Monday, March 29, 2010

Spurious and Astute

spurious- not genuine
astute- shrewd; clever

The only was for Slanderous Susie would get her gossip in a very sly, and astute way. She would come up to you and pretend she was just being friendly. She would talk to you about her problems and you would share you information with her. We would fall into her trap because we could not tell that she was acting in a spurious way.

Slander

slander- false charges and malicious oral statements about someone

Slanderous Susie was the editor-n-chief of the school newspaper. She gained her nickname because she continuously entered lies about certain classmates. People started calling her slanderous because of these false charges.

Fabicated and Hypocrisy

fabricated- made; concoted to deceive
hypocrisy- the practice of pretending to be something one is not; insincerity

My favorite cartoon as a child was the Toony Loons. But I didn't like the character Hippo the Hypocrite. He would tell everyone to tell the truth under any circumstance. But then he would turn go and tell the next character a huge fabrication.

Saturday, March 27, 2010

Dubious

dubious- doubtful; of unlikely authenticity

Dubious Derick is one of the most skeptical that I have ever met. He didn't believe anything that you told him, unless you have hard evidence. He probably wouldn't believe that it was raining outside if you came in with a wet umberella and soaking clothes. His favorite line was "Doubt it."

WTR - Dubious Derick was very doubtful.

Mollify, Reclamation,and Sanction

mollify- to calm or soothe
reclamation- the act of making something useful again
sanction- to give official authorization or approval

Our fifth grade teacher's reclamtion of our brain was necessary after we had spent all summer watching tv and playing video games. After a receiving a sanction from our parents to do so, she prohibited us from watching any TV, besides PBS and the Discovery channel, fo rthe first month of school. To mollify our great desire for TV, she would show us interenting education films in class on friday.

Auspicious, Benevolent, and Benign

auspicious- favorable; promising
benevolent- well-meaning; generous
benign- kind and gentle

I think that my fifth grade class had a auspicious future ahead of us. I am sure that all of the classmates are doing pretty well now. Some of us may not have had the most benevolent intentions back when we were younger, but I think we grew out of it before we left elementary school that year. By the end of the year, we (at least, most of us) were very benign with each other.

Asylum

asylum- a place or retreat or security

My fifth grade class used to love to play on the playground. I remember us going and playing out there in the freezing cold (true story). Our favorite game was tag. We created this asylum under the slide. Whoever could get to the slide before they got tagged was safe.

Superfluous and Alleviate

superfluous- extra; unnecessary
alleviate- to ease a pain or burden

Alan the Alleviater was one of my best friends. He was really nice. I hadd a little bit of a crush on him in the fifth grade. Often we would get these cramps in our hand while writing our papers for the teacher. He would give these hand massages that would magically alleviate the pain. I think he liked me back because he would give me a superfluous massage at the end of the day, even if my hand didn't cramp.

Frentic and Gratuitious

frentic- wildly excited or active
gratuitious- given freely; unearned; unwarrented

Our day's in the fifth grade were very frentic. We had subject, after subject, after subject. Then it was art, out to recess, more subjects, playtime, and home. I think they wanted to run all the energy out of us so that our parents would not have to deal with it when we got home. Sometimes our teacher would throw gratuitious playtime in the day to burn some more of our energy, even if we didn't deserve it or want it.

Egregious and Flagrant

egregious- conspicuously bad or offensive
flagrant- extremely or deliberately shocking or noticible

Once, Ebony hugged this boy for an hour because he pointed out one of her egregious errors in her paper. Sometimes I think she would throw some flagrant mispellings in her papers just so she could hug him.

Ebullience and Effusive

ebullience- intense enthusiasm
effusive- emotionally unrestrained; gushy

Effusive Ebony was the cryer of the class. If someone got a cut on the playground, she tear up. If you let her borrow a pencil, she would give you tears with her thanks. She was very effusive in expressing her appreciation towards you for the smallest thing. I will never forget the time she started crying even harder because I gave her one of my tissues because she was crying. She showed great ebullience in her thanks also. She was so weird about that. One time she started hugging this girl for helping her up when she slipped in the cafeteria. She even got on her knees and closed her hands and thanked her. Needless to say, that girl never talked to her again.

Poignant

poignant- profoundly moving; touching

Although most of the time we did feel that Miss Flamboyant's speeches were simply the ramblings of a senile old woman, but one of her speeches was very poignant. It brought us to tears as she told her life story. It made us see her in a whole differnt light.

Opulent

opulent- exhibiting a display of great wealth

Miss Flamboyant always drove a different car for whatever day it was. Her rides were always opulent. My favorite day was Friday because she always drove her hybrid Cadillac that she had decorated with all these "Go Green" stickers.

Florid and Ostentatious

florid- describing flowery or elaborate speech
ostentatious- describing a showy or pretentious display

Our fifth grade art teacher's name was Miss Flamboyant. She always gave us florid speeches about how life is a canvas and you are the pain brush. Her big words, meatphors, and similies were all part of her ostentatious show of deeper meanings.

