Sunday, March 9, 2008

Honors English 11 Vocab Week 7

The following terms are from the copy of Ralph Waldo Emerson's Self-Reliance:

01. eminent (1)
02. admonition
03. latent
04. ascribe
05. naught
06. firmament
07. envy (n.)
08. manifest (2)
09. invalids
10. oracles
11. disconcerted
12. prattle
13. piquancy
14. nonchalance
15. disdain
16. conciliate
17. eclat
18. formidable (3)
19. aversion
20. ephemeral

4 comments:

Claire Avery said...

Is the manifest definition we have to know a noun, verb, or an adjective?

Mr. Morris said...

"It may be safely trusted as proportionate and of good issues, so it be faithfully imparted, but God will not have his work made manifest by cowards." Here, "manifest" describes "work," so...

Claire Avery said...

Noun.

Mr. Morris said...

Adjective.