Thursday, December 31, 2009

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!

Saturday, November 28, 2009

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."

Thursday, November 26, 2009

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.