Scimitar

Before you look it up, what do you think the word means?

Laconic

For some reason I keep thinking this word means lazy, sleepy or scatter-brained. THIS IS NOT word means. :)

Lugubriousness

I thought I knew what this word meant, but when I looked it up, I was wrong! :)

Pro forma

Read it in a NY Times film review.

Consecrate

Again I was pretty sure I knew this word, but I had to look it up to be sure. So should you!

Countermand

www.freerice.com

I thought I knew what this word meant, but I was wrong!

Cloister

OK, I know what those word means, but I didn't until I was 19 so maybe you should find out if you don't know either!

Baobab

From freerice.com

Free Rice

Check out this website: I think it's kinda fun to play the vocab game and it's supposed to be a for a good cause.

http://www.freerice.com/

It will help you with SAT Vocab words. (Seriously, I saw a lot of them on there!)

Quotidian

I read this in a NY Times news article. I was pretty sure I knew what it meant, but I wasn't sure.

Quarter 2 Done

Quarter 2 is pau! Wow. Okay, so you needed to have posted your definition or sentence(s) by the Monday before the end of the quarter. We're starting a new quarter and I'm going to start posting new words before the quarter starts to get a jump start!

Immolate

Found in Linh Dinh's All Around What Empties Out.
In the poem, "Sleeping Beauty."

Susurration

Found in Linh Dinh's All Around What Empties Out.
In a poem, "What's My Name?"

Motate

Found in Linh Dinh's All Around What Empties Out.
A poem titled, "Motate."

Peripatetic

Found in Linh Dinh's All Around What Empties Out.

Title: A Peripatetic Purveyor of Nothing

Farina

Found in Linh Dinh's All Around What Empties Out.
A poem titled, "Laced Farina."

Lassitude

Found in Linh Dinh's All Around What Empties Out.
A title of a section of poems, "A Small Triumph Over Lassitude."

Synecdoche

Found online at SPD books in a review of a book the critic writes: "who knows the difference between metonymy and synecdoche?"

Orphic

Found online: "Orphic joyride" in a book review on SPD books.