This week, period 3 selected piety as our word of the week. Piety is "the quality of being religious or reverent." After a lengthy discussion of the Dalai Lama, our class came up with this sentence:
The Dalai Lama's piety attracts many followers to Buddhism.
3.21.2014
Period 2 Word of the Week: predilection
On March 21, period 2 selected predilection as our word of the week. A predilection is "a preference or special liking for something," or "a bias in favor of something." This week, the sentence we wrote to demonstrate our understanding of predilection was:
Students have a predilection for teachers who give less homework.
Students have a predilection for teachers who give less homework.
Period 7 Word of the Week: zealot
Enthusiastic period 7 selected zealot as our word of the week. A zealot is "a person who is fanatical and uncompromising in pursuit of their religious, political, or other ideals." The class felt that we have a group of zealots present here at GHS:
The G'burg Junkies are zealots; they attend every GHS sports event.
The G'burg Junkies are zealots; they attend every GHS sports event.
Period 4 Word of the Week: abate
As a result of a voting conspiracy, our class selected abate as our word of the week. To abate is to "become less intense or widespread." The word usually refers to negative things that decrease in intensity or reach. After a lengthy discussion of things that can abate, our class settled on the following sentence:
Aurora's cries abate as she falls asleep.
Aurora's cries abate as she falls asleep.
3.14.2014
Period 2 Word of the Week: intrepid
This week, brave and bold period 2 forged ahead in selecting intrepid as our word of the week. Intrepid means fearless, daring, or bold. Many superheroes are characterized this way, but students in our class thought Batman would be the best candidate for a sentence (which, coincidentally, turned out to be quite alliterative):
Batman must be intrepid when battling Bane because Bane broke Batman's back before.
Batman must be intrepid when battling Bane because Bane broke Batman's back before.
Period 7 Word of the Week: fallacious
This week, period 7 selected fallacious as our word of the week. Fallacious means "based on a mistaken belief." After learning the definition, our class had a heated discussion about whether or not blood is blue when it is not oxygenated. As a result, we devised the following sentence:
Is the argument that blood is blue fallacious?
Is the argument that blood is blue fallacious?
Period 3 Word of the Week: Dogmatic
Period 3 selected dogmatic as our current word of the week. Dogmatic means "inclined to lay down principles as incontrovertibly true." We reviewed some synonyms to help us understand the word dogmatic, and these included rigid and inflexible.
We then devised a sentence to help us understand the meaning of the word:
Kim Jong Un is a dogmatic leader; his word is law, and breaking the law is punishable by death.
We then devised a sentence to help us understand the meaning of the word:
Kim Jong Un is a dogmatic leader; his word is law, and breaking the law is punishable by death.
Period 4 Word of the Week: Trepidation
Students in period 4 elected to use trepidation as our word of the week. Trepidation is a feeling of fear or agitation about something that may happen. No one had any trepidation about making up a sentence to help us understand the word:
Kia had trepidation about telling Jordan her true feelings because he might reject her.
Kia had trepidation about telling Jordan her true feelings because he might reject her.
3.07.2014
Periods 4 and 7 Word of the Week: banal
Oh, blah! Periods 4 and 7 selected banal as their word of the week. How unoriginal!
Banal means something so lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring.
Here's what we wrote:
1. #YOLO is so banal; only freshmen still say it.
2. Sharkeisha remix videos are so banal; everyone in my eighth-period class has made one.
Banal means something so lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring.
Here's what we wrote:
1. #YOLO is so banal; only freshmen still say it.
2. Sharkeisha remix videos are so banal; everyone in my eighth-period class has made one.
Period 2 Word of the Week: enigma
This week, period two solved a the mystery of an undefined word by selecting enigma as our word of the week. An enigma is a person or thing that is mysterious, puzzling, or difficult to understand.
After much debate, we wrote the following sentence:
The Illuminati are an enigma because we don't know who the members are or if they even exist.
After much debate, we wrote the following sentence:
The Illuminati are an enigma because we don't know who the members are or if they even exist.
Period 3 Word of the Week: gregarious
This week, Ms. B's third period class selected gregarious as our word of the week. Gregarious means fond of company or sociable. We wrote a sentence about Greg, our fictionally sociable friend:
My friend Greg is gregarious; he is always partying on Friday nights.
