Monday, February 2, 2015

Vocab Five

OPTIONAL: Provide the definition of the following words. Include the dictionary definition and a translation of the dictionary definition into your own words. Write an original sentence for each. 

NOT OPTIONAL: Post one sentence as a comment; the sentence you post must include a properly punctuated colon. I repeat: your sentence must include a properly punctuated colon. You only need to post one sentence for the week, not one for each list.
You Say You Want a Revolution?
Words for the Downtrodden
Due Febraury 9

1. alienated
2. alliance
3. disparity
4. servile
5. suppressed

You are so Beautiful
Words for the Interior Decorator

6. embellish
7. florid
8. opulent
9. ornate
10. ostentatious
11. poignant

39 comments:

  1. There's only one true way to put ketchup on a hamburger: in ornate swirls and patterns that beautifully exemplify your elegance.

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  2. In all of the years I have known Abraham Windelehoo, I have found there is only one way to win an argument and make him florid: be a tattletale and tell his mother everything.

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  3. I believe Nate is very ostentatious: he decorates his hamburger with ketchup swirls in an attempt to impress people with his elegance.

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  4. I suppressed my thoughts and out burst on Nate's ketchup technique.

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  5. I promise one day my life will be opulent: I am talking no less than an eight digit bank account balance.

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  6. I think you used the word and colon correctly, however, I don't know if you actually need a comma before the word "and" in your second clause. I could be wrong.

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  7. The fact that people find Nate's ostentatiously ornate ketchup habits poignant is beyond me: he was just being florid, why alienate him?

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  8. She embellished the border of her paper with doodling: trees and flower sprouted all over her math assignment.

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  9. Each chocolate truffle in the florid box contained three essentials: overpowering flavor, a creamy filling, and a longing for more.

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  10. There was one reason Garrett was alienated from the group: his incessant talk of the Nissan GTR.

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  11. I don't know why people alienate me when I talk about the Nissan GT-R: it is the most florid and opulent supercar ever made.

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  12. I embellished my Eggo waffles in peanut butter and syrup as a mother would dress her newborn in cloths and silks: with delicate, tender hands.

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  13. It was about 12:30 when I realized both sides of Conor's and Garret's argument were embellished and that the Nissan GTR is neither good nor bad, rather it is simply unable to compete with the true mode of transportation, scooters.

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  14. My alliance forced me to drive the icky car away from the battle scene: it smelled bad, looked bad, drove badly, sounded bad, had a bad reputation, and was bad at heart.

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  15. Her poignant speech was a devastating reminder to us: not all eulogies are for the old.

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  16. Okay, here it is with a colon.


    I suppressed my thoughts and out bursts on Nate's ketchup technique: how could someone so smart do something like that?

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  17. Christmas traditions sometimes seem strange: I mean, why bring an extraordinarily large plant into you room and embellish it with candy?

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  18. After all these years, I figured out why I felt so alienated as a child: I was the victim of bullying on multiple occasions.

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  19. Am I using this right?

    The long hall was decorated floridly: large billowing drapes hung from every window, and pictures in elaborately decorated frames cluttered the walls.

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  20. Alliances were being broken on OCHS Survivor and that meant one thing: blindsides were about to happen.

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  21. Their alliance with their neighboring country was unthinkable: the two countries had been warring for years and to become friendly was unacceptable.

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  22. Perhaps Nate is trying to form an alliance of ketchup swirlers: an association of all who elegantly decorate hamburgers.

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  23. The vanilla cupcake was embellished with the following: colorful frosting, rainbow sprinkles, and tiny candies.

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  24. The gravel-shaped scar on my brother's forehead served as a poignant reminder: always tie your shoes before jumping off a fence.

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  25. The man has an opulent collection of cars: two Mercedes, two Range Rovers, and three giant trucks.

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  26. It was a normal bag room get together at Ben's house, until his sad news left a poignant feeling in the room: he is moving to Kentucky in a week.

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  27. The following unintentionally alienates my siblings: me, everything I do, and everything I don't do.

    "Alienates" in this sentence means: to cause someone to become unsympathetic or hostile.

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  28. As I tried to write a vocab sentence for my AP Language class, my parents suppressed my ability to think by shouting out sentence ideas: none of them even made sense.

    ~Holli C.

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  29. I have an ornate snow globe collection: five from Paris, three from Monaco, two from Southern France and one from the airport in Nice.

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  30. I didn't try to look ostentatious, but something dripped from my face that erased that thought from my mind: blood.
    -Mark Pedersen

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  31. Arthur was extremely irritated about how unservile Merlin was when he didn't wake him up that morning and asked the underlying question: Where was that clotpole?

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  32. In an effort to display his opulence, he opened his garage door to display his greatest pride: a four-cylinder 1994 Geo Metro in a beatiful baby blue.

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  33. A rumor spread that I had a cold; my fellow classmates immediately alienated me to avoid catching an illness.

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  34. There's an unpleasant disparity in the way the internet treats my students: clearly, it believes the following voices should be suppressed:

    Breana E:
    A great alliance requires the following: people, shared interests, and one goal.

    Luda V:
    Katerina was beautifully embellished: her hair was intricately laced with ribbons and delicate flowers.

    Maurie H:
    The Blazers late game collapse was a poignant sting to an already difficult day: The loss really knocked them back in the Western Conference standings.

    Whitney I:
    My brother and I have beautiful alliance: he completes my chores in exchange for my undivided chauffeuring services.

    Lexie E:
    There is one disparity between my sister and me: she is shy while I am outgoing.

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  35. Oops! I didn't mean to alienate these two writers:

    Emma A:
    She told us of her experience with narrowly surviving the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, and there was only one way to describe her story: poignant.

    Sequoia R:
    Everything in her room seemed to be embellished: sequined curtains, painted doorframe, studded bedpost, and an intricately carved dresser.

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  36. After being a server at Mike's, I know what it takes to be servile: patient and exuberant.

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  37. My sister and I have created an alliance: against my entire family.

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  38. The disparity of the two football players caused the smaller player to go down hard while the larger player was knocked unconscious: neither were quick to get up.

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