1. whimsical - Amby is a very whimisical child. We never know what she's going to do next.
2. indifferent - When it comes to the criticism of others, I am very indifferent. I only care about what I want to be and not what other want me to be.
3. equivocate - In debate competitions, we have to say things that equivocate. We can't let the other team have a statement that is easy for them to prove.
4. capricious - In competitions, I can be extremely capricious. No one knows when I'll do something because i'm very impulsive and unpredictable.
5. arbitrary - When I want things, I can be very arbitrary. I do things without thinking just to get my way.
6. ambiguous - At times, I can be very ambiguous. Sometimes I can be happy but other times very serious. People interpret me in different ways.
7. wily - Every year, a new group of wily sixth graders enter Chinquapin and look for ways to get along with as many people as possible.
8. wary - My nephew became very wary when he saw my graduation dress. He wanted to make sure I wasn't showing anything inappropriate.
9. disingenuous - I hate when people are disingenuous. I'd prefer for them to be straightforward rather than to beat around the bush.
10. spurious - Teenagers always tend to make spurious claims to make themselves appear "cool." Little do they know, everyone already knows about what they claim already.
11. ostentatious - Tons of wealthy people constantly try to wear name brand clothing as an ostentatious display of their wealth. They can't help but show off their great amount of wealth.
12. suppressed - The Class of 2010's commencement speaker's name was suppressed because they wanted it to be a surprise. They didn't want people finding out about it and telling others about it.
13. quandary - My sister was in a quandary because she didn't know if the aloe vera would help her daughter's severe burn. She was perplexed as to the effect it would have.
14. obscure - Today I saw a sticker that said something really disturbing to me. When I showed my dad, he didn't understand. The sticker had an obscure meaning. It was hidden and not everyone understood it.
15. objectivity - Teachers have to look at disciplinary issues with objectivity in order to give a fair punishment. If they let their personal feelings get in the way, they may not give a fair punishment.
16. arbiter - I've heard that sometimes parents who aren't married or involved at all have to get an arbiter to help them decide who gets custody of their child/ren and when the other can see him/her/them/.
17. conflagration - When in California, we learned about times where a conflagration killed huge areas of wildlife recreation. A day after we came home, a conflagration took place. The widespread fire destroyed an area that we backpacked in.
Monday, May 3, 2010
More!
1. inherent - My inherent fear of heights keeps stopping me from going skydiving. I don't understand why i'm so afraid now, I used to love heights.
2. dogmatic - My sister in law has a dogmatic belief that if we drink water with lemon, it'll make your blood bright red.
3. context - When debating, one has to be very careful with what we say because statements can be take out of context. This can change what you are trying to say.
4. assimilation - The assimilation of my mother's genes and my father's genes created me.
5. obstinate - I'm extremely obstinate to my opinions about abortion being wrong.
6. obdurate - I can be very obdurate when it comes to being right. I hate being wrong.
7. dogged - I hope that my dogged efforts to make an 85 for the semester in my AP English class pay off!
8. compelling - I tried coming up with a compelling explanation as to why I hadn't cleaned my room, but my mother didn't fall into my ridiculous claims.
9. tenuous - I was tenuous when taking my Environmental Science Quiz because I was unsure of a lot of the information on it.
10. superficial - I hate girls that are superficial and only care about what is on the outside. They should look within and stop being so shallow.
2. dogmatic - My sister in law has a dogmatic belief that if we drink water with lemon, it'll make your blood bright red.
3. context - When debating, one has to be very careful with what we say because statements can be take out of context. This can change what you are trying to say.
4. assimilation - The assimilation of my mother's genes and my father's genes created me.
5. obstinate - I'm extremely obstinate to my opinions about abortion being wrong.
6. obdurate - I can be very obdurate when it comes to being right. I hate being wrong.
7. dogged - I hope that my dogged efforts to make an 85 for the semester in my AP English class pay off!
8. compelling - I tried coming up with a compelling explanation as to why I hadn't cleaned my room, but my mother didn't fall into my ridiculous claims.
9. tenuous - I was tenuous when taking my Environmental Science Quiz because I was unsure of a lot of the information on it.
10. superficial - I hate girls that are superficial and only care about what is on the outside. They should look within and stop being so shallow.
Mas!
