Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Vocabualry

Rapture(n.)- ecstatic joy or delight; joyful ecstasy
Source sentence- "A haunted look, Rat said--partly terror, partly rapture."(pg. 105)
Context Clues- I used the words around the word rapture
OG Sentence- The people in the church felt the rapture of the pastor during the seminar.

Impassive(Adj.)- without emotion; apathetic; unmoved
Source sentence- "His eyes were flat and impassive."(pg. 60)
Context Clues- I thought about the movie "The Terminator" that he doesn't feel anything
OG Sentence- she was impassive when she heard the bad news.

Rectitude(n.)- rightness of principle or conduct; moral virtue.
Source Sentence- "If at the end of a war story you fell uplifted, or if you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been made the victim of a very old and terrible lie."(pg.68-69)
Context Clues- there are talking about the morals and things about it so I figure it was about the same thing too.
OG Sentence- The rectitude of her motives.

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