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Friday, November 8, 2013

Vocabulary #5

Adroit: Skillful and/or clever
Amicable: Friendly, peaceable
Averse: Having a strong feeling of opposition 
Belligerent: Aggressively hostile
Benevolent: Desiring to help others
Cursory: Going over something rapidly, without noticing details
Duplicity: Speaking or acting in two different ways to different people concerning the same matter
Extol: To praise highly
Feasible: Easy
Grimace: A facial expression, often ugly or contorted, that indicates disapproval or pain
Holocaust: Any mass slaughter or reckless destruction of life
ImperviousImpenetrable
Impetus: A moving force
Jeopardy: Peril or danger
Meticulous: Showing extreme care about little details
Nostalgia: A sight, smell, sound that reminds you of a former time in life
Quintessence: The pure and concentrated essence of a substance
Retrogress: To go backward into an earlier and usually worse condition
Scrutinize: To examine in detail with careful or critical attention
Tepid: Characterized by a lack or force or enthusiasm 

No Child Left Untableted

As of June, every student and teacher in the18 of the 24 middle schools in Greensboro, N.C., received brand new computer tablets. A total of 15,450 tablets. Do you believe that students should be able to use tablets at school? Well, I believe they should be. Having the opportunity to use open source learning has opened my mind up to the internet. If used correctly, the internet can be a very educational tool. It makes it easier to look up information for projects or essays. As long as the students don't abuse the opportunity to have the tablets. Now, I believe that students should have a time for class. It's very easy for kids to turn into robots. I know when I use my phone/iPod in class (for educational purposes or not) it is VERY easy to get distracted. There should be a rule on when they get to use them and when they cannot. I would hate to see this world turn into something like a scene from Wall-e. Every teacher should be able to have the option on whether or not they want their students to have these tablets. As long as these tablets are used for what they are supposed to be used for, I believe in this method 100%.

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Vocabulary #4

Accede: to give consent, approval, or adherence
Brandish: to shake or wave, as a weapon
Comprise: to include or contain
Deft: nimble; skillful; clever
Destitute: without means of subsistence; lacking food, clothing, and shelter.
Explicit: fully and clearly expressed or demonstrated
Extirpate: to remove or destroy totally
Inopportune: inappropriate
Ironic: using words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
Musty: having an odor or flavor suggestive of mold
Officious: objectionably aggressive in offering one's unrequested and unwanted services, help, or advice
Ominous: portending evil or harm; foreboding; threatening
Pinnacle: any pointed, towering part or formation
Premeditated: done deliberately; planned in advance
Rampant: violent in action or spirit
Solace: comfort in sorrow, misfortune, or trouble
Stately: majestic; imposing in magnificence, elegance
Supple: bending readily without breaking or becoming deformed
Suppress: to put an end to the activities of (a person, body of persons, etc.)
Venal: willing to sell one's influence, especially in return for a bribe

Will Study For Food!

So, I don't plan on going to college right after high school. I actually plan on joining the Army. Hopefully I will be able to enroll soon. One of the main reasons why I'm joining is because it'll pay for college, so I don't need a scholarship (obviously). After the Army, I hope to go to college at UCSD to study zoology. I've always wanted to work with zoo animals, especially lions.

Vocabulary #3

Accomplice: a person who knowingly helps another in a crime or wrongdoing, often as a subordinate.
Annihilate: to reduce to utter ruin or nonexistence; destroy utterly
Arbitrary: subject to individual will or judgment without restriction
Brazen: shameless or impudent
Catalyst: a person or thing that precipitates an event or change
Exodus: a going out; a departure or emigration, usually of a large number of people
Facilitate: to make easier or less difficult
Incorrigible: not easily swayed or influenced
Latent: present but not visible, apparent, or actualized
Militant: vigorously active and aggressive
Morose: gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a person or mood.
Opaque: not transparent or translucent; impenetrable to light; not allowing light to pass through.
Paramount: above others in rank or authority; superior in power or jurisdiction.
Prattle: to talk in a foolish or simple-minded way; chatter; babble.
Rebut: to oppose by contrary proof.
Reprimand: a severe reproof or rebuke, especially a formal one by a person in authority.
Servitude: compulsory service or labor as a punishment for criminals
Slapdash: hasty and careless
Stagnant: not flowing or running
Succumb: to give way to superior force

Vocabulary #2

Obesity: excessively fat or fleshy; corpulent 
Accumulate: to gather or collect, often in gradual degrees
Mass: a body of coherent matter, usually of indefinite shape and often of considerable size
Diseasea disordered or incorrectly functioning organ, part, structure, or system of the body resulting from the effect of genetic or developmental errors, infection, poisons, nutritional deficiency or imbalance, toxicity, or unfavorable environmental factors; illness; sickness; ailment.
Diet: food and drink considered in terms of its qualities, composition, and its effects on health
Prevalence: widespread or current 
Stigma: a mark of disgrace or infamy; a stain or reproach, as on one's reputation.
Prevent(able): to keep from occurring
Adolescent: growing to manhood or womanhood; youthful.
Cardiovascular: of or relating to the heart and the blood vessels 
Excessive: going beyond the usual, necessary, or proper limit or degree
Mechanism: an assembly of moving parts performing a complete functional motion, often being part of a large machine; linkage.
Sedentary: characterized by or requiring a sitting posture
Predispose: to give an inclination or tendency to beforehand
Syndrome: a group of related or coincident things, events, actions, etc.