1. Eclectic – All of the students at school have a very eclectic fashion sense. I’ve never seen people dress so differently before.
2. Dilettante – I can’t help people with their science work because I am a dilettante who understands nothing about the subject.
3. Anthology – “Where the Sidewalk Ends” by Shel Silverstein is an anthology that contains a lot of her greatest poems.
4. Sanction – In Dave’s American Government class we learned that the United States, under the Kennedy administration, imposed sanctions over Cuba in order to protest Fidel Castro’s dictatorship.
5. Impinge – By telling the Yearbook Staff that the yearbook would possibly be published in black and white, Liz impinged their dreams of having an all color book.
6. Amenable – Since no one had really planned things for the beach house we wanted to rent, everyone seemed amenable when I showed them a house we could rent and the price we could get it for. They were very excited.
7. Transient – My mom always tells me to travel and do all of the things I love to do now before I have to settle down and give up my, oh so loved, transient lifestyle.
8. Elusive – Amby’s constant smiles are elusive when trying to take a picture of her because she doesn’t like people to take pictures of her smiling.
9. Inveterate – My siblings are very inveterate Pentecostals; they’ve never known anything other than being a Pentecostal.
10. Innate – Most people have are born being able to listen. To some it is an innate ability, but others are born not being able to hear.
2. Dilettante – I can’t help people with their science work because I am a dilettante who understands nothing about the subject.
3. Anthology – “Where the Sidewalk Ends” by Shel Silverstein is an anthology that contains a lot of her greatest poems.
4. Sanction – In Dave’s American Government class we learned that the United States, under the Kennedy administration, imposed sanctions over Cuba in order to protest Fidel Castro’s dictatorship.
5. Impinge – By telling the Yearbook Staff that the yearbook would possibly be published in black and white, Liz impinged their dreams of having an all color book.
6. Amenable – Since no one had really planned things for the beach house we wanted to rent, everyone seemed amenable when I showed them a house we could rent and the price we could get it for. They were very excited.
7. Transient – My mom always tells me to travel and do all of the things I love to do now before I have to settle down and give up my, oh so loved, transient lifestyle.
8. Elusive – Amby’s constant smiles are elusive when trying to take a picture of her because she doesn’t like people to take pictures of her smiling.
9. Inveterate – My siblings are very inveterate Pentecostals; they’ve never known anything other than being a Pentecostal.
10. Innate – Most people have are born being able to listen. To some it is an innate ability, but others are born not being able to hear.
More Sentences!
1. Ponderous – Sometimes teachers assign books to read that are extremely ponderous and make it impossible for us to finish reading the entire book on time.
2. Prosaic – I hate when people are prosaic and have no imagination. They need to be creative and do exciting things.
3. Sedentary – I hate being sedentary. I have to constantly travel to places because if I don’t, I get bored.
4. Apprehension – I feel a sense of apprehension just thinking about graduation. I’m extremely anxious but I’m scared of what will come after high school.
5. Harbinger – My ankle is a harbinger of cold weather. Every year, my ankle begins to hurt before chilly days begin.
6. Ominous – The letter I received in the mail from the bank was ominous because if I kept withdrawing so much money, I would’ve over drafted.
7. Premonition – I had a premonition that my sister would have a boy. My feeling was proved right when my sister brought her ultrasound pictures back to show us and it was indeed a boy!
8. Timorous – I was always timorous of going to high school because I thought people would just beat me up left and right. Now I know that, that isn’t true and no longer have fear.
9. Trepidation – We wrote a proposal to cut graduation with trepidation because we weren’t certain on how the administrative team would react.
10. Innovative – My sister is always coming up with innovative ways of keeping her daughter entertained. She comes up with the funniest things.
11. Naïve – He was naïve in his thoughts for his essay. It wasn’t at all sophisticated.
12. Nascent – As the children’s church leaders began their ministry, everyone could see their nascent abilities beginning to develop as the time went by.
13. Novel – The novel way that she introduced the new technique was glorified by many. They had never seen anyone introduce it that way before.
14. Novice – Every time I play video games, I play in the novice level. I’m not at expert just yet.
15. Candor – A lot of my friends have a great deal of candor. In my friend Pedro’s words, they “tell it how it is”.
16. Frank – I hate when people beat around the bush. I’d rather people be frank with me and tell me what is bothering them.
