Vocabulary#5

Hubris(n.)- excessive pride or self-confidence; arrogance.
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Own Sentence- The kid was hubris about getting an A+ on the vocabulary test yesterday.

Quagmire(n.)- an area of miry or boggy ground whose surface yields under the tread; a bog.
Source sentence-"The image of the quagmire, frequently invoked in accounts of the war, owes something to this haphazard process."
Context Clues- logic the guy on family seem flabby and soft
Own Sentence- There is a quagmire on the "Family guy show" every Sunday night

Vociferous(adj.)- crying out noisily; clamorous.
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Context Clues- logic it has the Voc like in vocal
Own Sentence- The water buffalo made no vociferous when getting shot at.

Vocabulary

Feign(v.)- to represent fictitiously put on an appearance of
Source Sentnce- "The letter covered seventeen handwritten pages, its tone jumping from self-pity to anger to irony to quilt to a kind of freigned indifference." (pg 156)
Own Sentnce- Superman was a feign of America
Context clues- the book

Salvaged(n,v.)- the act of saving a ship or its cargo
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Own Sentnce- It was horrible but they were able to salvaged the cargo
Context clues- I use logic cause of the Discovery Channel when they did a show about the Titanic

Altercation(n.)- a heated or angry dispute; noisy argument or controversy
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Own Sentnce- The salemen got to an altercation with a customer
Context clues- logic from my life with the law

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.

Vocabulary

Stash (v.) to store in a usual secret place for future use
(pg. 40) Courage, I seemed to think, comes to us in a finite quantities, like on inheritance and by being a frugal and stashing it away and letting it earn interst..
Own Sentnce-I have a stash of chocalate bars under my bed
Context Clues I determine the conext clues was by using logic from the movie "Scar face"

Jingo(n.) a person who professes his or her patriotism loudly and excessively, favoring vigilant preparedness for war and an aggressive foreign policy; bellicose chauvinist.
(pg. 42) Or some dumb jingo in his hard hat and Bomb Hanoi button, or one of LBJ's pretty daughters,or Westmoreland's whole handsome family-- nephews and neices and baby grandson.
Own Sentnce- So my plea is to stop the journalistic jingo and to start to think and report.

Conext Clues -from the words around the word Christ and liberal

Summa cum laude(n.) with highest praise: used in diplomas to grant the highest of three special honors for grades above the average.
(pg. 41) I had the world dicked--Phi Beta Kappa and president of the student body and a full-ride scholarship for grad studies at Harvard.
Own Sentnce I graduated from Cal Poly Ponoma summa cum laude.
Context Clues I determine from conext clues from lokking words around and found the words full-ride scholarship.

Vocabulary

Monsoons (n.)
Definition-The seasonal wind of the Indian ocean and southern Asia, blowing from the southwest in summer and from the northeast in winter.
Original sentence- They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, humidity, the monsoons, the stinks of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity.
I used logic for this word cause of the context clues and i seen "Forest Gump" and he was in Vietnam war.
Own sentence-The Asiatic monsoon brings heavy rains to Southeast Asia in spring and summer.