? //J. Diefenbaker//

2) Anadiplosis: *Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state; servants of fame; and servants of business. //Francis Bacon//

3) Anagram: satin, stain

4) Analogy- Shoe is to foot as wheel is to car.

5) Anaphora: We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender. //Churchill.//

Literary Device Activity: match the words with the correct definition

a) Anacoluthon

b) Anadiplosis

c) Anagram

d) Analogy

e) Anaphora

1) rhetorical repetition of one or several words _____

2) repletion of a words or phrase at the beginning of lines _____

3) rearrangement of grammar in a sentence _____

4) reordered letters that form a phrase _____

5) similarity in dissimilar things _____

sites used: [|dictionary.com]

WEEK 3 Vocabulary

Vocabulary terms: 1. **Billowing**-moving in surges and billows and rolls; 2: characterized by great swelling waves or surges Ex: The wet clothing that the woman placed on the line to dry, was billowing in the wind. 2. **Cower**-To cringe in fear. Ex: The bear cowered to the approaching campers who were shouting, “Get away!” 3. **Enhance**-To make greater, as in value, beauty, or effectiveness; augment. Ex: The light and dark colors enhanced the image so that it appealed to the viewer. 4. **Harangue**- A long pompous speech, especially one delivered before a gathering. A speech or piece of writing characterized by strong feeling or expression; a tirade. Ex: His emissaries, had attended the Priest's convocation of the people, and, without delaying to hear more than the main point of the harangue, hurried back with their intelligence to the rebel camp. 5. **Labyrinth**- An intricate structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to find one's way; a maze. Ex: The children could not find their way out of the confusing labyrinth. 6. **Nullify**- To make null; invalidate. To counteract the force or effectiveness of Ex: At the school dance, they began to nullify the guest passes. 7. **Plaintiff**- The party that institutes a suit in a court. Ex: The plaintiff was cross-examined by the lawyer of the defendant. 8. **Replete**- Abundantly supplied; abounding. Filled to satiation; gorged Ex: The river was replete with water and trash. 9. **Tangible**- capable of being perceived especially by the sense of touch. capable of being precisely identified or realized by the mind. Capable of being appraised at an actual or approximate value Ex: The runner, winner of many local and national championships, felt that her goal to participate in the 2008 Olympics was quite tangible. 10. **Abrogate**- To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority Ex: The school began to abrogate all attire that was gang-related.

Vocabulary Activity: Fill in the blank

The sails of the ship __________ in the wind as the shipped rocked back and forth in the choppy seas. The abused child _________ every time he saw his bully. The police tried to _________ the surveillance video from the convenience store in order to catch the criminals. After Bush’s __________ to the cabinet, many felt that his remarks were quite negative. The tricky ________ at the fair confused everyone including adults. The bouncers at the party began to ________ all of the baggy clothes that the teenagers wore. The _________ accused his best friend for stealing her property. The thanksgiving dinner table was __________ with delicious foods whose scents wafted through the cozy house. Taylor was determined to work hard in school so that she could attend any college she wanted, and she felt that her goal was quite _________. Joey’s mom began to _________ all of his clothes that were too baggy.

Literary Terms

1. Anastrophe- n. 1) Inversion of the normal syntactic order of words 2) The reversal of the normal order of words

Example: The helmsman steered; the ship moved on; yet never a breeze up blew. Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

2. Anthropomorphism: Where animals or inanimate objects are portrayed in a story as people, such as by walking, talking, or being given arms, legs and/or facial features. (This technique is often incorrectly called personification.)

Example: A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth's sweet-flowing breast. Joyce Kilmer, Trees

3. Antithesis: opposition, or contrast of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel construction.

Example: Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. Barry Goldwater

4. Aphorism: A brief statement, which expresses an observation on life, usually intended as a wise observation

Example: Benjamin Franklin's "Poor Richard's Almanac" contains numerous examples, one of which is Drive thy business; let it not drive thee.

5. Aporia: expression of doubt (often feigned) by which a speaker appears uncertain as to what he should think, say, or do.

Example: Then the steward said within himself, 'What shall I do?' Luke 16

Activity

1. __________________

“Matter too soft a lasting mark to bear” (Alexander Pope).