17. Arid – I could never live in an arid environment. I can’t see myself without a hot, sunny, environment.
2. Prosaic – I hate when people are prosaic and have no imagination. They need to be creative and do exciting things.
3. Sedentary – I hate being sedentary. I have to constantly travel to places because if I don’t, I get bored.
4. Apprehension – I feel a sense of apprehension just thinking about graduation. I’m extremely anxious but I’m scared of what will come after high school.
5. Harbinger – My ankle is a harbinger of cold weather. Every year, my ankle begins to hurt before chilly days begin.
6. Ominous – The letter I received in the mail from the bank was ominous because if I kept withdrawing so much money, I would’ve over drafted.
7. Premonition – I had a premonition that my sister would have a boy. My feeling was proved right when my sister brought her ultrasound pictures back to show us and it was indeed a boy!
8. Timorous – I was always timorous of going to high school because I thought people would just beat me up left and right. Now I know that, that isn’t true and no longer have fear.
9. Trepidation – We wrote a proposal to cut graduation with trepidation because we weren’t certain on how the administrative team would react.
10. Innovative – My sister is always coming up with innovative ways of keeping her daughter entertained. She comes up with the funniest things.
11. Naïve – He was naïve in his thoughts for his essay. It wasn’t at all sophisticated.
12. Nascent – As the children’s church leaders began their ministry, everyone could see their nascent abilities beginning to develop as the time went by.
13. Novel – The novel way that she introduced the new technique was glorified by many. They had never seen anyone introduce it that way before.
14. Novice – Every time I play video games, I play in the novice level. I’m not at expert just yet.
15. Candor – A lot of my friends have a great deal of candor. In my friend Pedro’s words, they “tell it how it is”.
16. Frank – I hate when people beat around the bush. I’d rather people be frank with me and tell me what is bothering them.
17. Arid – I could never live in an arid environment. I can’t see myself without a hot, sunny, environment.
Sentences!
1. Virtuoso – Many people have told me that my brother, Isai is a keyboard virtuoso because of his well known piano solo’s at our church. Hardly anyone has said he sucks.
2. Decorous – I gave my Sunday School class popsicles for their decorous attitude. I had to reward them for being so good in front of the Church’s pastor.
3. Stoic – Our class is not always stoic about punishments we receive. We make it known that we don’t think our punishments are fair.
4. Disparage – People who disparage others don’t care about other’s feelings. They only care about what they think and not how their negativity will affect others.
5. Pejorative – People who use pejorative terms when dealing with people who shouldn’t be brought down have no manners. They shouldn’t bring people down in that way.
6. Vilify – Sometimes people spread rumors that vilify others. For example, one girl started a rumor about seeing two girls making out in a closet. This was a lie. They were best friends and weren’t in a closet, but on opposite sides of the classroom. Now everyone says they’re lesbians.
7. Pugnacious – Amberlynn is extremely pugnacious. She fights with people just to get her way.
8. Reprehensible – It is reprehensible of the students to be eating in classrooms therefore they received detentions.
9. Deleterious – Taking too many pills at once can be extremely deleterious because this can cause someone to die.
10. Enmity – Both ex-best friends had a great enmity and wanted to attack each other after everything happened between them.
11. Heinous – When I get mad, I tend to do some heinous things as a way to get back at people. I know that isn’t a good way to handle things, but I still do it.
12. Archaic – My mother dresses in a very archaic way. She looks as if she’s still in the old days.
13. Hackneyed – My favorite shoes are these hackneyed heart print tennis shoes that I’ve had since 8th grade. They’re so comfortable but extremely worn out.
14. Medieval – Some older women at my church have a very medieval fashion sense. They dress as if they were still in their young days and are extremely old fashioned.
15. Mediocrity – Her paper was mediocre. There was nothing exceptionally great about it. It was actually not that good.
16. Mundane – Chinquapin is anything but mundane. Something is always different and exciting.
2. Decorous – I gave my Sunday School class popsicles for their decorous attitude. I had to reward them for being so good in front of the Church’s pastor.
3. Stoic – Our class is not always stoic about punishments we receive. We make it known that we don’t think our punishments are fair.
4. Disparage – People who disparage others don’t care about other’s feelings. They only care about what they think and not how their negativity will affect others.