My friend Greg is gregarious; he is always partying on Friday nights.
2.21.2014
Period 7 Word of the Week: tittup
Predictable period 7 selected tittup as the word we will study next week. Tittup has two definitions:
1. an exaggerated prancing, bouncing movement or manner of moving;
2. to move, especially to walk, in an exaggerated prancing or bouncing way, as a spirited horse.
Ms. B not only demonstrated what a tittup might look like, but she also gave an example of when the word tittup was used in last year's spring musical, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. The class also crafted a sentence to demonstrate our understanding of the word:
Kate tittuped out of school on Friday afternoon because she was ready for her weekend.
1. an exaggerated prancing, bouncing movement or manner of moving;
2. to move, especially to walk, in an exaggerated prancing or bouncing way, as a spirited horse.
Ms. B not only demonstrated what a tittup might look like, but she also gave an example of when the word tittup was used in last year's spring musical, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. The class also crafted a sentence to demonstrate our understanding of the word:
Kate tittuped out of school on Friday afternoon because she was ready for her weekend.
Period 3 Word of the Week: venerate
This week, period 3 voted for venerate to be our word of the week. Venerate means, "to regard or treat with reverence, to revere." We discussed that in layman's terms, that means to respect or look up to someone.
The class insisted that Ms. B should be the subject of our sentence:
"We all venerate Ms. B because of her intelligence and enthusiastic personality."
The class insisted that Ms. B should be the subject of our sentence:
"We all venerate Ms. B because of her intelligence and enthusiastic personality."
Period 2 Word of the Week: scrupulous
This week, period 2 selected scrupulous as our word of the week. Scrupulous has two meanings:
1. having scruples 0 having or showing strict regard for what one considers right or principled;
2. punctiliously or minutely careful, precise, or exact.
To demonstrate our understanding of the word scrupulous, we invented a sentence:
Scrupulous Bob plays by the rules; he never skips class because he has OCD and would freak out.
1. having scruples 0 having or showing strict regard for what one considers right or principled;
2. punctiliously or minutely careful, precise, or exact.
To demonstrate our understanding of the word scrupulous, we invented a sentence:
Scrupulous Bob plays by the rules; he never skips class because he has OCD and would freak out.
Period 4 Word of the Week: iconoclastic
Period 4 selected an excellent word as this week's champion: iconoclastic. The word has two definitions:
1. attacking or ignoring cherished beliefs and long-held traditions as being based on error, superstition, or lack of creativity;
2. breaking or destroying images, especially those set up for religious veneration.
The sentence we wrote to demonstrate our understanding is:
"John blew up* Hallmark to send an iconoclastic message against Valentine's Day."
* Period 4 in no way advocates violence in the name of iconoclasm.
1. attacking or ignoring cherished beliefs and long-held traditions as being based on error, superstition, or lack of creativity;
2. breaking or destroying images, especially those set up for religious veneration.
The sentence we wrote to demonstrate our understanding is:
"John blew up* Hallmark to send an iconoclastic message against Valentine's Day."
* Period 4 in no way advocates violence in the name of iconoclasm.
2.18.2014
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2.07.2014
Period 2 Word of the Week: Prestidigitation
This week, period 2 chose prestidigitation as our word of the week. Prestidigitation means "slight of hand," or being skilled with the hands and fingers, as is a magician who plays tricks.
The sentence we wrote to demonstrate our understanding of this word is: "The magician was horrible at prestidigitation; his card tricks were terrible."
The sentence we wrote to demonstrate our understanding of this word is: "The magician was horrible at prestidigitation; his card tricks were terrible."
Periods 3 & 7 Word of the Week: Usufruct
Periods 3 and 7 selected usufruct as the word of the week. According to www.dictionary.com, usufruct means:
"The right of enjoying all the advantages from the use of something that belongs to another, as far as is compatible with the substance of the thing not being destroyed or injured."
To demonstrate our tenuous understanding of this old legal term, we wrote sentences:
1. Devin enjoyed the wifi usufruct at McDonald's.
2. Lexi's baby cousin uses her cell phone usufruct to play games.
"The right of enjoying all the advantages from the use of something that belongs to another, as far as is compatible with the substance of the thing not being destroyed or injured."
