Daily+Vocabulary+and+Terminology

=Do not delete anyone's submitted information. If you disagree with anything or wish to add information, post something in response. =  **// Vocabulary Schedule //** __ Wed., 3-30-11 __ : Wood, Troehler, Zuccala, Sparks, Sherman, Wallace, Prus __ Thurs., 3-31-11 __ : M. Smith, Riley, Phelps, Patel, Robinson, Brumleve, Moser, Miser __ Fri., 4-1-11 __ : Prescott, Murphy, Miracle, Megie, Overbeck, Coates, Martin, Kovacs

__ Mon., 4-4-11 __ : Malotke, Kehr, Hall, Epperson, Matson, Hickman, Frank __ Tues., 4-5-11 __ : Ferguson, Cook, Elkins, Clark, Hubbard, Edwards, Dupont, Cox __ Wed., 4-6-11 __ : Cartheuser, Boody, Boehl, Steele, Gallagher, M. Fair, Bunnell, Bausch __ Thurs., 4-7-11 __ : Villano, S. Smith, Rose, Peterson, Evanoff, Ritchey, Alison Moore __ Fri., 4-8-11 __ : Seifert, Presley, Olson, E. Miller, Costello, Greene, W. Miller, Laskarzewski

__ Mon., 4-11-11 __ : Prem, Marchant, Kuhn, Essig, Chapman, Hilmandolar, Haney __ Tues., 4-12-11 __ : Kesserling, Karg, Eberly, Brown, Evanoff, Day __ Wed., 4-13-11 __ : Conners, Christensen, Sharp, Plante, Chase, Brown __ Thurs., 4-14-11 __ : A. Fair, Brady, Baker, Alyssa Moore, King, Barnhart

__ Bougainvillea: __ small shrubs or vines. native to south africa and have small flowers with bright showy colors. "Along the length of the wall was a row of potted poinsettias. ZThe bougainvillea had also crept through the tree"(77)



Bereft

==**Definition of // BEREFT // ** == **1** //**a** // **:** [|deprived] or robbed of the possession or use of something —usually used with //of//  //**b** // **:** lacking something needed, wanted, or expected —used with //of//  **2** **:** suffering the death of a loved one **:** [|bereaved]  

"It was natural that, bereft and desperate as I was, in the throes of unremitting suffering, I should turn to God"(378).



Purveyors: 1. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: default; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;">a <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;">person who purveys, provides, or supplies: <span class="ital-inline" style="color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: Georgia,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">//<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;">a purveyor of <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: default; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;">foods; <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;">a <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: default; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;">purveyor <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;">of lies. // <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 3px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**2.** <span class="labset" style="color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">//<span class="ital-inline" style="color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: Georgia,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;">Old English Law  //<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;">. an officer who provided or acquired provisions for the sovereign under the prerogative of purveyance "I would have liked to say, "I'm a doctor," to those who asked me what I did, doctos being the current purveyors of magic and miracle." (Martel IX)

Jon Wood

Crux (noun): 1. a vital, basic, decisive or pivotal point 2. A perplexing difficulty. "Your story is emotionally dead, and that't the crux of it" (Martel vii). J.Prus



Ostentation (noun) - pretentious, showy, or vulgar display. "The colour is a bungled mix of tan, black, yellow, grey, with spots having none of the ostentation of a leopard's rosettes." (Martel, 145)



Dan Brumleve

ex: "It is not their gastric juices that limit hyenas, but the power of their jaws, which is __formidable__." pg 117 -Caitlin Gallagher
 * Formidable**: Causing fear, apprehension, or dread.


 * Guffawing:** To laugh loudly and boisterously.

"I couldn't bear to have yet another French speaker guffawing at my name" (Martel 25).



-Madison Smith

**Ludicrous:** ﻿ <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">**//–adjective//**

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 3px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: default; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;">causing <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;">laughter <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: default; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;">because <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;">of absurdity; provoking or deserving <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: default; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;">derision; ridiculous; laughable. "He tried to teach my parents to swim, but he never got them to go beyond wading up to their knees at the beach and making ludicrous round motions with their arms" (page 10).