5. Pejorative – People who use pejorative terms when dealing with people who shouldn’t be brought down have no manners. They shouldn’t bring people down in that way.
6. Vilify – Sometimes people spread rumors that vilify others. For example, one girl started a rumor about seeing two girls making out in a closet. This was a lie. They were best friends and weren’t in a closet, but on opposite sides of the classroom. Now everyone says they’re lesbians.
7. Pugnacious – Amberlynn is extremely pugnacious. She fights with people just to get her way.
8. Reprehensible – It is reprehensible of the students to be eating in classrooms therefore they received detentions.
9. Deleterious – Taking too many pills at once can be extremely deleterious because this can cause someone to die.
10. Enmity – Both ex-best friends had a great enmity and wanted to attack each other after everything happened between them.
11. Heinous – When I get mad, I tend to do some heinous things as a way to get back at people. I know that isn’t a good way to handle things, but I still do it.
12. Archaic – My mother dresses in a very archaic way. She looks as if she’s still in the old days.
13. Hackneyed – My favorite shoes are these hackneyed heart print tennis shoes that I’ve had since 8th grade. They’re so comfortable but extremely worn out.
14. Medieval – Some older women at my church have a very medieval fashion sense. They dress as if they were still in their young days and are extremely old fashioned.
15. Mediocrity – Her paper was mediocre. There was nothing exceptionally great about it. It was actually not that good.
16. Mundane – Chinquapin is anything but mundane. Something is always different and exciting.
Friday, April 16, 2010
Sentences!
Ornate: When I saw my sister's wedding dress, I was in awe! The dress was so ornate and beautiful. It was clear that the designer gave each little bead on the dress a lot of thought and did his best to make it the most beautifully decorated dress.
Malleable: The clay we worked with in Ceramics class was very malleable when wet. Once it was dry, it was impossible to shape it into something.
Intuition: When I was younger, I thought that I was so special because I somehow figured out a lot of things before they happened. Then, my brother told me it was because the things I figured out were obvious, not because I had some type of intuition. I was so bummed.
Emigrate: Tons of people, like my grandparents, emigrate to a different city, state, or country in order to make a better life for themselves and their family. My grandparents came to the United States with a worker's permit and worked here, legally, so that my father, aunts, and uncles could have a better life.
Genre: Out of all the genre's of music, my favorites would have to be country, acoustic, and soft rock. There are so many different categories of music, that it's difficult to choose just one!
Mural: For our graduation, I wanted to cover up the murals in the gym. I simply thought that those huge paintings on the wall would be a distraction during the ceremony and not very elegant.
Narrative: I have realized that my "excerpts" on this vocabulary blog have become more like narratives of my life. They're stories rather than pieces of stories. Or is my life a narrative and the blogs excerpts since they are pieces of my life?
Parody: The other day I saw a parody of Miley Cyrus' "The 7 Things I Hate About You" music video. It was so hilarious because the person imitating Miley's singing and dancing was being so exaggerated with his movements and made himself look ridiculous with a wig and girl clothes on.
Realism: When I visited the Holocaust Musem in Washington DC, I thought the pictures showed a great realism of how things were back then. Whoever took the pictures really knew how to capture what was going on with great accuracy.
Discredit: My friends and I went out for dinner when I returned from my trip to Spain this summer. They told our waiter that it was my birthday and if they could bring me a slice of cake to celebrate. Their claim was easily discredited when they asked for my ID and saw that it really wasn't my birthday.
Plagarism: Everytime we have an assignment for school, our teachers ask us to site our resources so we won't be blamed of plagarism. By citing the sources, we're acknowledging that the ideas aren't ours and that the information we used came from outside sources.
Austere: I walked into my church a couple of months ago and saw that it looked very austere. The decorations had been taken down and the walls had been painted an almost white blue color. It looked plain and ugly.
Malleable: The clay we worked with in Ceramics class was very malleable when wet. Once it was dry, it was impossible to shape it into something.
Intuition: When I was younger, I thought that I was so special because I somehow figured out a lot of things before they happened. Then, my brother told me it was because the things I figured out were obvious, not because I had some type of intuition. I was so bummed.
