Choice Unit--Day 6

Today we worked on vocabulary for the choice books.

Homework: Read the assigned pages in your notebook. Bring your outside reading book to class tomorrow. Also, start thinking about the discussion questions/responses due Thursday.

If you were absent, please print the vocabulary for your book (below--or find it on Edline). In your notebook, write out each word, its dictionary definition, and 2 synonyms for it. Here are the lists:

Vocabulary: Slaughter-House-Five

1.Dilates (15/20)
2. Lugubrious (105/134)
3. Imperishable (15/20)
4. Avuncular (130/166)
5. Magnanimity (15/20)
6. Sniveling (127/162)
7. Myriad (133/169)
8. Furlough (32/40)
9. Patronizing (138/176)
10. Addled (33/42)
11. Floridly (142/181)
12. Hankering (38\49)
13. Voluptuous (148/189)
14. Ramshackle (52/67)
15. Palpated (151/192)
16. Abominable (151/193)
17. Festooned (64/82)
18. Golliwogs (156/199)
19. Balderdash (67/86)
20. Bucolic (157/200)
21. Luminous (72/91)
22. Diffident (160/204)
23. Gallant (74/93)
24. Extrapolating (75/95)
25. Adulation (170/217)
26. Acrimonious (79/100)
27. Impudent (171/217)
28. Raptly (89/113)
29. Psychosomatic (173/220)
30. Impresario (90/114)

Vocabulary: The Weight of All Things

1. caromed (3)
2. imploration (4)
3. redolence (8)
4. enigmatic (15)
5. indurate (25)
6. fastidious (49)
7. sonorous (68)
8. laconic (69)
9. malodorous (90)
10. conflagration (91)
11. despondent (98)
12. taciturn (105)
13. reconnaissance (117)
14. ruefully (119)
15. encumbrance (120)
16. reconnoitered (123)
17. nonchalant (123)
18. litany (130)
19. talisman (132)
20. millet (142)
21. myriad (151)
22. garrison (151)
23. lintel (152)
24. subversive (152)
25. traversed (157)
26. gossamer (171)
27. unguent (192)
28. allay (209)
29. penchant (222)
30. fusillade (229)

Vocabulary: In the Time of the Butterflies

1. Posthumous (3)
2. Volition (45)
3. Obligatory (3)
4. Beatific (48)
5. Impertinent (4)
6. Titter (71)
7. Veritable (4)
8. Subversive (75)
9. Shies (5)
10. Constituency (136)
11. Prickly (5)
12. Disillusioned (141)
13. Monolithic (7)
14. Admonitions (195)
15. Circumscribed (7)
16. Parceling (199)
17. Transcending (7)
18. Contraband (198)
19. Gullible (9)
20. Invariably (200)
21. Agitating (9)
22. Pious (9)
23. Gabardine (202)
24. Immaculate (17)
25. Catechism (31)
26. Contingent (207)
27. Contrition (31)
28. Bemoan (36)
29. Desecrating (207)
30. Extol (51)