Sittin’ on the Fence
Words for the
Indecisive
Due Monday, April 8
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.
- Ambiguous
- Ambivalent
- Apathetic
- Arbitrary
- Capricious
- Equivocate
- Indifferent
- Spontaneous
- Whimsical
It’s a Small World,
After All
Words for the
Insignificant
- Inconsequential
- Superficial
- Tenuous
- Trivial
She was apathetic to the plight of the bacon salesman; she'd found a new love, and feta never failed her.
ReplyDeleteI find your superficial claim of feta-love to be spurious and disingenuous; I'm certain you're hoarding bacon surreptitiously.
DeleteUh, yeah. I might need to dig up my old vocab pages to decipher that one :P
DeleteMy family does not comprehend that I am a whimsical person and simply cannot adhere to the monotonous lifestyle of homework and chores.
ReplyDeleteWhen I asked why our house was sacked, I got the ambiguous reply of, “I screwed up,” not answering my question at all.
ReplyDeleteSo I am not sure if our 'sentence' can actually be several sentences, but I liked the idea of this one, though I am not sure if it is right. I also wasn't sure if the second one is punctuated and such correctly.
ReplyDelete1) My spontaneity makes my friends laugh. After all, when I text them about my most recent dream, they find my comments most hilarious: “I love it when you have a dream, and while in it everything seems perfectly reasonable, but then you wake up, and you’re like, ‘why would cupcakes have jet packs?’”
2) My brother was ambivalent about getting a job; he wanted to earn money, however, he did not like to actually work for anything.
Of course it's okay to do extra work. :)
ReplyDeleteYour first sentence is punctuated perfectly, though a more appropriate question would be "Why *wouldn't* cupcakes have jet packs?"
Your second sentence contains a comma splice. Anybody know how to fix it?
I think it should be "My brother was ambivalent about getting a job - he wanted to earn money - however, (though with the dash "however seems unnecessary)he did not like to work for anything.
DeleteWhen I know that I have been caught red handed with my hand in something it shouldn’t have been I tend to equivocate about the truth of my predicament. Especially since I shouldn’t have been jumping on the bed, I mean the monkeys all fell off and bumped their heads.
DeleteThe solution is simpler than Kim suggests. Any other suggestions?
DeleteMy brother was ambivalent about getting a job; although he wanted to earn money, he did not like actually working for anything.
DeleteYay? Nay?
Yay! The semi-colon does the trick; you didn't need to change "however" to "although," but the change worked just fine.
DeleteMy coach was apathetic towards the amount of homework that I had tonight. He said soccer comes first.
ReplyDeleteTrue story.
I ambiguously stared at the two fro-yo dispensers, uncertain whether to pick the ginger lemon or huckleberry flavor.
ReplyDeleteSchool officials indifferently set the beginning of school at an outrageously early 7:40.
ReplyDeleteThe ambiguous leader had difficulty making many important decisions facing his people.
ReplyDeleteI am spontaneous in the decisions that I make; although some may cause trouble, I continuously choose to make them despite the consequences I may face.
ReplyDeleteOregon has quite capricious weather; one day it's a balmy seventy degrees and the next it could be a hailstorm.
ReplyDeleteAs Daniel Tolstrup walked into the room, the spontaneous applause was no surprise.
ReplyDeleteAttired in a black turtleneck and baret, the beatnik expressed his ideas through poetry which condemned 1950's society for being conformist and apathetic.
ReplyDeleteThe workers at the Horse Guards in London have to remain apathetic regardless of the odd faces that the tourists are making at them.
ReplyDeleteThe tenuous cloud posed no real threat due to it’s rather small and thin nature.
ReplyDeleteAfter a Sunday spent doing homework and a three hour long SAT prep course, I'm ambivalent about coming to school on Monday.
ReplyDeleteThe unpopular student was apathetic to the star athlete’s injury.
ReplyDeleteExcitement arose during his boring work day when the office worker’s pants spontaneously combusted.
ReplyDeleteThe whole family was ambivalent about the move to the countryside and the new school called Oregon City High School.
ReplyDeleteShe threw the ball to the first person she saw—an arbitrary decision that cost us the game.
ReplyDeleteHis YouTube videos were always whimsical, fantastically funny and left your hungry mouse searching for the next video.
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