Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Hon. 11 Vocab Week Triskaidekaphobia

This is from my Scribner Paperback Fiction edition of The Great Gatsby.

01. levity (5)
02. plagiaristic (6)
03. excursions
04. bungalow (8)
05. reproach (10)
06. wistfully
07. supercilious (11)
08. effeminate
09. swank
10. fractiousness
11. vista (12)
12. pungent
13. divan (13)
14. imperceptibly
15. deft (15)
16. incredulously
17. imperatively (16)
18. unobtrusively
19. infinitesimal (18)
20. extemporizing (19)

Monday, April 21, 2008

Hon. 11 Vocab Week 12

The words below are from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Page number are from my copy.

01. haphazard (Huck Finn) -
02. painstakingly (Huck Finn) -
03. victuals (1) -
04. tolerable (2) -
05. particular (2) -
06. providence (10) -
07. airs (18) -
08. nabob (24) -
09. delirium tremens (25) -
10. roust (27) -
11. palavering (27) -
12. slough (check context !) (30) -
13. brash (35) -
14. fantods (37) -
15. security (check the context!) (42) -
16. bluffs (44) -
17. rummaged (47) -
18. varmint (47) -
19. jabbering (57) -
20. derrick (60) -

Monday, April 14, 2008

Hon. 11 Vocab Week 11

Again, apologies for the lack of alacrity in posting. The words for this week are gathered from our copy of "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County." Pagination noted below:

01. compliance (1)
02. garrulous
03. append
04. personage
05. conjectured
06. exasperating
07. reminiscence
08. tedious
09. dilapidated (blast from the past!)
10. countenance
11. commissioned
12. blockaded
13. monotonous
14. interminable
15. transcendent
16. finesse
17. enterprising (4)
18. vagabond
19. recommenced (5)
20. afflicted (should also look familiar)

Monday, April 7, 2008

Hon. English 11 Vocabulary Week 10

The following words are gleaned from your copy of "Chickamauga"

01. rude (1)
02. hewn
03. dominion
04. intrepid
05. prudence
06. curb (v.)
07. formidable
08. immemorial (2)
09. acclivity
10. gait
11. prone
12. clad
13. grotesque
14. caricatured (3)
15. maculated
16. spoor
17. martial
18. exodus (4)
19. conspicuous
20. conflagration