Crafty, Crafty
Words for Sneaking
Around
Due Friday, March 3rd
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. Post one sentence as a comment.
Bonus Challenge: Write all of your sentences about a paradise (or pair of dice, if you prefer).
- Astute
- Clandestine
- Coup
- Disingenuous
- Ruse
- Stratagem
- Surreptitiously
- Wary
- Wily
Katniss and Peeta used their “love” as a stratagem.
ReplyDeleteKennah Watts
Some students needed to develop complex stratagems in order to outwit the resistant blog:
ReplyDeleteIn order to get out of hard classes, I became very disingenuous while around my mother. Didn’t work too well, she made me take AP Lang.
Levi S.
I’m extremely wary about the effect AP classes have had on my sanity.
ReplyDeleteI surreptitiously snacked on cookies before dinner.
ReplyDeleteMarissa Levy
I'll surreptitiously post this comment while no one is looking. The blog won't mind, right?
ReplyDeleteMy sister is always loyal to me when she knows I’ve broken our house rules. She acts as disingenuous as possible so my parents can't get anything out of her.
Jordan C.
Wolf hunted with Raven. That was how it had always been. While Wolf padded across the forest floor and sniffed quickly for prey, Raven flew high above and searched astutely for danger, as it had always been. Whether it was the same wolf or the same raven, it always was Wolf and Raven, skilled together and effective together and wary together. Always.
ReplyDelete-Madi Schreiter, P.4
Perhaps we should stage a coup against the recalcitrant blog:
ReplyDeleteMarissa offered a disingenuous apology, showing she didn't actually feel bad at all- how rude!
Logan B.
Mr. Jordan surreptitiously scooped the coffee beans off of the floor and back into the bag, hoping no one would notice.
ReplyDelete-Ana Imes
😂😂😂
DeleteThree students glanced surreptitiously at their phones during the test to look up answers.
ReplyDeletePortia Bailey
From his increasingly clever and cunning reputation, he appears strikingly astute.
ReplyDeleteThe little boy surreptitiously creeps on his tip toes to the kitchen after bedtime in hopes of sneaking one more cookie without his mother noticing.
ReplyDeleteOnly the wiliest of humans can outsmart the blog:
ReplyDeleteMarissa’s stratagem for annoying Andrea involved being herself.
Andrea R.
(Marissa Approved)
He walked away from her without even a glance. It was almost as if it never happened, as if they had never happened. He might have but she would never forget their clandestine love.
ReplyDelete-Clara V
D-Day was very clandestine, so as to prevent moles from leaking the plans to the Germans and Italians.
ReplyDelete"Well, we're planning a coup, of course," she said with a shrug. "My brother cannot be allowed to hold the throne any longer."
ReplyDeleteThe students joked about staging a coup and overthrowing the school’s administration so they wouldn’t have to go to class.
ReplyDeleteA disingenuous double agent is the best double agent.
ReplyDeleteIn order to prank my siblings, I developed a complex stratagem.
ReplyDeleteCaine Young Period 4
The coup had slowly spread throughout the ranks of the army, as dissatisfaction and anger grew among the soldiers.
ReplyDeleteThe coup had slowly spread throughout the ranks of the army, as dissatisfaction and anger grew among the soldiers.
ReplyDeleteThe mother surreptitiously slipped peas into her boys mac and cheese.
ReplyDeleteAfter the bleachers collapsing on GMS Dance team, at their competition at Reynolds, injuring many girls. I'm wary of my comp this Saturday.
ReplyDeleteBut the business he participated in was clandestine.
ReplyDelete-Abby Jensen
Playing Monopoly requires an astute and multifaceted sense of judgement.
ReplyDeleteClandestine: Hillary's emails were sent in a clandestine manner.
ReplyDeleteI was wary of the road ahead of me; it looked dangerous and curvy.
ReplyDeleteI was wary of the man in the candy van.
ReplyDelete-Hailey Sumpter
The group of teens were clandestine about their whereabouts during the family vacation; they'd found a private cove to sneak off to at night.
ReplyDeleteThe astute question caught the teacher off guard, they hadn't expected anyone to care or understand enough to question him and now he was standing dumbfounded and stud-d-d-d-ering in front of the class.
ReplyDeleteThe wily Jenna sent this so surreptitiously I missed it!
ReplyDeleteEvery word spoken by anyone in this paradise of neon lights, colored chips, and everlasting alcohol was disingenuous.
Jenna G.