1.24.2014

Periods 2, 4, & 7 Word of the Week: callipygian

Welcome to the second semester!  For our first word of the week, three of Ms. B's four new classes selected callipygian.

We used www.dictionary.com to look up the word, and we found out that it means "having well-shaped buttocks."  The origin of the word is Greek, as it was originally used to describe a statue of the goddess Aphrodite.

Our classes constructed some sentences to demonstrate our understanding of the word callipygian:

1. Shorty is so fine, her rear is callipygian.
2. Those pants make her rear end look callipygian.
3. Kim Kardashian had surgery because she wanted to have a callipygian booty.

Period 3 Word of the Week: cacophony

For the very first Word of the Week of our new school semester, period 3 selected cacophony.  A cacophony is a "harsh discordance of sound, dissonance, or a discordant and meaningless mixture of sounds."

We wrote two sentences to demonstrate our understanding of the word:

1. Dubstep is a cacophony.
2. The construction noise is cacophonous.

Subdue

Ferny

Tandem

Grandeur