Friday, February 24, 2017

Vocab Heaven


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).
  1. Astute
  2. Clandestine
  3. Coup
  4. Disingenuous
  5. Ruse
  6. Stratagem
  7. Surreptitiously
  8. Wary
  9. Wily

31 comments:

  1. Katniss and Peeta used their “love” as a stratagem.
    Kennah Watts

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  2. Some students needed to develop complex stratagems in order to outwit the resistant blog:

    In 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.

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  3. I’m extremely wary about the effect AP classes have had on my sanity.

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  4. I surreptitiously snacked on cookies before dinner.

    Marissa Levy

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  5. I'll surreptitiously post this comment while no one is looking. The blog won't mind, right?

    My 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.

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  6. 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.

    -Madi Schreiter, P.4

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  7. Perhaps we should stage a coup against the recalcitrant blog:

    Marissa offered a disingenuous apology, showing she didn't actually feel bad at all- how rude!
    Logan B.

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  8. Mr. Jordan surreptitiously scooped the coffee beans off of the floor and back into the bag, hoping no one would notice.
    -Ana Imes

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  9. Three students glanced surreptitiously at their phones during the test to look up answers.
    Portia Bailey

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  10. From his increasingly clever and cunning reputation, he appears strikingly astute.

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  11. The little boy surreptitiously creeps on his tip toes to the kitchen after bedtime in hopes of sneaking one more cookie without his mother noticing.

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  12. Only the wiliest of humans can outsmart the blog:

    Marissa’s stratagem for annoying Andrea involved being herself.
    Andrea R.
    (Marissa Approved)

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  13. 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.
    -Clara V

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  14. D-Day was very clandestine, so as to prevent moles from leaking the plans to the Germans and Italians.

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  15. "Well, we're planning a coup, of course," she said with a shrug. "My brother cannot be allowed to hold the throne any longer."

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  16. The students joked about staging a coup and overthrowing the school’s administration so they wouldn’t have to go to class.

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  17. A disingenuous double agent is the best double agent.

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  18. In order to prank my siblings, I developed a complex stratagem.

    Caine Young Period 4

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  19. The coup had slowly spread throughout the ranks of the army, as dissatisfaction and anger grew among the soldiers.

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  20. The coup had slowly spread throughout the ranks of the army, as dissatisfaction and anger grew among the soldiers.

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  21. The mother surreptitiously slipped peas into her boys mac and cheese.

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  22. After the bleachers collapsing on GMS Dance team, at their competition at Reynolds, injuring many girls. I'm wary of my comp this Saturday.

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  23. But the business he participated in was clandestine.
    -Abby Jensen

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  24. Playing Monopoly requires an astute and multifaceted sense of judgement.

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  25. Clandestine: Hillary's emails were sent in a clandestine manner.

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  26. I was wary of the road ahead of me; it looked dangerous and curvy.

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  27. I was wary of the man in the candy van.
    -Hailey Sumpter

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  28. 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.

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  29. The 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.

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  30. The wily Jenna sent this so surreptitiously I missed it!

    Every word spoken by anyone in this paradise of neon lights, colored chips, and everlasting alcohol was disingenuous.
    Jenna G.

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