Vocabulary : Review

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Adv Comp 01 14 08

• Vocabulary Review
• Unit 4 Creative Writing
• Narration assignment Laws of Life Essay
• sss The Senior Project sss
• Discuss the 1 page MLA format - Topic Proposal
  due Tues January 15

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Vocabulary Unit 4

• Review

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• (adj.) frantic, highly agitated
• floating debris homeless impoverished people
• (n often plural) urgency, pressure, urgent
  demand, pressing need an emergency
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• Frenetic
• Flotsam
• Exigency

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• (vb.) to gather bit by bit to gather small
  quantities of grain left in a field by reapers
• (n) a type of game bird (vb.) to complain,
  grumble
• (adj.) ridiculous, laughable, absurd

• Glean
• Grouse
• Ludicrous

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• (adj.) contemptibly cowardly or mean-spirited
• (adj.) in a a reclining position, lying down, in
  the posture of one sleeping or resting
• adj.) pleasing, tending to create a favorable
  impression

• Pusillanimous
• Recumbent
• Prepossessing

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• (n.) a state of agreement harmony a treaty
• (n) a disorder, confusion (v) to throw into
  disorder
• (adj.) complete or perfect in the highest degree
  (v.) to bring to a state of completion or
  perfection

• Concord
• Disarray
• Consummate

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• (vb.) to affirm earnestly and with emphasis.
• (n) the wasting away of a body organ or tissue
  any progressive decline or failure (vb.) to
  waste away.
• (n) a fortified place, stronghold.

• Asseverate
• Atrophy
• Bastion

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• (adj.) humorous, jesting, jolly, joking
• (adj.) obligatory, required (n.) one who holds a
  specific office at the time spoken of
• (vb.) to imprison, confine, jail

• Jocular
• Incumbent
• Incarcerate

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• (adj.) consisting of or measured in money of or
  related to money
• (adj.) biting or caustic in thought, manner or
  style
• (n.) a prickly or stinging plant (vb.) to
  arouse displeasure, impatience, or anger to vex
  or irritate severely

• Pecuniary
• Mordant
• Nettle

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• (n.) a scheme to outwit or deceive an opponent or
  to gain an end.

• Stratagem

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Adv Comp 01 11 08

• Unit 4 Creative Writing
• Lesson on Narration H\Creative
  Writing\Narration.ppt
• Discuss Finishing School pp 89-93
• Answers to COMREHENSION, PURPOSE AND
  AUDIENCE, STYLE AND STRUCTURE p 93
• sss The Senior Project sss
• Discuss the 1 page MLA format - Topic Proposal
  due Tues January 15

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• 1 page MLA format - Topic Proposal due Tues
  January 15
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