To demonstrate our tenuous understanding of this old legal term, we wrote sentences:
1. Devin enjoyed the wifi usufruct at McDonald's.
2. Lexi's baby cousin uses her cell phone usufruct to play games.
Period 4 Word of the Week: Antidisestablishmentarianism
Period 4 selected antidisestablishmentarianism as our word of the week. Forgive me for not wanting to type it repeatedly, as it is very long! The word means:
"Opposition to the withdrawal of state support or recognition from an established church."
Our sentence to demonstrate our understanding was:
In NSL we learned about antidisestablishmentarianism, which is being against taking away government money from churches.
"Opposition to the withdrawal of state support or recognition from an established church."
Our sentence to demonstrate our understanding was:
In NSL we learned about antidisestablishmentarianism, which is being against taking away government money from churches.
1.31.2014
Periods 2 & 3 Word of the Week: adumbrate
This week periods 2 and 3 selected adumbrate as our word of the week. Adumbrate means:
1. to produce a faint image or resemblance - to outline or sketch;
2. to foreshadow or prefigure;
3. to darken or conceal partially, to overshadow.
We wrote some sentences to demonstrate our understanding of the word:
1. Jamie went to a fortune teller so she could adumbrate his future.
2. The girl adumbrated her blemishes with concealer.
1. to produce a faint image or resemblance - to outline or sketch;
2. to foreshadow or prefigure;
3. to darken or conceal partially, to overshadow.
We wrote some sentences to demonstrate our understanding of the word:
1. Jamie went to a fortune teller so she could adumbrate his future.
2. The girl adumbrated her blemishes with concealer.
Periods 4 & 7 Word of the Week: apopletic
Periods 4 and 7 selected apopletic as this week's word for learning. An apopletic is "a person having or predisposed to apoplexy." We also looked up apoplexy, and we discovered that it means having strokes.
Our sentences demonstrating understanding of the word apopletic are:
1. Kelvin's story is inspirational because despite his apopletic history, he is still a great sprinter.
2. Gertrude is an apopletic; she has a stroke every three to four minutes.
Our sentences demonstrating understanding of the word apopletic are:
1. Kelvin's story is inspirational because despite his apopletic history, he is still a great sprinter.
2. Gertrude is an apopletic; she has a stroke every three to four minutes.
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.
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.
We wrote two sentences to demonstrate our understanding of the word:
1. Dubstep is a cacophony.
2. The construction noise is cacophonous.
1.23.2014
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12.13.2013
Periods 4 & 8 Word of the Week - scleroderma
This week, both period 4 and period 8 voted for scleroderma to be our word of the week. This medical term means, "a group of rare diseases involving the hardening and tightening of the skin and connective tissue."
Our sentences to show our understanding of the word scleroderma are:
1. Susy has scleroderma in her hand, which hinders her ability to write.
2. Miley had scleroderma, so, thankfully, she could not twerk.
Our sentences to show our understanding of the word scleroderma are:
1. Susy has scleroderma in her hand, which hinders her ability to write.
2. Miley had scleroderma, so, thankfully, she could not twerk.
Period 6 Word of the Week - sonorous
This week, period 6 selected sonorous as our word of the week. We were able to guess that the word sonorous has something to do with sound because of the root word "sono." We looked up the dictionary definition, and here is what we found:
Sonorous means, "giving out a deep, resonant sound; loud, deep, or resonant in sound; or rich and full in sound."
Our sentence for this week was: Matthew does not want to sing and share his sonorous voice with the class.
Sonorous means, "giving out a deep, resonant sound; loud, deep, or resonant in sound; or rich and full in sound."
Our sentence for this week was: Matthew does not want to sing and share his sonorous voice with the class.
Period 3 Word of the Week - hilarity
Period 3's word of the week is hilarity. Most students understood that this word has something to do with humor, or, as one student said, "hilariousness." We decided that enough students know the word that we did not need to look up the dictionary definition. We said that the definition of this word is "the humor or humorousness" of a joke or situation. We clarified hilarity is a noun, as opposed to the more common form of the word, hilarious, which is an adjective.
Our sentence to demonstrate our understanding of the word is: The hilarity of Lorenzo's fall made the whole class laugh.
Our sentence to demonstrate our understanding of the word is: The hilarity of Lorenzo's fall made the whole class laugh.
12.08.2013
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