Emigrate: Tons of people, like my grandparents, emigrate to a different city, state, or country in order to make a better life for themselves and their family. My grandparents came to the United States with a worker's permit and worked here, legally, so that my father, aunts, and uncles could have a better life.
Genre: Out of all the genre's of music, my favorites would have to be country, acoustic, and soft rock. There are so many different categories of music, that it's difficult to choose just one!
Mural: For our graduation, I wanted to cover up the murals in the gym. I simply thought that those huge paintings on the wall would be a distraction during the ceremony and not very elegant.
Narrative: I have realized that my "excerpts" on this vocabulary blog have become more like narratives of my life. They're stories rather than pieces of stories. Or is my life a narrative and the blogs excerpts since they are pieces of my life?
Parody: The other day I saw a parody of Miley Cyrus' "The 7 Things I Hate About You" music video. It was so hilarious because the person imitating Miley's singing and dancing was being so exaggerated with his movements and made himself look ridiculous with a wig and girl clothes on.
Realism: When I visited the Holocaust Musem in Washington DC, I thought the pictures showed a great realism of how things were back then. Whoever took the pictures really knew how to capture what was going on with great accuracy.
Discredit: My friends and I went out for dinner when I returned from my trip to Spain this summer. They told our waiter that it was my birthday and if they could bring me a slice of cake to celebrate. Their claim was easily discredited when they asked for my ID and saw that it really wasn't my birthday.
Plagarism: Everytime we have an assignment for school, our teachers ask us to site our resources so we won't be blamed of plagarism. By citing the sources, we're acknowledging that the ideas aren't ours and that the information we used came from outside sources.
Austere: I walked into my church a couple of months ago and saw that it looked very austere. The decorations had been taken down and the walls had been painted an almost white blue color. It looked plain and ugly.
Daddy Dearest II. (:
I remember thinking at one point in my childhood that my father was omnipotent. I thought he could do anything and everything! I saw how he would fix things that everyone said were no longer usable. He carried on many reclamation projects that others had completely given up on. He had a profound feeling of responsiblity for his family. He worked and gave us everything we needed. But as time went by, it became rare for him to do these things. It was sort of like an obsolete cassette player that you loved so much but you upgraded when CD players came into existence. Sure you have great memories with the cassette player, but they're rare to find -- almost impossible and you now have to get used to the new "thing." My perception of him changed soon after. I guess it's something every child goes through. When you're young, your parent is a true hero, put as you gain a different perspective throughout the years, you realize that you were wrong as a kid. Everything you thought as a kid becomes completely inconsequential. Those ideas you had as a child are thrown out the window and replaced by new ideas you derived through personal life experiences. Everything I knew as a child became trivial. What I thought of my dad was no longer significant. This new father of mine caused me to have no conception of the man he was before. Those memories faded away. Those enlightening words he told me as a child that made me want to reach for the stars, those medleys he created and sang to me when I was sick, and his facetious manner disappeared little by little.
When I first realized this, I was quite melancholic. I obviously wanted my old daddy back. I couldn't believe that the man that he had become was the same man who was always so cordial to his family and friends. Sure I still loved him, but it seemed as if it was incumbent for me to feel like that simply because I was his daughter and that was my responsibility. I remember looking at him sleeping in his bed as the TV blared and my mother was at work and thinking of the man who would lock himself in his bedroom, the room he used as an asylum, to pray and read the bible. I felt such a sadness to see him just laying there.
But just recently, I realized something. No one remains the same forever. Everyone changes and there's nothing I can do about it. But, I can love my dad for the person he is and not for the person he once was. And, I do. I truly do love my father, bad temper and all.
When I first realized this, I was quite melancholic. I obviously wanted my old daddy back. I couldn't believe that the man that he had become was the same man who was always so cordial to his family and friends. Sure I still loved him, but it seemed as if it was incumbent for me to feel like that simply because I was his daughter and that was my responsibility. I remember looking at him sleeping in his bed as the TV blared and my mother was at work and thinking of the man who would lock himself in his bedroom, the room he used as an asylum, to pray and read the bible. I felt such a sadness to see him just laying there.
But just recently, I realized something. No one remains the same forever. Everyone changes and there's nothing I can do about it. But, I can love my dad for the person he is and not for the person he once was. And, I do. I truly do love my father, bad temper and all.
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