Vocab Fall List #6

1. Abase - cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of
2. Abdicate - give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations
3. Abomination - an action that is vicious or vile; an action that arouses disgust or abhorrence; a person who is loathsome or disgusting; hate coupled with disgust
4. Brusque - marked by rude or peremptory shortness
5. Saboteur - someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks; a member of a clandestine subversive organization who tries to help a potential invader
6. Debauchery - a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity
7. Proliferate - cause to grow or increase rapidly; grow rapidly
8. Anachronism - an artifact that belongs to another time; a person who seems to be displaced in time; who belongs to another age; something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred
9. Nomenclature - a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline
10. Expurgate - edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate
11. Bellicose - having or showing a ready disposition to fight
12. Gauche - lacking social polish
13. Rapacious - excessively greedy and grasping; devouring or craving food in great quantities; living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
14. Paradox - a statement that contradicts itself
15. Conundrum - a difficult problem
16. Anomaly - position of a planet as defined by its angular distance from its perihelion (as observed from the sun); a person who is unusual; deviation from the normal or common order or form or rule
17. Ephemeral - lasting a very short time; anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form
18. Rancorous - showing deep-seated resentment
19. Churlish - having a bad disposition; surly; rude and boorish
20. Precipitous - characterized by precipices; extremely steep;done with very great haste and without due deliberation

Hamlet: Act 1 Scene 1

- Bernardo, Fransisco, Horatio, Marcellous

- Horatio and Marcellous went to the castle to see the ghost because Horatio thinks it's poppycock.

- The two meet with Bernardo and Fransisco but Fransisco leaves his post.

- After they are there for a little bit the ghost appears and it looks exactly like The King Hamlet (not to be confused with young Hamlet). 

- Horatio confronts the ghost and the spirit leaves.

Unphotographable

Everyone was circled around the crackling fire. Most people were tired from playing frisby in the sand, the rest just enjoying the sound of the ocean and the last rays of sunlight as it was disappearing beyond the horizon. The smell of hot dogs and marshmallows filled the air, not only from our pit but from all the other groups on shore. Every body was enjoying the last bits of summer because it was coming to an end.

GREEN EGGS AND HAMLET

1. What do you know about Hamlet?
     - The only thing I know about it is that there is the "To Be or Not to Be" speech in it.
2. What do you know about Shakespeare?
     - I know that he was the author for Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet.
3. Why do so many students frown when they hear "Shakespeare?"
     - In my experience it's usually due to the different style of writing and the students are just sort of thrown into it. This makes it harder to cull all of the information from the text.
4. What can we do to make studying this play unforgettable?
     - Simply see a live version (after reading it of course).

Vocab Fall List #5

1. shenanigans - secret or dishonest activity or manuevering.
2. ricochet - spring away from an impact
3. schism - division of a group into opposing factions
4. eschew - avoid and stay away from deliberately
5. plethora - extreme excess
6. ebullient - joyously unrestrained
7. garrulous - full of trivial conversation
8. harangue - address forcefully
9. interdependence - a reciprocal relation between interdependent entities
10. capricious - determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason
11. loquacious - full of trivial conversation
12. ephemeral - lasting a very short time
13. inchoate - only partly in existence
14. juxtapose - different things placed side by side
15. perspicacious - acutely insightful and wise
16. codswallop - nonsensical talk or writing
17. mungo - low grade wool
18. sesquipedelian - using long words 
19. wonky - turned or twisted toward one side
20. diphthong - a compound vowel where it starts with one vowel and moves to the other