-Kelsey Cook

"My hands trembled. My sambar lost its taste" (7).
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Iridescent: Adjective- displaying a play of lustrous colors; Noun- an iridescent cloth, material, or other substance
==== "Every morning before I was out the main gate I had one last impression that was both ordinary and unforgettable: a pyramid of turtles; the iridescent snout of a mandrill; the stately silence of a giraffe; the obese, yellow open mouth of a hippo; the beak-and-claw climbing of a macaw parrot up a wire fence; the greeting claps of a shoebill's bill; the senile lecherous experssion of a camel." (18) ====

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-Jaimie Miser

Artesian Wells- (n) A well in which water rises under pressure from a permeable stratum overlaid by impermeable rock. "The Piscines Hebert, Ledru-rollin and Butte-aux-cailles were bright, modern, spacious pools fed by artesian wells" (11).

- Rob Overbeck

Ire- (noun) intense anger; wrath "They are the pendants of those "vicious", "bloodthirsty", "depraved" animals that inflame the ire of the maniacs I have just mentioned, who vent their spite on them with walking sticks and umbrellas" (31).

-Kendall Kehr

Chagrin-(**//noun)//** meaning: a feeling of vexation, marked by disappointment or humiliation. "And by this token, not much of a money-making venture, for the Greater Good and the Greater Profit are not compatible aims, much to Father's chagrin" (78). -Brianna M.

Amenable-**adjective:** ready or willing to answer, act. "It is interesting to note that the lion that is the most amenable to the circus trainer's tricks is the one with the lowest social standing in the pride, the omega animal." (56).

-Kayla V.

Bosh (noun)- foolish talk or activity **:** [|nonsense] —often used interjectionally. "A clear intellect, close attention to detail and a little scientific knowlege will expose rligion as superstious bosh." -pg34 __BRIAN KOVACS__

Indolent -(adj) disliking work or effort, lazy, idle.

"Its only real habit is indolence . It sleeps or rests on average twenty hours day"(3)

~RedWoodHugger :-) <span class="ital-inline" style="color: #3bab3b; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">

<span class="ital-inline" style="color: #3bab3b; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> In situ (noun): situated in [|the] original, natural, or existing place or position. <span class="ital-inline" style="color: #3bab3b; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> "I had the great luck one summer of studying the three-toed sloth //in situ// in the equatiorial jumgles of Brazil" (8). <span class="ital-inline" style="color: #3bab3b; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> -Cassie Hubbard <span class="ital-inline" style="color: #3bab3b; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">

**cataleptic (adj)** - a person suffering from catalepsy " Orange Juice had seemed practically cataleptic " (113) - Will Prescott

**Conundrum** (n) - a riddle, the answer to which involves a pun or play on words <span style="background-color: transparent; border-collapse: collapse; cursor: default; line-height: normal;">A 450 pound Bengal tiger in a lifeboat twenty-six feet long was a conundrum I would have to crack later. (134) -Quinn Cartheuser

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<span style="background-color: transparent; border-collapse: collapse; cursor: default; line-height: normal;">**subjugation**- to bring under complete control or subjection; conquer; master.

<span style="background-color: transparent; border-collapse: collapse; cursor: default; line-height: normal;">"It kept Richard Parker in partial subjugation." (238) <span style="background-color: transparent; border-collapse: collapse; cursor: default; line-height: normal;">hanna sherman

<span style="background-color: transparent; border-collapse: collapse; cursor: default; line-height: normal;">Mackenzie Karg- "I grew quite fond of the sharks. They were like curmudgeonly old friends who would never admit they liked me yet came round to see me all the time" (306). <span style="background-color: transparent; border-collapse: collapse; cursor: default; line-height: normal;">Curmudgeonly- a bad-tempered, difficult, cantankerous person. <span style="background-color: transparent; border-collapse: collapse; cursor: default; line-height: normal;">

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**Diurnal**-Adj; Being active or occurring in the daytime.

"It is an agile and keen-sighted creature, diurnal and social in habits..." (pg. 265) Aaron Brown