Embellish and Ornate

embellish- to make beautiful by ornamenting; to decorate
ornate- elaborately decorated

I have a friend named Ornate Olivia. She dresses so well (at least, she thinks she does). She embellishes herself with fake rubies and diamonds. She wears bright colors and always has to match with her contacts. Her earrings have to be extremely dangally. She is so ornate that it became part of her name.

Servile and Suppressed

servile- submissive; like a servant
suppress- subdue; kept from being circulated

Servile Sally always did what the bullies told her. She even did their homework and wrote their papers. But when the teacher began complimenting their papers and praising them in front of other teachers, Sally decided she would no longer suppress her anger. She stood her ground and released all her anger toward the bullies. She, then, became known as Super Sally.

Alliance and Disparity

alliance- a union of two or more groups
disparity- inequality in age, rank, or degree; difference

Haughty Hillary and Patronizing Patty had formed and alliance. They made an agreement to stick together and belittle everyone else in the class. They would like to believe that there was a great disparity between the rest of the class and them, but we were all on the same level.

Alienated

alienated- removed ot disassociated from (friends, family, or homeland)

Ally the Alienated was the most pitiful site in the fifth grade. She, once, had all the friends in the world. But after her gossip blog got her into all that trouble, no one talked to her anymore. She was alienated.

Friday, March 26, 2010

Torpor

torpor- laziness; inactivity; dullness

After Iago read the class his story, we were filled with torpor and were not excited at all when we had to deliver our own story.

Insipid and Listless

insipid- uninteresting; unchallenging
listless- lacking energy

The work that Iago would do was very insipid. When we had to write a story that included a metaphor and a similie, he did the bare- minimum. Then when he recited it, he did it listlessly.

Indolent

indolent- lazy

Indolent Iago was never did any of the work for himself. When we had to do a group project, he never did any portionof the work. He wanted us to do it for him. When we had to go to PE, he would lie to the teacher and say he was an asthmatic, thus could not do his jumping jacks.

Quandary

quandary- a state of uncertainty or perplexity

Ian did not understand why none of the girls that liked him wanted to date him. He was in a quandary. He was not sure if it was his looks or did he smell bad or something.

Impede and Obscure

impede- to slow the progress of
obscure- (adj) relatively unknown; (v) to conceal or make indistinct

All the girls had a crush on Ian the Impediment. He was very hot. But we called him the Impediment because if you ever dated him, he always would distract you from your studies. It would take you all night to finish your homework becauae you were on the phone with him. He just became an impediment to your educational career. His view of what he wanted to do was kind of obscure so he was not very enthusiastic about his studies. Because he did not have a clear view of what he wanted to do, he did not care about what grades he got.

Futile

futile- having no useful purpose; pointless

Cassie tried time and time again to explain algebra to us, but it was futile. We could not understand it.

Cryptic

cryptic- difficult to comprehend

Only Cassie could understand the cryptic writing that our teacher put on the board. She called it algebra. We could not understand it. We called it Cassie's secret language.

Convoluted

convoluted- intricate and complex

Convoluted Cassie was someone that should have treated us the was Hillary and Patty did. She was extremely smart and most of the sentences that she was went over out head. she had a very convoluted mind.

Patronizing

patronizing- treating in a condescending manner

Patronizing Patty was Haughty Hillary's best friend. She treated the class the same way Hillary treated us. She critisized everyone in the class and treated us like we were below her.

Haughty and Imperious

haughty- arrogant; vainly proud
imperious- arrogantly domineering or overbearing

Haughty Hillary was also in my fifth grade class. She was Dejason's girlfriend. She was the most stuck up person I had ever met. She thought she was the most beautiful and smartest person on the face of the earth. She flaunted her looks and was very imperious toward the other girls in the class.

Despotic and Dictatorial

despotic- exercising absolute power; tyrannical
dictatorial- domineering; oppressively overbearing

Despotic Dejason was in my fifth grade class. He would make everyone do whatever he said. If you tried to tell him no, then he would get his big brother to beat you up in the playground. His dictatorial actions lasted all through my fifthgrade year. I wonder if he is still like that now.

WTR: Despotic Dejason was dictatorial.

Condescending, disdain, and contemptous

condescending- treating people as weak or inferior
contemptuous- feeling of hatred; scornful
disdain- (n) contempt; scorn (v) to regard or treat with contempt; to look down on

Connie the Condescending did not have very many friends because she treated people like they were lesser than her so they did not want to be around her. She even admitted that she felt disdain towards people that were not as smart as she. The class was so contemptuous of her that they never palyed with her at recess.

Substantiated and Vindicated

substantiated- supported with proof or evidence; verified
vindicated- freed from blame

Booboo's blood at the crimes scene substantiated that he was there and it also vindicated Even from all the accusations he was getting.

Plausible

plausible- seemingly valid or acceptable, credible

Peewee the Plausible always had excuses for whatever he didn't do. But no matter what his excuse was it always seemed to make sense so people accepted it as true.

