Vocabulary

 

                                           For The Land of Stories: A Grimm Warning

     Words:                                                                   Definition:                                                                                 Synonyms:

     

    disheveled            (of a person's hair, clothes, or appearance) untidy; disordered....................................scruffy

 

      Colonel                 the commanding officer of a regiment, below brigadier general..............................lieuntenant

                                                                                                                                                                                                    colonel

                                                                                                                                                                                                   

 Merveilleuses          The Incroyables and their female counter parts, the Merveilleuses were members.......no synonym

                                 of a fashionable aristocratic subculture in Paris during the French directory... and so on.

 

      tavern                 a place where liquors are sold to be consumed on the premises....................................alehouse         

 

     muffled                to cover or supress a sound to tone down...................................................................... flat      

   

   ultimatums           a final proposition or condition offered to end a dispute............................................no synonym    

 

       refuge                 a safe place, a place to hide.....................................................................................hideaway

 

   narcissistic            having an excessive or erotic interest in one's self and one's physical........................self-obsessed

                                    appearance

 

   therapeutic           curative, healing, good for personal growth and health...............................................curative

 

  gargantuan          enormous.................................................................................................................gigantic

 

   silhouette              a two-dimentional representation of the outline of an object, as a cut out or...................contour

                                   configurational drawing, uniformly filled in the black, especially a black paper,

                                   miniature cutout of the outlines of a famous persons face.

 

   concierge              a person who has charge of the entrance of  a building and is often the owner's..........attendant

                                   representative; door keeper.

 

 asymmetrical        not identical on both sides of a central line; unsymmetrical; lacking symmetry.............awry

 

     lunged                 a sudden forward thrust, as with a sword or knife; stab.........................................no synonym

 

   Lieutenant            a junior commissioned officer in the armed forces, fire service, or law enforcement.........abettor

 

     frenzy                  extreme mental agitation; wild excitement or derangement......................................aberration

 

   seamless               smoothly continuous or uniform in quality; combine in an inconspicuous way..........no synonym

 

    albino                   an animal or plant with marked deficiency in pigmentation...................................no synonym

 

   spitefully              full of spite or malice; showing spite; malicious; malevolent; venomous.....................malice

 

    scuttled               To run with quick, hasty steps; scurry.......................................................................scurry

 

    acquired             To come into posession or ownership of; get as ones own...........................................attained

 

   cackling               To laugh in a shrill, broken manor.......................................................................no synonym

 

                                         For The Books of Beggining: The Emerald Atlas

 

         Word:                                                          Analogy or Metephor:

 

    dispatched                                  I answered the guestion as if I dispatched from my mom

 

        deftly                                                            Deftly:clever::sweet:nice

 

      desolate                                                     Desolate:bleak::tough:hard

 

       turrets                             My hope was a bombed turret. part of my hope fell, the rest followed.

 

      indulged                                                  Indulged:interst::blazing:hot

 

     daunting                                            Daunting:intimidate::proclaim:announce

 

     extricate                                              Extricate:disburden::clear:easily heard

                                                                                                                                                                                                                    

                                                      Words that I did not use an anlaogy or metephor:

 

                                                                         insignia

                                                                        amiably

                                                                     reproachfully

                                                                      primordial

                                                                         slvicing

                                                                         scoured

                                                                     instantaneous

                                                                         fissures

                                                                        rheumy

                                                                       traipsing

                                                                        unslung

                                                                          borne

                                                                         ebbing

                                                                         legions

                                                                          horde

                                                                           prat

                                                                        inadible

                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

 

                                                 Counting By 7's

 

                                               Figurative Language:

 

 What is said:                                     Figurative language type:                     What does it mean?:           

 

She rotates her shell.                                             Metephor                         She goes from not being interested and not

                                                                                                                           listening that much, to being fasinated/intruiged

                                                                                                                           and really listening.

                                                                                                                         

What ever hard casing                                        Metephor                         She doesn't let the bad things life throws at her, 

that protects her from life...                                                                           hit her.

 

The plant will have given                                     Metephor                         It will give the explanation and beauty of the

birth to the future...                                                                                        future and future of the garden. It will represent

                                                                                                                          the idea of it.

 

...had rattled his noble                                         Metephor                         To do something that is likely to annoy them or

cage.                                                                                                                 unsettle them.

 

She was some kind of wild                                 Metephor                           She was surprising, excitied, and changed her

tiger unleashed into the                                                                                 emotions unexpectedly/quickly.

airless room.

 

Vocabulary words:                Words I used:                             Sentences:

• wiring                                  longevity             I walked like I had longevity after I heard the news  

• memorabilia                                                    that made me turn a corner.

• mystic                                 absorption            I was a flower using absorption when I finally saw

• truancy                                                             my mother after what felt like forever.

• longevity                             duplicity              My mind had  duplicity when it was telling me I

• absorption                                                        was doing the right thing.  

• binges                                   lacquer               Somehow, when I heard the bad news, it didn't affect

• duplicitous                                                       me as I thought it would.It was like I had a thick coat

• lacquers                                                           of lacquer protecting me.

• corpuscle                            competent             Wow your really good at that!  Your a competent

• tography                                                         animal when your playing soccer!

• composure                         composure            Despite the wild animals ripping their school work, 

• antioxidant                                                    (it was the last day of school) Brian retained his

• aura                                                                 composure.

• competent  

 

 

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