Nullify

Abasement

Knotty

Engender

Bilk

Abrasive

Placid

Bigot

Abhor

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.

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

Maimed

abjure

stirred

Entity