Overkill
Words for Going too
Far
Due Monday, January
15
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 word. Post one sentence as a comment below.
Required: The
sentence you post must include a correctly punctuated colon.
Bonus Challenge:
Post a sentence that includes an allusion to Greek mythology OR the 70s/80s era
band Styx.
- ebullience
- effusive
- egregiously
- flagrant
- frenetic
- gratuitous
- superfluous
In the Greek suburbs, the liberaly-educated-deprived, toga-wearing women were gossiping about the gratuitous event of the day: Kronos eating his children.
ReplyDelete-Evan Dodson, per. 5
Energy drinks usually make people feel: hyper, energized, ebullient, and tireless.
ReplyDelete-Brooke Donaca, Per.5
The family was filled with ebullience when they saw that their daughter had been blessed by the hand of Aphrodite, and was now the physical embodiment of one thing: beauty.
ReplyDelete- Christina Clothier, Period 4
On the doorstep, somebody had left something egregiously quick that the members found disgusting: A dead body.
ReplyDelete-Ian Roberts, p.5
The boy’s effusive reaction when he opened his present assured his mother that she had given him the greatest gift of all time: a Daisy Red Ryder BB gun.
ReplyDelete-Dominic Stevenson, per. 4
Only the most egregious Greeks spend their afterlives in Tartarus.
ReplyDeleteTo the Greeks, there was one place in the underworld they feared most: Tartarus.
DeleteThe ‘70s was defined by two things: inflation and the frenetic performances of rock n’ roll bands like Styx.
ReplyDelete- Dylan Magana, Period 4
Lawrence would always make gratuitous jokes in class and goof around causing him to earn his very own name: The Class Clown.
ReplyDeleteSarah Talley, per.4
She continued to ask superfluous questions towards her husband, even though she already knew the answer: Zeus and his affairs.
ReplyDelete-Rachael Durr, Period 5
There was one standard punishment after death for egregious acts in Greece: being thrown into the pit of Tartarus.
ReplyDeleteMy little brother is a frenetic dinosaur: he destroys toys, rips pages out of books, and draws on the wall.
ReplyDeleteAs the king stepped through the lowly servants door he knew exactly what to do: effusively greet him.
ReplyDelete-Nemo Gilpin, Period 4
Her diet restrictions were superfluous: no eating after 5PM, 200 calories per meal, and absolutely no meat.
ReplyDelete-Linnea Nilsson, Period 4
Although belief in Greek Mythology is largely nonexistent now days it left a legacy: a superfluous charisma that corporations can market and leech off of for big profits!
ReplyDeleteCalvin only listens to two types of music, both full of gratuitous language: rap and Hip-Hop.
ReplyDelete-Maggie Ellis, Per 4
The attacker was called for a flagrant foul after she “shot” the ball and hit one of the defenders in the shin which resulted in an unpleasant surprise: a large and obviously painful bruise.
ReplyDelete-Kylie Felix, period 5
Marie always bought a superfluous amount of granola bars: chocolate chip, oatmeal, and peanut butter.
ReplyDeleteWhen a teacher explains an answer it’s superfluous: to repeat again when it’s already been answered.
ReplyDelete“The gratuitous nature of Atlas’s punishment should have garnered pity, yet none of the Olympians cared for his eternal strife; the Olympians never forgave the titan Atlas for siding against them in the Titanomachy.”
ReplyDelete-Lucas Lundy
The extra ingredients were superfluous: butter, margarine, and lard were not all needed.
ReplyDelete-Roxann Barber, Period 5
Entering the Styx concert, the teens experience a powerful feeling: ebullience.
ReplyDelete-Riley Pundyk, Period 5
The internet would like to apologize effusively to Lillie for refusing to post the following sentence:
ReplyDeleteThey rejoiced with great ebullience, for they had been rewarded for the good lives they had led on Earth with the greatest possible gift for the dead: renewed life in Elysium.
Lillie B
Though the parents had been worried about their child's reaction to the move, the ebullience from him showed the most important thing in their family: sticking together.
ReplyDeleteNatural disasters are egregious: they create destruction in the most beautiful manner.
ReplyDelete- Camille Slaughter, per. 4
People often regard Hades as the "evil" god, but look over another who is just as, if not more, egregious than him: Zeus.
ReplyDeleteShe listened to the song Renegade with ebullience; head-banging and screaming the lyrics with unmatched enthusiasm, shocking those in the car with her by her sheer volume alone.
ReplyDeleteWithout warning, Mark’s victim frenetically listed his demands which included: don’t be rude, quit stealing people’s toys, and stop pulling pigtails.
ReplyDelete-Nicole Lambert P.4
Persephone read all of the letters from her mother Demeter asking her to come home, but her superfluous writing only convinced her of one thing: she would never willingly leave Hades.
ReplyDeleteHermes has been portrayed as many things: ambiguous, frenetic, and even deceptive.
ReplyDeleteThetis had made an egregious error: she was too flippant with her protection and did not cover her son head to toe with the waters from the river of styx, for she had left his heel, the one from which she had held him, uncovered.
ReplyDeleteShe beamed with ebullience when she had unwrapped the gift she had hoped for: a brand new Apple laptop.
ReplyDeleteMatti White P. 5
There is one word that will always stand out as being superfluous to me no: very.
ReplyDelete-Mitchell K
The exploration crew were filled with ebullience once they discovered the artifact they had been searching for: Zeus’ lightning bolt.
ReplyDeleteJada Dixon
per 4
Even though the mother of Achilles was told not to let her sons whole body get dipped into the styx, she flagrantly did it anyway: With Gusto
ReplyDeleteAres's ebullience worried Zeus for he knew only one thing would come of it: War.
ReplyDeleteHer outfit was superfluous: there were bows,ribbons, sparkles everywhere.
ReplyDeleteEnergy drinks usually make people feel these side effects: hyper, energized, ebullient, and tireless.
ReplyDelete-Brooke Donaca, Per.5
The superfluous diction in his essay about plants caused his readers to lose track of the story and become rather confused.
ReplyDeletewar is described in many ways:superfluous, violent, and grotesque.
ReplyDeleteI'd describe my mother as an effusive individual, she hardly ever smiles.
ReplyDeleteHis expressions, both facial and bodily, could be expressed in one word: effusive.
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