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6/10/2009
Unknown Words
Create a word list with definitions using words from your book that you did not know.
shard: n---broken fragment of pottery. ventriloquist and ventriloquism: n---one who can speak and throw his or her voice without apparent movement of lips.
So now Holden, you should try and use these words during the day! That way, you will remember them better and they will become a part of your personal vocabulary which, in the end, makes you appear very smart to others! Mrs. Short
Here is my list of ten unknown words from Fablehaven 3
1. Burlap...a plain-woven, coarse fabric of jute, hemp, or the like; gunny.
2. Hacienda... In Latin America, a large landed estate. The hacienda originated in the colonial period and survived into the 20th century. Labourers, ordinarily Indians, were theoretically free wage earners on haciendas, but in practice their employers, who controlled the local governments, were able to bind them to the land, primarily by keeping them in a state of perpetual indebtedness. By the 19th century, as much as half of Mexico's rural population was entangled in the peonage system. Many haciendas were broken up by the Mexican Revolution.
3. Gawking...to stare stupidly
4. emphasized...to give emphasis to; lay stress upon; stress: to emphasize a point; to emphasize the eyes with mascara.
5. remedies… to cure, relieve, or heal.
6. deceased… no longer living; dead.
7. samoan… pertaining to Samoa or its Polynesian people.
8. botched… inadvertent to spoil by poor work; bungle (often fol. by up): He botched up the job thoroughly.
9. inadvertent… unintentional: an inadvertent insult.
10. transdimensional… Many familiar geometric objects can be generalized to any number of dimensions. For example, the two-dimensional triangle and the three-dimensional tetrahedron can be seen as specific instances of the n-dimensional simplex. Also, the circle and the sphere can be seen as specific instances of the n-dimensional hypersphere. More generally, an n-dimensional manifold is a space that locally looks like n-dimensional Euclidean space, but whose global structure may be non-Euclidean.
shard: n---broken fragment of pottery.
ReplyDeleteventriloquist and ventriloquism: n---one who can speak and throw his or her voice without apparent movement of lips.
Holden
So now Holden, you should try and use these words during the day! That way, you will remember them better and they will become a part of your personal vocabulary which, in the end, makes you appear very smart to others! Mrs. Short
ReplyDeleteHere is my list of ten unknown words from Fablehaven 3
ReplyDelete1. Burlap...a plain-woven, coarse fabric of jute, hemp, or the like; gunny.
2. Hacienda... In Latin America, a large landed estate. The hacienda originated in the colonial period and survived into the 20th century. Labourers, ordinarily Indians, were theoretically free wage earners on haciendas, but in practice their employers, who controlled the local governments, were able to bind them to the land, primarily by keeping them in a state of perpetual indebtedness. By the 19th century, as much as half of Mexico's rural population was entangled in the peonage system. Many haciendas were broken up by the Mexican Revolution.
3. Gawking...to stare stupidly
4. emphasized...to give emphasis to; lay stress upon; stress: to emphasize a point; to emphasize the eyes with mascara.
5. remedies… to cure, relieve, or heal.
6. deceased… no longer living; dead.
7. samoan… pertaining to Samoa or its Polynesian people.
8. botched… inadvertent to spoil by poor work; bungle (often fol. by up): He botched up the job thoroughly.
9. inadvertent… unintentional: an inadvertent insult.
10. transdimensional… Many familiar geometric objects can be generalized to any number of dimensions. For example, the two-dimensional triangle and the three-dimensional tetrahedron can be seen as specific instances of the n-dimensional simplex. Also, the circle and the sphere can be seen as specific instances of the n-dimensional hypersphere. More generally, an n-dimensional manifold is a space that locally looks like n-dimensional Euclidean space, but whose global structure may be non-Euclidean.
CONNOR
Conner, way to go on this list. I am going to use the word gawking towmorrow! I love the way it sounds. Nice work. Mrs. Short
ReplyDeletegyrating: revolve; whirlwind around.
ReplyDeletesputtered: makes series of spitting noises.
circuiter: distance around; path of electric current.
hulking: derelect, dismantled, ship. clumsy, unwieldly person.
Holden
Now those are some words! I'd have a hard time using them in my everyday talk. Could you? Mrs. Short
ReplyDeleteThese words came from my book that i am reading for my book report-----Vipero the snake Man.
ReplyDeleteFiery: burning, heated, impassioned.
falter: to hesitate
gully: a small gulch
writhed: to twist or move as if in pain, to thrash
cacti: a prickly succlent plant with thick stems that grow in hot,dry climeates
sheathed: to put into a case or covering
hazier: while dispersed while there are dust particles in the air that clouds the view
gesturing: any action of the hand or face
bestowed: to give something, to confer
taunted: to tease or make fun of someone, to ridicule
Holden
Awesome words! Mrs. Short
ReplyDelete