Penitent

penitent- expressing remorse for one's misdeeds

Booboo soobed as he confessed to stealing the honey. He was very penitent. He became known ab Booboo the boowoo.

Objectivity

objectivity- treating facts without influence from personal feelings or prejudices

Emmy the Impartial shows great objectivity because he can decide who was right and tell them so no matter how he feels about them. He went and congradualted Booboo for confessing to the crime, even though he hard a few hard feelings towards Booboo.

Integrity

integrity- trustworthiness, completeness

Booboo showed great integrity when he confessed to stealing the honey Evan was accused of stilling.

Incontrovertible

incontrovertible- not able to be denied or disputed

After Judge Arthur saw the correct labwork that showed it was Booboo's blood at the crime scene, and not Evans's. It was incontrovertible that Booboo was the one who stole the honey and not Evan.

Impartial

impartial- not in favor of one side or the other, unbiased

Emmy the Impartial was the enemy of Booboo the Biased. Booboo did not ike Emmy because Emmy was accepting to all and did not show a foavor to the bears that looked like him. When their was a dispute, he sided with the more just argument, not with the bear that looked more like him.

Exculpate

exculpate- to free from guilt or blame

After 16 years of being in jail, Evan the Innocent was exculpated because the labs found out that they got the forensics mixed up. He then became known as Evan the Exculpated.

Biased

biased- prejudiced

Booboo the biased was the biggest, baddest member of the anti-others group. He was biased against everyone that was not like him and had no problem expressing it. He only let bears that look like him into his cave and he always sides with them too.

Arbiter

arbiter- a judge who decides a disputed case

My favorite daytime judge show is Judge Authar because his has no problem with his job as a arbiter. He takes are of the toughest decisions really quikly. He listens carefully to the case, thinks for a second, then delivers his decisions. He does not care what if, ands, or buts the losing side he. He says this is my decision and thats final.

Rhetoric

rhetoric- the art of using language effectively and persuasively

Percy the Persuasive had to take classes in rhetoric to increase his skills in using his words to persuades his audiances to agree with him.

Lucid

lucid- easily understood, clear

I have a friend named Lucid also. She is Clarity's twin. She acts just like her too. She makes sure that everything that she says is simple, clear, and to the point.

Implication

implication- the act of suggesting or hinting

There is a sitcom called "Emily the Implicator." It is about a girl that never comes right out and asserts her thoughts. She hints at things. When her mom put too much salt in the food, instead of coming out and saying, "Ma, you put too much salt in the food", she quietly said, "Ma, don't you think salt is bad for you." And she asked her if she liked salty food.

Fluid

fluid- easily flowing

When I was a kid, my favorite dancer was Fluid Florence. When she danced, her moves were like water. She was not stiff at all and it didn't look like she was trying too hard. It was like her body became the bass of the song.

Emphasize

emphasize- to give special attention to something, to stress

My favorite comedian is Edwin the Emphasizer. He can say a normal, average sentence that anyone could say. But he emphasizes a certain word, which makes it hilarious. For example, the sentence was Bush was a great president. When he said it, "BUSH (pause for effect) was a great president. When he said it, the audiance saw that it was sarcasm.

Eloquence

eloquence- the ability to speak vividly or persuasively

I have a beautiful friend named Eloquence. When she speaks, she captivates her audiance. Her words come alive when she utters them and she gets the audiance on one accord with her. She is kind of like a female pastor.

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Discourse

discourse- conversation

My friend Molly loves discourse. She never shuts up, but I love her still.

Didactic

didactic- intended to instruct

Cohesive made a CD that was very didactic. Her rhymes were about war and the US's political stand points.

Cohesive

cohesive- condition of sticking together

Coherent has a sister named Cohesive. She, unlike her brother, says things that link together.

Assertion

Assertion- a declaration or statement

My favorite actor is Aisha the Assertive. She is never unsure or wishy washy about anything. She makes her staements and very clearly. On one episode, she walked up to her boss and declared right there, "I don't like you and I quit."

Monday, March 22, 2010

Coherent (I slipped oxymoran in there.)

coherent- logically connected
oxymoran- an apparent contradiction of terms

My sister has a friend named Coherent. This man is quite the opposite of the this word coherent. This word and he are an oxymoran. He always trys to lecture me on life, but his sentences never make sense. He says one sentence about love then he comes out of no where talking about how to make gumbo.

Cogent

Cogent- convincing; reasonable

My buddy, Cogent, is very reasonable. I think he should go work in Washington D.C. when he gets older because his arguments are always convincing and evrything he says always makes sense.

Clarity

clarity -clearness in thought or expression

I have a friends named Clarity. She never keeps anything from you. She makes sure you completely understand everything when she says something.

Introduction

These are some sentences that tell stories about a few of my friends. These descriptions will help explain the AP vocab words. And I will give you some WTR's(ways to remember).