2. __________________

O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! Sir Walter Raleigh, History of the World

3. __________________

The vases of the classical period are but the reflection of classical beauty; the vases of the archaic period are beauty itself." Sir John Beazley

4. __________________

Hippocrates: Life is short, art is long, opportunity fleeting, experimenting dangerous, reasoning difficult.

5. __________________

Demosthenes, On the Crown 129

Sites used: [|dictionary.com] [http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Classics/rhetoric.html|lausd] wikipedia

WEEK 4 Vocabulary

1. **Blasphemy**- A contemptuous or profane act, utterance, or writing concerning God or a sacred entity. The act of claiming for oneself the attributes and rights of God. An irreverent or impious act, attitude, or utterance in regard to something considered inviolable or sacrosanct. 2. **Credible**-Capable of being believed; plausible. Worthy of confidence; reliable. 3. **Enigma**-One that is puzzling, ambiguous, or inexplicable. A perplexing speech or text; a riddle. 4. **Harbingers**-One that indicates or foreshadows what is to come; a forerunner. To signal the approach of; presage. 5. **Labyrinthine**-relating to or affecting or originating in the inner ear; 2: resembling a labyrinth in form or complexity 6. **Nuzzle**-To rub or push against gently with or as if with the nose or snout. To root or move with the snout. To make rubbing or pressing motions with or as if with the nose or snout. To nestle together. 7. **Plaudit**-Enthusiastic expression of praise or approval 8. **Reprehensible**-Deserving rebuke or censure; blameworthy. 9. **Tardy**-Occurring, arriving, acting, or done after the scheduled, expected, or usual time; late. Moving slowly; sluggish. 10. **Absolution**-The act of absolving or the state of being absolved. The formal remission of sin imparted by a priest, as in the sacrament of penance.

Literary Terms: 1. Aposiopesis- A sudden breaking off of a thought in the middle of a sentence, as though the speaker were unwilling or unable to continue. 2. Apostrophe- The superscript sign ( ' ) used to indicate the omission of a letter or letters from a word, the possessive case, or the plurals of numbers, letters, and abbreviations 3. Authorial Intrusion- The superscript sign ( ' ) used to indicate the omission of a letter or letters from a word, the possessive case, or the plurals of numbers, letters, and abbreviations. 4. Archaism- An archaic word, phrase, idiom, or other expression. An archaic style, quality, or usage. 5. Assonance- Resemblance of sound, especially of the vowel sounds in words. The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds, especially in stressed syllables, with changes in the intervening consonants. Rough similarity; approximate agreement.

Examples of Vocabulary: 1. The people were in awe after they heard the blasphemy that the woman was said. 2. The statement that the plaintiff said did not seem very credible. 3. The professor’s lecture was such an enigma that the students were left perplexed. 4. While she was reading the novel she noticed that the author had included some harbingers. 5. The problem was such a labyrinthine that the students could not figure out an answer. 6. The pets began to nuzzle before they were put to sleep. 7. Her mother was in such a plaudit because of what her daughter had done in school. 8. What the student said about his peers was so reprehensible that he was taken to the principal’s office. 9. The teacher warned the students of being tardy because they would not be able to go get their books. 10. The priest gave the man an absolution after his confession.

Examples of Literary Terms: 1. Aposiopesis- O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason. Bear with me, My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, And I must pause till it come back to me. 2. Apostrophe- Busy old fool, unruly sun,Why dost thou thus, Through windows, and through curtains call on us? 3. Authorial Intrusion- “On my way back to the story, I pass Omar Khayyam, my sidelined hero, who is waiting patiently for me to get to the point at which his future bride, poor Sufiya Zinobia, can enter the narrative, head-first down the birth canal.” 4. Archaism- The word thou, the singular form of you, is an archaism 5. Assonance-'The queen will sweep past the deep crowds'

Examples for litrary devices taken from: http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms/terms/#Apostrophe http://englishplus.com/grammar/00000385.htm http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/pakistan/literature/rushdie/srauthor.html Vocabulary definitions taken from: [|www.dictionary.com]

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 * Across**

1.contemptuous or profane act

3.formal remission of sin imparted by a priest

6.late

9.blameworthy

10.to nestle together


 * Down**

2.reliable

4.a riddle

5.originating in the inner ear

7.enthusiastic expression of praise

8.a forerunner